Small World

It's a small world after-all. Friends, co-workers and acquaintances all know that I have 3 main interests in life. I spend most of my time and energy in life talking about:

1. Rock Climbing
2. Politics
3. Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

For shits and giggles I read Planet Gnome and Planet Ubuntu every day during lunch. I enjoy using the products produced by these people and I learn about some interesting new products coming up before they make it into the main distributions. I don't (typically) know any of these people, I just enjoy reading about the technology.

As a result of my interests, or rather, non-interests; I usually skip/skim the conference photos and discussions of food, personal stories, etc. I'm there for my inner geek. Well today while browsing through Planet Ubuntu, I saw the following picture on Cody Somerville's blog.

HI NICK!

Imagine my surprise when I realized the sleeping guy in the photo is an old friend of mine from college! Years ago he and I lived in the same house with some other great guys who I have lost contact with. When we lived together I was a pretty rank neophyte linux user and couldn't convince my techie friend Nick that Linux was the way of the future. Imagine my surprise and joy when I found that Nick is now a contributor to Ubuntu Linux (YEAH!) and has a much more complete Launchpad page than I do.

I guess this gives me some new motivation to use Launchpad to host that SPSS -> R-CRAN translation I've been talking about. But that means I need to get off of here and get back to work so I have something to post.

The moral of the story? It's a small, small world. (and everyone should use Linux like my friend Nick!)