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My Papal Connection
Y’ever get bitch-slapped by reality? I’m still rubbing my jaw over this one.
I’m watching the noontime Webcast of my local news. Along comes some dumb human interest story about some Internet geek who secured the domain name BenedictXVI.com. Some guy in Florida named Rogers Cadenhead.
WHAAAT?!?!
Yeah, Rogers Cadenhead. Florida. Author of technical reference books.
Yup. Same guy. Same guy who was with DargonZine from July 1989 through September 1996, then briefly again from June 1999 to January 2000. Same guy who wrote the stories “Endgame”, plus “The Dwarf 1” and “The Dwarf 2”. You can see his bio page here, or go to his own Web site.
The television story had a brief interview with him, wherein he talked about getting the domain, and what he might do with it. Actually you can read about it all over the news, but here’s the CNN article.
How often do you see that? Some old friend suddenly popping up on the national news? I’m flabbergasted!