email excerpt: On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:13:24PM -0400, freeside wrote ( Read more... )

I first met Freeside as a sophomore in high school. He lived down the hall -- new kid, quiet, smart -- though, in this school saying someone was smart was like saying they were male. It was one of those things that was taken for granted, though, of course, being smart didn't mean that you were a nerd or a geek, at least not in the classic sense ( Read more... )