Pen-Elayne on the Web

Old Friends

Aaron Hawkins had a great idea - since search engine queries often lead people to blogs that have nothing to do with what they're searching for (for instance, my last 20 include "everybody loves raymond transcript download", "KROSS KULCHAH" and "smeagle wallpaper" among others), why not use this amazing power for good? So he put out a list of names of friends with whom he's lost touch, in the hopes that someone who knows any of them will do a name search and be led to Aaron, or that the people in question will Google their own names, resulting in a re-contact. With that in mind, I want to give a shout-out into the aether towards Bill-Dale Marcinko, my best friend from college whom I miss tremendously. He's #2 on my list of "people I wish had weblogs," although chances are his blog would, like his (in)famous zines, be mostly a hoax. But, you know, a brilliant hoax. Anyway, it's worth a try. You out there anywhere, Billy?