How do we know each other?

[cos]

Since a lot of people got different usernames on dreamwidth than they
had on LiveJournal (some because they could finally get the name they
always wanted that was taken on LJ, some because their LJ name was
already taken on DW, and some because they just felt like a change),
I now see more names on my reading page without remembering who they
are, even though I probably know them.

Maybe that means it's a good time for that old livejournal game from
a decade ago, where people post comments saying how we met or got to
know each other, online or off. As a side effect, I'll also figure
out which real-world person goes with that username, for those whose
dreamwidth usernames I don't know or remember.

Wanna?

Comments

[l33tminion]

I'm pretty sure I first met you through poly-Boston stuff (the Diesel Cafe meetups), and then you joined ITA Software about a year after I did.

Same username

[khatru.livejournal.com]

But it was mostly a matter of hanging with elboids, iirc. Also, you and my son (age 5ish?) and a woman who is now in California are in a picture together, identified as your family. This caused great confusion to someone who found the photo while looking for someone in California, and recognized my son.

:D

Re: Same username

[cos]

I remember exactly which picture you mean, but I did not remember whose child it was. Now I do.

[drwex]

I always fail at this game because I cannot remember how and where we met.

[vvalkyri]

wellesley computer room ;)

Brandeis

[pygment]

When you were visiting friends who lived at Ziv and some of that quad were taking the LSATS. We watched Star Trek Next Gen together as a group and picked on the drunks who came back from the post LSAT party.

[squirrelitude]

Poly-Boston at Diesel, I believe.

[tylik]

You stayed in my house in Woodinville (outside of Seattle.)

Of course, I don't even live in WA anymore.

[cos]

... and I do now :)

[jered]

I'm not sure. Maybe something SIPB or general geek related? It's all a blur as I get older. Maybe you remember?

[cos]

Actually, I do remember: Either the first MIT moxy fruvous concert you organized, or before that through ceelove who used to stay with me when she was up in Boston to see their shows in New England.

[jered]

Aha! Yes, almost certainly Früvous-related. Good memory!

sauergeek=sauergeek

[sauergeek]

...and Leftbank.

[bluepapercup]

I no longer remember how we met - but I believe i was either through Crystal or perhaps Erica?

[cos]

Huh, I don't remember... whichever of them you knew first, I suspect.

I see we were interacting on LJ as early as 2003, which doesn't help much, because people were just getting on LJ then.

[kiya]

Poly-Boston.

[miraclaire]

We met at a Knitcetera hosted by coraline

[kirin]

I've dropped an 'n' which I had on LJ because this name wasn't available... excitement.

But anyway, DaP.

Brandeis

[goljerp]

How/where did we meet? Well, it was at Brandeis, probably through the wierdo coalition / TNG in the Castle / Illuminati afterwards. Of course, I wasn't Goljerp then (that happened in Grad School), but I was Goljerp on LJ and am here, too. Whee!

(BTW, for those who know me, I prefer to keep my real name unlinked from "goljerp" for a bit of semi-plausible deniability. Sure, I know, it's only paper-thin, but I'd like to keep my delusions, OK?)

[ckd]

Wait...we've met? :-D

(IRC back in the day, of course.)

[42itous]

I think the first time I met you was at the fundraiser Jacob Lefton organized for his high school, which was also the first time I heard [of] Dresden Dolls. Am I right? I remember you talking politics toward the end of the event, over by the school building.

And of course I've seen you at various dance events and no doubt also at Diesel although I don't specifically remember that. It's been a loooong time since I left Diesel Tuesdays in favor of square dancing.

[tshuma]

I never can remember. I assume it was at the Disaster House at some point, perhaps at a party there.