Coincidences
One of my co-workers is a regular ACen and Otakon attendee. (He’s been attending ACen for about four or five years.)
This isn’t particularly remarkable in and of itself; lots of people go to anime conventions. As he remarked, it is a little weird that he’s never seen me at ACen before, but, well, ACen’s pretty huge and it’s not that odd to not run into someone there, even over the span of years.
The more remarkable part is that he’s not only familiar with anime music videos, but also a fan of them. More remarkable than that is that he’s seen AMV Hell 0. (I have no idea what his reaction to it was.)
But, no, the really remarkable part is that he’s an AMV editor, or at least talks like one. (He doesn’t know I’ve been involved with AMVs before. Yet, anyway.) I don’t know his username on a-m-v.org.
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I think it’s interesting. How often do you cross paths with people who share such geeky (to be frank) interests?
Well, maybe it’s actually pretty common in tech industries, I don’t know. I’m actually hoping it is common — someone with no especially geeky interests probably wouldn’t do so well in high-tech.