So here’s how GT is stacking up against all the schools I particularly despise so far.  Georgia Tech is currently ranked 13th in the AP Poll.

UGA: 15th
Penn State: not ranked
Duke: not ranked
UNC: not ranked

Ah its a good season.

One of the guys I work with said that Randstad (the temping agency) was trying to get into a contract deal with us and consequently offered to get us Thrashers tickets for the game last night.  I said sure, I’d like to go, so he got me two tickets.

Little did I know they were the “private suite with free beer, wine and food” type tickets.  Lauren and I are walking around lost like “Where the hell is portal A15?” We meander all the way around and some concierge looking guy says “Looking for the stairs?” and we show him the tickets and he goes “Oh, sir, your suite is right here behind us”.  Lauren and I are like, booyah son, thats RIGHT.

I’ve never sat in those private suites before, and I must say, its quite the way to watch a sporting event.  Of course the free imported beer from the fridge that kept restocking itself didn’t hurt.  So I met some nice people from Randstad that I’ll never see again, watched the Thrashers lose their season opener in a shootout, and walked home through the park instead of sitting in traffic like all the other suckers who don’t live downtown.  Really not a bad way to start the weekend at all.

Nat Friedman, the creator of ximian and somewhat of a personal hero of mine, has been dying.  Not in real life (I hope) but his online presence.  Back in the day, nat was all over the place.  He’d blog about giving ximian talks in france, skiing in the alps, riding his bike 200 miles along the eastern seaboard, all sorts of rad things.

But slowly, like a picture of Marty from Back To the Future, good ole Nat’s been disappearing.  First it was the month of March which went completely un-blogged.  Then we got a few more tidbits of info, then another blank month in May.  June saw two last posts, and since then, silence.

A month back I went looking for his oft-updated Flickr account, and found it to be simply gone.  There were a few pictures from other people’s galleries that had tagged him, but the repository of Nat pictures was just not to be found.

And today, visiting his site, his masthead of a picture is gone, leaving a simple text page in its place.  If this keeps up, even that shall soon be gone.

I feel like someone, somewhere, should be playing a midi version of “Taps”.