Thanks. And. Screwing around back then ...
Thanks guys/gals - er, no guys after all - for the hi/hello. Good deal! Definitely cheered me up, felt somewhat overwhelmed there. Sadly, I'm still adjusting to working and taking classes. Anyway, in posting order [drum roll...]
cawees
kissmyascii
gryphon
qhrizteena
nie048
cascadeberry*
rianessa
reelpersona
polishedvisage
aileen
*Heehee. Thanks for the response to Aileen =). Actually, thanks for a lot more =D
3 yrs ago - working before college wrap-up
I was wondering what the hell I was up to 3 years ago, and sure enough, the archive paid off. Feel free to take a glimpse of 2001 entries from the 16th, 17th, and 18th. Thanks to the threads, each one's relatively funny, and sheds a bit'a light on me back then. It was around the time before PeopleSupport [expedia.com team] was transitioned to Manila, where it started off in St. Louis. Actually, come to think ... operating costs were steep in Los Angeles, so they moved to St. Louis. Then to Manila.
And with that, people I knew at the time...
Chris McGowan (a friend, then 19 years old) was this Linux expert and philosophical chap. A genius, really, who knew open source in and out, always rambling on about Mandrake, SuSE, and kernel 2.4 stability. His idea of fun would be coding or reading /. on a Friday night for leisure. Of course, with a sixpack of Heineken on standby, he said, hehe.
Great guy, no pretense, spoke highly of his gf. We talked about web dev a lot. Touch based recently - still in Saint Louis, but taking a break from undergrad. Oh well, I'm sure he'll get back into the game sometime. Genii like him will make it far, no doubt.
Don't really know about Kris and Wesley, completely lost touch w/ these guys. We'd go out for drinks at least twice a week, but then came commencement and the move-away - and well, w/o much common ground afterwards, hmn ... people move on Ü
Nunchakus. A helluva weapon
I suddenly recalled being stopped by a cop when I was 10. Was walking down to the corner store to buy chips, wielding Joey's plastic pair from halloween. Hehe, the cop thought the 'chucks were real, and ended up laughing since he was caught off guard. And hell, my brother-in-law did teach me around that age with real ones, so I wasn't clueless on how to swing 'em. Always pretending to be Bruce Lee. This I'm aware of, since I still I let out loud freakish a la Bruce Lee shrieks occasionally, hehe.
Well. I love hardwood speedchucks w/ the chain mounted to a ball-bearing housing. It's spring now (!), so gotta practice outside again sometime.