Wait… you mean everyone’s not addicted to the Internet?
Posted on February 5, 2009 in I Need A Lint Roller for These Warm Fuzzies by DM
This week I’ve been on a little odyssey that started innocently enough on Facebook – I found there were groups for my old middle and high schools (Merrill and Roosevelt in Des Moines), so I started friending several people I knew from that time. One had posted pages out of the 10th grade yearbook to his profile, and I spent a chunk of time clicking through, remembering the faces and getting quite a laugh over how young we all looked.
All of that led me to try to find a few individuals who, turns out, not only were not on Facebook or MySpace, they didn’t seem to be anywhere on the Internet! (Or at least, if they are, they’re buried in search results and not easily found.)
So, just a shout-out because you didn’t turn up in my latest (admittedly shallow) round of Googling:
(James) Steve Kennedy – a fun and funny kid who once dragged me into a hidden room at Merrill to play his favorite comedy album for me. I don’t think he has any idea how obsessed I became with Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements.”
Mike Barberio – brilliant and true friend starting in about fourth grade, inventor of some kind of clock that used little green lights for the minutes, red for the hours… also made these cool disco light boxes, one of which I bought for my basement… and made me a coffin for my dead cat. (Twisted, yes, but we understood each other.) He moved to Washington in 10th grade and later worked for IBM or MIT or someplace engineering/computer-related.
If you guys ever Google yourselves, maybe this post will come up. If that happens, send me an email! I hope life is good, and would love to say hello. (Maybe you can teach me that whole “ignore the Internet” thing…?)
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