I HAVE FRIENDS
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Neil |
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Hah, you Limey Brit. If it were not for Neil, I would be pretty fat...er I mean well rounded. Every other day I get a wake-up call from Neil that pretty much goes like this, "WAKE UP, YOU SCUM, YOU WEAKLING, GET UP, GET UP AND WORK OUT THOSE LITTLE GIRLIE MUSCLES" Hey now, I bench more than you do. Neil's the most go-gettinest person I know. Every group has to have that one optimist. If we were stuck on some barren island in the middle of who cares where, Neil'd be the first to talk a few seagulls into giving us a lift and if that didn't work, I'm sure he'd figure a way to produce Guinness from coconuts and sand. Neil's a black belt too but i'm pretty sure that I can take him. | ||
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Daniel C. |
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Here's a friend from the past that is back in the present. I'm not sure I remember why we stopped speaking but at least we reconnected after 13 years and seemed to hit it off once more. He doesn't like beer that much which I'm working on the cure as I type this. What a great thing it is to reconnect with old friends even after so much time has past. Just for clarification, back in the day, he was called Little Dan and I, of course was Big Dan. He's currently gotten me hooked on Stargate SG-1 so, if I haven't been blogging lately, it's because I'm offworld. | ||
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ClickBooth Crew |
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Some of the most talented people that I have ever worked with work at ClickBooth. I didn't work there for long, maybe 5 months or so, but while I worked there, I had a blast. A day doesn't go by when I find my self thinking about the Company, the people and the technical team. | ||
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Brian V. |
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Without Brian, I would not have made it through Sarasota High School. I am pretty sure that we never once ate in the cafeteria. We used to eat our lunches outside of Mrs. Simon's room and have endless conversations about computers. Infact, before what is now commonplace, Brian and I held alternate lives on various computer systems back then. Boy did we get into some trouble. We were the cause of all of the payphones being removed from Sarasota High's campus. Not too many know the story, but the FBI wasn't very happy with us. With the exception of those listed immediately above, I only told one other person about what had actually happened. | ||
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Levi W. |
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Levi is cool. He's the Superman. He's the gamemaster. I wish some people could have paid him in a timely manner so that he didn't have to move to G-ville. Still, I'd bet he's rockin G-ville pretty hard and has a girlfriend or three on each arm. I can't wait to afford him on some projects so that I can ship his ass back here for some beer and brainstorming. | ||
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Tim C. |
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Another brother and really awesome friend. This guy is the nicest guy on the planet. This doesn't get him anywhere. In fact, it makes him prone to being taken advantage of. I always give him bad advice and fortunately he never follows it. Hah, the great last advice given to Tim was, "If you say this, the girl will surely be yours". To date, he has not taken my advice. What was the statement I gave him? One of the Levels will surely tell. No, I myself have not tried the advice I gave to Tim. Trust me though, as skeptical as he is about what to say to women, he agreed that my advice would work extremely well. Hey ladies, say you like Monty Python, and he's yours. | ||
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Dr. DRE |
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I have always been known to have the Iron liver. Yeah, I've been known to throw down several, um, dozen or so, pitchers. There's always that one in the group that's labelled the introvert and pour some dat Jekyll juice down him and he transforms into that extroverted pal everyone wants to be around. Then again, there have been rare occasion when it was probably not a good idea to be in close proximity to me (couch incident). Well, I digress. If Dan is to beer then Dr. DRE is to liquor and beer. This man has the adamantium liver. We'd consume 11 pitchers in 4-5 hours and he'd be the one driving me home [actually happened]. (DISCLAIMER: I no longer do this. I am referring to the distant past, only ever so slightly visibile through the brain fog. Um, this sort of nonsense happened before I was married. I am almost fully reformed now.) He doesn't have a drinking problem. On the contrary, he appears just fine. It's the alcohol supply that needs to be afraid. Very afraid. (Oh, he's not reformed yet. i've been working on him) | ||
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Tracy T. |
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Tracy is one of the coolest girls on the planet. She digs rocks. Literally. Before Jimi and I married. Um, wait, before I married and before Jimi married, separate people, we hung out all of the time. Since I married I lost communication with her. It's my fault. I never treat people the way they should be treated. Tracy doesn't know it, but she got me through a vitally important period in my life. Had it not been for her, I might have self-destructed. Tracy and I go way back, as far back as Jeff and I. Man, I am old. | ||
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Jimi G. |
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My Best Friend. I cannot prove it yet, but I think we are brothers. Believe it or not, I am more responsible then he is although he is catching up. Like me, he traded his silly lifestyle for a wife and children (3 and 1 on the way). His firebird has now been replaced by a minivan and a winnebago. When we are not aggrivating our spouses, we are out finding new and exciting ways to complain about the same old stuff. His jedi whining skills have not yet matured like mine, but the force is with him. No, he doesn't know the answers to any of the Level questions, but I assure you. he will be the first to figure out what they are. With the exception of Level 10. Even I don't have the answer to Level 10. | ||
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Chris K. |
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Some Uzo, some cars in ditches, some other interesting events. Those were the days. Telenet. Courier HST modems. BBS's. Gosh, it seems like another dimension, but I assure you, we were there. CK has created some of the best companies and products on the planet. His latest venture is call Kaneva which, in my opinion, makes Second Life a bore. | ||
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Jason R. |
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Jerry Sinefeld once said that when you reach a certain point in your life, you are no longer capable of making new friends. Primarily because, they have to learn all the things that your other friends already know and because of this, new friends usually become annoying. This is not the case with Jason. He's as mellow as me and he loves beer. Man, is that all it takes to be my friend? Jason is rocking some serious artistic ninja skills. I'll have to put up a gallery for all of my talented friends who are into art. | ||
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Jeff J. |
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We're related as well. I am sure. I don't talk to him as often as I want to, but I love the guy. He and I have countless stories of endless fun. Every time I say, "I remember this one time", or "I ate what?" I instantly think of Jeff. He's just recently married to an awesome woman as well. I just hope he doesn't grow up as fast as Jimi and I did. I dedicate Level 1's question to him. | ||
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John P. |
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Talk about someone who's done pretty much everything possible. Pilot, paramedic, cop, firefighter, leader of the Fu Kung Ninja resistance, director, producer, restaurant owner, film school teacher and probably more. He's the epitome of "Been there, done that". You know, I had to look "epitome" up. At first I thought an epitome was that there razor deal women use. I was way off but I was glad to be able to use the word in a sentence anyway. | ||
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Bill E. |
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Shhhhh. He's a mystery. Best darn pool player I know. And just when you finally get to the point where you think that you'll win...you won't. If you think that's pretty bad, he kicks butt at chess too. Who'd a thunk awesome pool and chess go hand in hand. One of these days, I will win. | ||
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Kyle M. |
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I've known Kyle since I was 15 or 16 years old. He's the fastest guitarist that I've personally seen. He's a lover of art and music. Kyle has had some of the best parties that I've ever been to. Dark side and light side Kyle's fun either way. He lives way too far to make it home in one piece after partying and I'm much too married now to spend the night on his floor. | ||
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Jerry S. |
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Our wives always try to make us go out together but we're always busy. Actually, usually i'm the busy one. I fear that if we do go out, we'll just get into trouble and our wives will conspire punishment against us. Jerry said something the other day that could quite possibly be true. "You're afraid of success" I'll have to meditate upon those words. He may be right. | ||
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