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and now for the recitation of names.
Dec. 1st, 2006 02:21 amReunion of many many Lycos people, going back the 11 years the company has been around. (11 years? That doesn't sound so long.) About 400 people came. I enjoyed the party because I got to see a good number of ex-coworkers. Since I liked nearly everybody I'd worked with, this was a good thing. :-)
The party was in a building on one of roads that made up my back-way to Lycos. Fitting, eh?
Several people gave me a bit of a hard time about having turned down Lycos's inquiry recently. This did make me feel squirmy inside. On the other hand, it was in the vein of compliment.
I saw Benny, and "Stevey Mac", and Karina & Diana, and Jenn A, and Joe (of course). Kai very briefly. Pusateri -- who is now a construction manager and starting building some data center in PA. Patrick apparently is marrying/married to the woman Diana set him up with whom I never met. He was not there, though. Yicuan from Quote recognized me and pulled me over to say hi, and I also spoke with Bin. (Except that I can't remember how to spell their names, err.) Speaking of name spelling, $cott Money was normal "Scott" on his name-tag. Tsk -- even his username had had the dollar sign as I recalled. Oh, which reminds me that Karina and others expressed dismay at my blue/green-less hair. It happens that I don't miss it right now. The new shorter cut is good.
Curt D, and Howie (setting Wired up with TT was a learning experience), the latter is still at Lycos. I saw Gray looking relaxed in a Lycos Network t-shirt, but never made it to say hi to him. He was my neighbor on the 7th floor.
Steve tells me that Jay left JumpTap and is now doing [i forget?]. RJ is at LexisNexis leading a globally dispersed team of 20. I did not see Lori there, and was disappointed by that. No Karim or Tariq either.
There was a youngish guy named Michael I think, who chatted hi to me like he knew me, but I don't think he did. Made me think of cousin bar mitzvahs. I think he was just taking advantage of the atmosphere.
I met the guy whose phone extension I took over when I started there: Bill Cava! That was funny.
I saw J Callagee, the controller whose credit card info I used to have memorized (for integration testing purposes only!). She had entered her home town ZIP instead of the office's one -- this caused odd problems in some places but not in others.
There were other people I was pleased to see, too, but that's enough.
The host of the party was Bob Davis, a founder.
We all had pre-made name tags. Very good! Good job, Bob.
And if you made it thru all those names above (they're here to remind me, not for name-dropping), here's some MORE NAMES to entertain you!
The party was in a building on one of roads that made up my back-way to Lycos. Fitting, eh?
Several people gave me a bit of a hard time about having turned down Lycos's inquiry recently. This did make me feel squirmy inside. On the other hand, it was in the vein of compliment.
I saw Benny, and "Stevey Mac", and Karina & Diana, and Jenn A, and Joe (of course). Kai very briefly. Pusateri -- who is now a construction manager and starting building some data center in PA. Patrick apparently is marrying/married to the woman Diana set him up with whom I never met. He was not there, though. Yicuan from Quote recognized me and pulled me over to say hi, and I also spoke with Bin. (Except that I can't remember how to spell their names, err.) Speaking of name spelling, $cott Money was normal "Scott" on his name-tag. Tsk -- even his username had had the dollar sign as I recalled. Oh, which reminds me that Karina and others expressed dismay at my blue/green-less hair. It happens that I don't miss it right now. The new shorter cut is good.
Curt D, and Howie (setting Wired up with TT was a learning experience), the latter is still at Lycos. I saw Gray looking relaxed in a Lycos Network t-shirt, but never made it to say hi to him. He was my neighbor on the 7th floor.
Steve tells me that Jay left JumpTap and is now doing [i forget?]. RJ is at LexisNexis leading a globally dispersed team of 20. I did not see Lori there, and was disappointed by that. No Karim or Tariq either.
There was a youngish guy named Michael I think, who chatted hi to me like he knew me, but I don't think he did. Made me think of cousin bar mitzvahs. I think he was just taking advantage of the atmosphere.
I met the guy whose phone extension I took over when I started there: Bill Cava! That was funny.
I saw J Callagee, the controller whose credit card info I used to have memorized (for integration testing purposes only!). She had entered her home town ZIP instead of the office's one -- this caused odd problems in some places but not in others.
There were other people I was pleased to see, too, but that's enough.
The host of the party was Bob Davis, a founder.
We all had pre-made name tags. Very good! Good job, Bob.
And if you made it thru all those names above (they're here to remind me, not for name-dropping), here's some MORE NAMES to entertain you!
