So, in the way of extremely weird and random news, I was found recently by a very old online friend from about 10 years ago.  I used to be very into a game called Jedi Knight II.  You could play it online, and it was a blast, especially because you could duel people with lightsabers.

I had many a fun time killing a few hours in the evenings during college by signing on and kicking butt, and I made a few friends, one of the most memorable of whom was Vetter.  

Somehow, after all this time, he managed to find me on Facebook.  Technically he did it a few months ago, but I check Facebook so little I never saw his message.  Hopefully he'll get the chance to reply back, but I just had to post something somewhere about how amazingly random the world can be, and how awesome it is that he was able to find me based on a character name and an IM conversation from 10 years ago.

As a related aside, he had this very interesting process on his profile.  Apparently it's how to create your own band.  Not sure if it's popular on Facebook, so forgive me if this is a bit repetitive, but I found it amusing.  Here are the instructions, and the result for me.

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it to FB with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in.