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Kevin Lange: I have two classes with this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lynn
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Siliconmaster482: ccool
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Siliconmaster482: *cool
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Kevin Lange: Despite how much every employee at Cisco probably hates him, he's a great guy.
(10:28:08 PM)
Kevin Lange: I took the current photo on the Wikipedia article as a joke.
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Siliconmaster482: lmao
(10:29:45 PM)
Kevin Lange: And completely reformatted the page...
(10:29:52 PM)
Kevin Lange: And added the note that he's currently at UIUC...
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Siliconmaster482: nice work
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Kevin Lange: If you go the edit right before OasisGames started touching it, you'll see how I've made it much better.
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Kevin Lange: Anyway, yeah, the picture joke...
(10:31:20 PM)
Kevin Lange: Or rather, here's the complete story:
(10:31:51 PM)
Kevin Lange: I'm walking out of an introduction to computer science at UIUC meeting at the Siebel Center (look it up if you want, I'll just say "it's THE CS building at UIUC")...
(10:33:03 PM)
Kevin Lange: There's food, drink, etc., but I'm not hungry - and now thank god I never went to get food or this probably wouldn't have happened - so I walk to the end of the room closest to the ACM room (because I'm going to join the ACM), guy sits down next to me, no idea who he is, but he obviously looks a little older...
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Kevin Lange: ACM guys get invited to join the party, sit down at the table...
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Kevin Lange: (because it's closest)
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Kevin Lange: We start talking, they ask where we're all from (there was one other person at the table, someone from my res. hall), and we get through some basic introductions, and they get to Mike, and he's like "Google Michael Hall"
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Siliconmaster482: haha
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Kevin Lange: And they're like, what? And he shows them his name tag.
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Kevin Lange: No one really knows who he is still, it's not so much a name thing rather it's the event itself that was famous...
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Kevin Lange: But we all have iphones.
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Siliconmaster482: heh
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Siliconmaster482: LOL
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Kevin Lange: So we google, hop on Wikipedia...
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Kevin Lange: And holy shit look at this guy.
(10:35:51 PM)
Kevin Lange: First thing we did after figuring out how awesome this guy was start critiquing the shitpoor things on his wiki entry (Because people do stupid things there).
(10:36:22 PM)
Kevin Lange: I made the sarcastic comic "nice picture" - because we all know pictures on wikipedia are rarely good. I think Linus Torvalds is the only good picture I've seen on Wikipedia...
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Kevin Lange: He says "Not really, it's terrible" and I'm like "Let's replace it.", and he's like "ha, sure."
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Siliconmaster482: haha
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Kevin Lange: So he stands up, I take a picture, tweet it, pull out my netbook and upload it to wikipedia.
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Siliconmaster482: noice
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Kevin Lange: Then came this three hour discussion about all sorts of things, starting with his life story.
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Kevin Lange: Then we moved into the ACM room, and he started talking about stupid things people do in computing (it started out as a discussion on the ACM's OS project, then turned into how documentation sucks, specifications are never properly implemented, etc... then went into how he used to screw people over who were asking homework questions in IRC channels back in the day...)
(10:38:47 PM)
Kevin Lange: Unfortunately, I had to leave, it was getting late and I had class early in the morning today...
(10:39:07 PM)
Kevin Lange: Get back to my dorm, revamped the wikipage because I was bored... went to sleep, etc. etc...
(10:39:47 PM)
Kevin Lange: Walk down to the Siebel Center for my first class... sit down at a table that was left out from the party the night before (I was a half hour early), went on digg, slashdot, etc...
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Kevin Lange: Guess who's at the coffee shop right behind me?
(10:40:40 PM)
Kevin Lange: Mike Lynn. Sits down next to me. Small talk, "which class are you here for" "CS173" "Oh, same here."... we walk in, walk up to the front row and sit there.
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Kevin Lange: Class, etc. blah blah.
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Siliconmaster482: lol
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Kevin Lange: Right before the next class he's like "You're not by any chance in CS231 are you?" "Yeah." - we sit there for the next class.
(10:41:51 PM)
Kevin Lange: So, yeah, I have two lectures in a row with him on monday and wednesday and one on friday.
(10:42:00 PM)
Kevin Lange: This definitely boosts my hacker cred.
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Kevin Lange: I'll be "good friends" with him by the end of the semester.
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Siliconmaster482: niiiiice
