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  1. …in reply to @bradfitz
    @bradfitz It all started with a game of Durak. I was a High School freshman and my friend Kathryn had an exchange student from Moscow. A whole bunch of my friends studies Russian. The textbook was amazing. I got sucked in.
    1. …in reply to @obra
      @bradfitz Ended up spending a month in Moscow my senior year of high school, majoring in Russian Studies, and studying abroad in Moscow my junior year at Wesleyan.
      1. …in reply to @obra
        @bradfitz Lived in a dorm, ate hatchipuri at a local mafia hangout, went to a rave at the Childrens' Palace, bought a bootleg copy of Oracle 7i for Linux under a bridge, bribed a handyman with a bottle of Stoli, got email with UUCP w/a modem connected to the phone line with alligator clips
        1. …in reply to @obra
          @bradfitz Went to a tech tradeshow. Someone found out I knew Macs. They asked if I had a tie. Got offered $200 to spend a day at Renaissance Capital helping them with a Mac problem. Turned out that the team there just wanted to know where to get Cracks & Numbers.
        2. …in reply to @obra
          @bradfitz You know. Normal stuff.