For whatever reason, I thought the Yahoo club originated in 1999. But it was in August 2000 when I first met Gazoo, RGM, POC, Beej and Rod at a chain pizza restaurant at Embarcadero 2 that has long since moved on.
And I remember meeting Dave for the first time at Chevy's near the same location with a larger group a couple of months later.
I had known Gaz since late 1996 (we were mutually one of each others first friends upon moving to the city that year), and I was definitely at the Pizzeria Uno event, so we must have met as well!
You may have - it's been awhile. It was during that era that we hung out with the likes of eujean, pefanie, razstrelnikov.... who else am I forgetting?
I was trying to recall Rastrelnikov's handle. I have clear memories of my first encounter with PoC that night.
There was a barbeque hosted by Geoff a couple years later at which Eujean & Alicat were seated side by side, and began reminiscing about which neighborhood in the city they'd lived in, and eventually they realized they'd gone to the same elem school, had the same 2nd grade teacher, lived on the same block and finally - given that Ali is a few years older - that Ali had babysat for Eujean.
One of my all-time favorite small world stories.
