Completely random comment. I was in a meeting probably about 20 years ago in the 2000s. I forget with what company. Anyone, one of the folks introduced himself as Vinod. I looked at his last name. Valloppillil. I was like "Oh hey - are you the halloween documents guy?". He was completely spooked - looked like a cat had walked over his grave. Seemed like something in his past he wanted to forget. But I thought it was pretty awesome - like having a minor celebrity to talk to when I was a fairly junior engineer. Not quite as awesome as having my copy of Applied Cryptography autographed by Bruce Schnier, but still kinda cool.

Anyway - if you are still out there working in Tech Vinod - hope everything is going well.