by Larry on September 21, 2008
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I went to a wedding reception in South Seattle last night. It was a great party, a very eclectic crowd spread out throughout a classically updated old Seattle house. A couple of hours into the festivities, a familiar-looking guy walked up an greeted me. It was my old friend Rob H., a guy I met [...]
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My neighbor Griggs told me about a nice house-share available for rent in Wedgewood. I went over to check it out and in the course of my conversation with Aaron, the owner, I discovered that he works part-time in an office on the same floor as my new massage office in the Medical Dental Building. [...]
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Once again, my worlds collide. Earlier today I was chatting with Rand Fishkin at the SMX Advanced conference. It was fun to finally connect with the local search engine marketing wizard (and former office neighbor of my friend Danielle). I wasn’t star-struck, but it was a little surreal having a face-to-face [...]
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by Larry on October 25, 2007
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I went to a web usability presentation at Adobe down in Fremont tonight. Steve Krug, the presenter, mentioned that he was a Boston College grad. I know a bunch of BC alumni from my days in NYC, so I went up and chatted with him afterwards. Sure enough, he knows, and is in fact [...]
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This week one current neighbor (Lyle) and an old neighbor (John) contacted me out of the blue with questions about how to get started studying hand drums. This qualifies as a small-world story because 1) I hadn’t connected with John (still a very down-to-earth guy even though he’s now a big-shot software entrepreneur) in several [...]
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The small-world stories just keep rolling in. This one is particularly unlikely and random.
I got a call from a young woman named Rebecca today asking about buying a massage gift certificate for a friend she had stayed with during a recent visit to Seattle. During our conversation she mentioned that she had recently graduated [...]
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