Shoutouts to (in no particular order):
Paul, Ava, Ben, Kelsey, Rushi, Sheenika, Jonathan, Dan, Chris, Mooneer, Stephi, Hanna, Scott, Danny, David, Nik, Jess, Brad, Bethany, D.J., Sheree, Aaron, Lily, Eric G, Auston, Mark “The Knife” “The River” Gahagan, Meg, Chi, Amrit, Tam, Amado, Rego, James, Kim, Amy, Proud, Sharon, Christine, Michael, Melissa, Christie, Eric B-D, Billy, Cody, Dylan, Brandon, Iron Jeff, The Swede, Ryan, Cano, KG, Gabe, Cha-cha, Mary (my other mother), Bilow, Flo (“zis country would be so much betteir if it weir cohvered wis a meeteir of snow!”), Kris, Amanda, Lizzie, Rose, Brigette, Kerry, Marla, Kristjiana, Iain, Mike, Van, everyone else from HS, John and Elaine, Brian, Chris, Ted, Danny, everyone else from UCSD, Bill Clabby, Jeanette Ibarra, Professors Chu, Ord, Tullsen, Sato, Ito, Pineda, and Rhodes, Gabriele, Pat, Matsumiya-sensei (wherever you are), the Big Domy (you know who the Big Domy is), and of course Teresa, Rick, Amy, and Jessie. If, somehow, I forgot you, you know you’re on there too.
Further corporate propers to:
Apple Core OS team, 2 Dogs Coffee (Morro Bay), Eventful, Fern Canyon Press (and all their endeavours), Microsoft Xbox 360 team (all right, ya done good), Nintendo, Xilinx (I hate your software but I love your hardware), most of UCSD, Google, all the backbone network operators, OmniGroup, Matz, _why, and the Ruby core team, Linux kernel developers, Red Hat/Fedora, every single man woman and child who has contributed to Debian, NoMachine, irssi.org, Freenode, GNU Project, SureFire, Streamlight, Wes Hinkle’s San Diego Volvo (Service department), and of course Apple circa 1976, for the dream and the spirit.
All of these people touched me in 2006, almost universally for the better, and made my life what it was. I look forward seeing you all in 2007.