Friday Two

[ornoth]

Here’s two questions from today’s Friday Fives.

What is your nearest lake or river?

The nearest body of water is the River Charles, which is less than 1200 feet away from both home and work. And I’m a mile and a half from the ocean at Boston Harbor.
 

How many people are on your instant messenger buddy list?

As of right now, I use Trillian to sign onto 10 different IM systems:

	3		Jabber
	2		IRC
	1		AOL
	1		Yahoo!
	1		MSN
	1		ICQ
	1		Rendezvous

I presently have 495 people in my buddy list.

	105		former colleagues at Sapient,
	100		people at Optaros,
	61		close friends from various places,
	54		present or former DargonZine writers,
	44		friends through LiveJournal,
	37		clients,
	36		Where’s Georgers,
	25		former coworkers at Bus Innovation,
	13		friends of friends, and
	20		other people.

By IM system, they break down as follows:

	259		AOL
	140		Jabber
	57		Yahoo!
	22		Microsoft
	16		ICQ
	1		IRC

Of course, some of those numbers are a bit off. The Jabber number includes a lot of people I have never explicitly friended (mostly Optaros staff), and the IRC number is short by a number of folks.