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Small World Story #696

by Larry on September 21, 2008

in Personal

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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Small World Story #695

by Larry on June 17, 2008

in Personal

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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Small World Story #694

by Larry on June 4, 2008

in Internet Stuff

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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Small World Story #651

by Larry on October 25, 2007

in Personal

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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Small World Story #637

by Larry on March 26, 2007

in Personal

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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