Small world

[ocelot]

Playing around on Davis Wiki, koyote and I discovered they had an IRC channel.

On this IRC channel, we met tarzxf.

Then we ran into him at Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's, where he recognized us because I was wearing the Davis Wiki shirt which I'd won (well, Leif won actually, but it is too big for him) the night before at the Linux User Group of Davis meeting, where the wiki happened to be the topic.

koyote friended his LJ. He read our profiles, and asked how we knew funjon, kikikimi, zenshadow and snapdad (old IRC friends from elsewhere). Turns out he worked with them.

And then it turned out that he had also worked with koyote before koyote and I met.

Then I read through his journal, and found a link to an article about a guy who he'd gone to high school with, who had died in a plane crash recently. This guy was the first friend I made in Davis. He left a while ago, and this was the first any of us here had heard about him dying.

So yeah, small world.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

He knows darkmoon, who was involved with a local friend of mine and who worked with my sister in Sacramento.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

We've met darkmoon as well, at an LJ meetup.

[tarzxf.livejournal.com]

In fact, I worked with darkmoon at JPSNet, and dr_stein as well.

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Almost as wacky as me getting to know of, and talking to Gemmy on IRC back in 95 while living in Australia, then in 98 living in the same university residence as her, half a world away in Canada :)

[funjon.livejournal.com]

I miss gemmy :(

[funjon.livejournal.com]

Yep. tarzxf and I had a bit of a falling out for a few years, but I'm glad we've patched things up.

He's pretty damn cool.