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====== Kray ====== ===== Recruitment ===== I grew up on a steady diet of //GAMES// and, while it existed, //The Four-Star Puzzler//; since the latter ran some flat-like puzzles, and the former mentioned something about the NPL at some point, I was dimly aware of the existence of the organization all along. However, such memories lay dormant in my mind until July of 1996. [[Btnirn]] (who I knew from Harvard as well as via the general young math-nerd network to which a number of NPLers belong) and I were sharing a house over the summer in Princeton, but the night I arrived, he was at the [[cons:1996:photos|Chicago convention]], as I was informed by our housemates. The next morning, I was awakened at about 5 AM by a commotion downstairs --they had returned! "They" being--I think, though I was pretty groggy at the time--[[Btnirn]], [[aldesuda|Al de Suda]] and [[lunchboy|Lunch Boy]], who had just driven back from Chicago. (If anyone who knows is reading this, feel free to correct me!) I didn't give it too much thought at the time except to conclude (correctly) that NPL was a forum for collective insanity. Aside from [[Btnirn]]'s prodigious long-distance bills for the rest of the summer, this incident didn't have much of an effect on my life until I decided to go to the [[misc:acpt1998|Stamford crossword tournament]] the following spring. I asked [[Btnirn]] about it, but it was going to be his first time too, so he couldn't answer many of my questions. He did warn me that I would be swamped by NPLers, as indeed I was. I guess I succumbed to the peer pressure, and joined shortly thereafter. //First Issue//: Feb 1997 ===== Recruits ===== None. ===== Nom ===== No, it's not a homonym on the supercomputer company, and it's not (intentionally) four letters appearing in order in my full name. The K represents either of my initials, and "ray" is the meaning of my first name in Sanskrit. ==== Combinoms ==== No data. ===== Offices ===== No data.