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Hi, my name is Eben, and I'm a geek.

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I live in an apartment in Cambridge with my old college roomate thablueguy.

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Cambridge is part of greater Boston. I'm from Connecticut originally, but I moved to Boston largely because my best friend sleetfall (also from Connecticut originally) settled down here. He went to college in Waltham, which is also sort of near Boston. A lot of the time I don't really like Boston, but other times I do.

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Since moving up here I've made some new friends:

• euchaotic and fly_nimue_fly went to college with sleetfall and have become friends of mine.
• digitalmcq, dystopiac, human_typhoon, onthejohn, playinggodagain and skyshroud_ace I know sort of through my former roommate war_pug, except also sort of through my present roommate thablueguy, without whom I probably wouldn't even know war_pug.

thablueguy grew up in Sudbury, which is also sort of near Boston.

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I also met and befriended foreign_devilry, hamsterprophecy and locke61dv all by myself.

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Speaking of college, I myself went to college at Northwestern University, just outside of Chicago, Illinois. I made a lot of good friends at college.

• _glass_house_, adampb, attackmonkey, bobbler, bornofstardust, dork_parade, dubsivorytower, erzulie, herod_the_nut, jrdameonhv, king_biscuit, lassarina, manslayerliz, night_eidolon, oberndorf, sabrielrose and timeshaper all went to Northwestern, too.
• cassielsander, celeloriel, inediblebuddha, keystroke, off_coloratura, pax_malificus, rollick and zerbie didn't go to Northwestern, but I befriended them while I was in college anyway.
• loopygirl did go to Northwestern, but not while I was there.
• The same is true of a_leprechaun, except she went after I did instead of before.

Most of these people still live in Chicago and I'm jealous.

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I also have a few old friends from Connecticut kicking around.

• I went to high school with kittysweetheart, syganzychick, tabascosea and theshanakee (who, as it turns out, went to college with foreign_devilry -- small world, right?)
• kailunkat and lady_eleret grew up in my home town but went to a different school -- the same one sleetfall attended, since he and I met when we were 8 years old and managed to somehow stay friends despite being at different schools for grades 6 through 12.
• devringalbrath went to college in Connecticut, and I met him through syganzychick while I was living at home after I graduated.

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Some people, like juineve, I met on the internet and subsequently have become "real life" friends with. Others, like demiurgent, theferrett and weds, are just sort of tentative internet acquaintances.

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Other people are just sort of random and/or long stories.

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lady_eleret, spreadnparanoia and tabascosea are all ex-girlfriends of mine. Those are also sort of long stories.

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Confused? Try reading 100 random things about me from 2004. It's probably not any less confusing, but at least its stuff about me instead of the people I know. You could also always just Facebook me.

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