>Here's a couple of questions for the community of readers out there:
>How'd you guys hear about UF/etc? And how many of you are there? :)

Actually, my sister ran around WPI in 1988, and encountered Wedge Rats then, returning home to tell me of them later. I grew up in the Boston area, became an anime fan at Boston University and the University of Pittsburgh, and later moved on to California...

where my pal TechMav was gleefully naming machines at the startup where he works after Asuka, Rei, Gendou... Grendel? Moloch? Lucifer?

"hey, those aren't NGE names..."

"oh, no, they ain't. Haven't seen NGE. I'm namin' 'em after Neon *Exodus* Evangelion characters."

"what?"

And that was how I got hooked, Mav thoughfully providing me with a hardcopy of Undoc's Core and Hopelessly Lost.

Although, come to think of it, an ex-boyfriend of mine had *conniptions* about DJ at one point and I honestly had no idea what he was talking about. I still don't think he's actually read NXE, though I may be wrong.

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Silicon Valley, CA