Unrelated to this post, but I just thought that I'd mention that the topic of you randomly came up on an IRC channel mostly containing Finnish CS/math majors but also some Americans (and one Russian). Which was seriously weird.

22:11 <@arcatan> does wren work with you, btw?
22:11 <@lucidian> who is wren?
22:11 <@arcatan> nwf clearly knows her
22:11 <@ksotala> I think I might know wren
22:12 <@ksotala> Oddly enough
22:12 <@lucidian> nwf did tell me about a wren who once worked here.
22:12 <@arcatan> right
22:13 <@ksotala> Are we talking about the person behind http://winterkoninkje.dreamwidth.org/ ?
22:13 <@arcatan> yeah
22:13 <@ksotala> Huh, the world is tiny
22:13 <@lucidian> this is all new to me, but if it's the wren who used to work here, then yeah, nwf knows her
22:14 <@ksotala> This is seriously weird
22:14 <@ksotala> Like to me wren was this random person who I met because she was reading some transhumanist LiveJournal community where I posted waaay back
22:15 <@Lor> I recognize the name from haskell lists waaay back.
22:15 <@arcatan> i know her from haskell, too
22:15 <@lucidian> (hmm maybe I should not be speaking on nwf's behalf, explaining that he's not ordinary American, and saying who he knows.)
22:15 <@lucidian> (hopefully he'll return soon.)
22:15 <@arcatan> :P
22:15 <@ksotala> (nwf is gone, but you telepathically know that he knows wren?)
22:17 <@ksotala> (Oh, you said that he mentioned her earlier)
22:17 <@lucidian> I have heard the name "wren" come up in tales of former lab members
22:18 <@lucidian> I don't know the details of wren's affiliation with our lab though.
22:19 <@ksotala> I need to send wren a copy of this conversation, obv without specifying who any of you are
22:19 <@ksotala> To maximize the confusion