Since I subscribe to the RSS feed of the San Diego Blog, I’ve seen that they’re planning a get-together of local bloggers. I’d really like to go, but I don’t know if I could make a evening social hour (or three.) But then I saw that they are holding a lunchtime meet as well, so I signed up.

While posting my RSVP comment, I thought of how the old San Diego Connection BBS used to have regular meets, and tossed in a comment asking if any old SDC members would be there. It seems an excellent opportunity to catch up with old friends after the Internet killed the idea of local BBS groups socializing online. Not-so-incidentally, it was how I met my wife, Raquel, or Sinamon as she was known then.

That comment lead me to wonder, in that hyperlinking non-linear thinking way, whether there was a way to hook up with old SDC’ers, and a quick search found plenty of links, even a user at SlashDot. I wasted time I don’t have to look at a few of them and even registered at one BBS nostalgia site, even though only one old member of SDC was signed up there as well. But it occurred to me that if I wanted to find them, it would behoove me to be able to be found – and thus this post. Google should have it indexed within a couple of days.

If you were also a member of SDC and would like to get in touch with me, my contact information is posted at this blog. I’d love to hear from you. I was Mate, and I can’t for the life of me remember my user number, but is was in the 1200’s and I got plenty of comments from other users about the former owner of the number, who must have been a particularly kinky female (it was an adults-only site.) I wasn’t a significant influence at SDC – unless you count the fact that I sort of sneaked in there and walked off with the hottest chick in the place. Sinamon and I were also pretty good friends with Twin Peaks – a real mover and shaker, who used to host some pretty hot SDC parties at her home. There’s no easy way to put this, but Debi passed away a couple of years ago from what I believe was a complication from the bariatric surgery that ended her signature largeness and changed her life completely. We still miss her.

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