[meme] Curious about friends? (ganked from squigglz)

[pne]

1. Go to my userinfo page.
2. Pick one person on my friends list you're curious about.
3. Comment with their username.
4. And I will tell all about them*.
5. Now post this in your journal, see who is curious about whom.

*DISCLAIMER: No guarantees that there will be much info for some, and there will never be anything mentioned that is overly personal. I promise.

And I should add: many of the users on my friends list I know only casually, so there'll not likely be much for anyone.

Comments

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

zompist

zompist

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah, zompist! He's Mark Rosenfelder.

I first came across him because he maintained the FAQ for the Usenet newsgroup sci.lang. I later returned because of the constructed languages and the virtual world (Almea) he created -- first for a D&D campaign and later fleshed out considerably. I was "into" Verdurian (his most well-developed languages) for quite a while but haven't found/made time for Almeology in the past few years.

I don't know why he calls himself zompist. I think it was a handle from a role-playing game, but I don't know whether it has a meaning or not. His domain is zompist.com (after the provider that hosted his site, tezcat.com, closed up shop, he got himself a domain name of his own so that the URL would be stable).

[joyitude.livejournal.com]

subbes

subbes

[pne.livejournal.com]

I first came across subbes in a couple of posts to the mailing list of London Perl Mongers. I think she had a link to her web site in her sig and a link to her LiveJournal on that site. I read her LiveJournal occasionally and eventually decided to get a journal of my own. She gave me the invite code I used to create my first account here. (I still have that account but don't use it often. pne came a little later.)

She's an English girl who's just finished her degree in Miami University in Ohio and is now moving/has moved to Florida.

[fridoline.livejournal.com]

sovereigna

sovereigna

[pne.livejournal.com]

I met Sovereigna through the invitecodes community, I think, back when you still needed an invite code to create an account. I gave her a code just a couple of days before they were abolished, so she ended up not being able to use it after all.

She's a girl in Australia. She had eye surgery done a little while back to help her vision.

Re: sovereigna

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

lol- funny the things you remember :P

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

slowfox

slowfox

[pne.livejournal.com]

Don't really know him.

I added him a while back when he was posting "the balloon polls" -- see his userinfo for information and links to some of them. schnurble linked to some of the individual posts and I found them fun, so I added slowfox to keep abreast of any new ones he'd post.

He hasn't posted anything new recently, though.

[kake]

livredor

livredor

[pne.livejournal.com]

Liv! I met her through LiveJournal support.

I don't know that much about her, though. I believe she's from Scotland or from the north of England (though that may merely be where she studied). Recently finished her PhD in, I believe, biology or something similar. Jewish, and fairly observant I believe.

...I suck at getting to know people, I think. (Or at least, remembering things about them.)

[nitaq.livejournal.com]

sonjaaa

sonjaaa

[pne.livejournal.com]

Sonja Elen Kisa. Translator from Canada. I think I came across her through the minimalistic constructed language Toki Pona, and/or through her pages on basic Cantonese phrases.

Re: sonjaaa

[nitaq.livejournal.com]

Just caught my eye because I know a guy we call Svenjaaa! ;)