About five years ago, I got to know Matt and Brian at the Big-O Software forums, due to the then-awesome AIM addon, AIM+. Last night, we finally met in person.
Matt, who’s from Georgia Tech, was out here in Southern California on business with a coworker for almost a whole week. Last night was the night we decided to meet up and have some dinner. The evening started off funky. The initial explanation to Matt’s coworker and his friend was that we met each other through the internet. Um, yeah.
The straight story: We got to know each other through some tech forums. We’re basically all geeks, except for Sarah (not as much), who’s currently Brian’s girlfriend. Brian has some forums now which we sporadically post in.
We met in Santa Monica, went to the Promenade, walked around, and ate at Houston’s.
All in all, they’re all pretty cool. I won’t see Matt anytime soon, but hopefully Brian and Sarah weren’t put off by my wackiness and we’ll hang out again. Not sure how else to explain it, but it’s awesome to meet people who I’ve only known through the tubes, right? I hope I do more of that kind of thing in the future. :)










