"Do You Remember Meeeeeeeeeeme"

[dr4b]

Hi, I answered in zqfmbg and megami's journals so in theory I have to post this here. And in turn if you answer, like every other ANSI Standard Meme, you post it in yours. Etc.

"Add a comment to this journal telling me what you remember about first meeting me (online most certainly counts; if you have a choice between online and in person, I'll request the most amusing :-) I'll respond to each comment with my memories of you."

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[jvinocur.livejournal.com]

I arrived at PGSS '97 in the back seat of my parents' car, and before I'd even gotten out all the way, this bouncy TA-looking person looks at me curiously and goes "Jeff?"

It turns out they'd memorized our ID photos ahead of time to be able to greet us and help unload. Thus began an enormously fun five weeks, ending up with Deanna taking us on a 3 a.m. tour of the unseen parts of CMU.

for jeff to print 'f' did jeff print fprint or did jeff print fprintf?

[dr4b]

Man, I pulled that stunt on so many people that day that it's hard for me to even remember which students I did or didn't get right. (I had the highest percentage of all the TAs though, even Jeff Temple... they were all astounded how I'd know *everyone's* name as of like the 2nd or 3rd day of the program!)

Anyway, the way I remember first really talking to you a lot is twofold:

1) You were in my team project.

2) You wrote down EVERY FRICKIN' THING I SAID! AND PUT IT IN A QUOTE FILE!!!! AAAAH!!! :)

You were the first to really call me Processor Five on a regular basis, IIRC (and probably one of the few people left who still remembers that as one of my nicknames). I remember how totally goofy it was hanging out with you and Keith Bonawitz, and Ben Ingram, the latter two I have not heard from since that PGSS year, I think. Every year there were students who'd blow you away with how much CS stuff they knew, and you were definitely one of them.

Good times, good times... and you really are one of the few students from that year I've really kept in touch with, even if it's sometimes just for things like "Jeff, why on earth did someone from Cornell email me complaining that they read my quote file and wasted two hours?" Or "Doesn't everybody know Deanna?"