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.