"was finally able to secure a spot and in fact still remember Nivi not making it onto the list in time and plaintively writing on the page, "Can't Nivi come?".
I remember this first party, pretty sure Nivi was living at the house at the time.
And I ended up "crashing" at the house for 4 years.
Yeah, it was you! I couldn't remember your full name or Omnidrive for some reason, but I remember you were sleeping in one of the bedrooms at the time. Cool, I'll update the post.
The full story is told in my next post, which should be done tomorrow and will be entitled "How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition".
'"So, when Arrington started hosting BBQs for anyone working on a startup who might want to stop buy and do a little show and tell, I thought, "man, I got to go to one of those."'
s/stop buy/stop by/
Fixed! It's amazing that no matter how carefully I check for mistakes like that I never seem to be able to catch them all.
Had an english teacher explain a technique for slowing down enough so that you can catch those mistakes. Read the piece, word by word, in reverse (last word first). Then re-read sentence by sentence in reverse. Paragraphs, etc.