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and now for the recitation of names.
Reunion 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!