Part of it is obvious: Like many sons of the '80s, I came of age with a prefabricated crush on Meg Ryan, thanks largely to her appearances in such films as Top Gun, The Presidio, Armed and Dangerous, and Innerspace. (Especially The Presidio. Rawr.)

But a bigger part of it stems from the fact that Zoner knew about the above, and one day in the summer of 1993, while I was working on HL3, he walked up and handed me a random magazine he'd found somewhere.

This magazine.

The rest is history, albeit of a particularly minor sort.

I was digging around in a bunch of old papers and whatnot today, and there was the cover from the July 1993 issue of Premiere, stuck in between a couple of other random things. It's somehow managed to stay with me through... what... seven moves over 15 years, including two cross-country ones and a couple of periods of technical homelessness in between. You can still see where I cut the corners off it with a knife rather than try to remove the tape I'd used to stick it to the wall by my desk in our old apartment on Elm Street in Worcester.

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>You can still see where I cut the corners
>off it with a knife rather than try to remove the tape I'd used to
>stick it to the wall by my desk in our old apartment on Elm Street in
>Worcester.
>

And here I thought you'd merely acquired it from the same source the Battlestar Galactica uses for their books and papers. ;-p

Oh, hell yeah.

A crush which has just reasserted itself, due to this image. (Daaaamn.)

Thanks and sympathies.