Re: Congrats!

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Steven Chan <http://www..edu/~steven>
 > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 21:30:02 -0700
 >
 > hey robert, thanks for sending me that!
 > 
 > I think I know some people in these areas you specified:
 >  * Computer Security
 > - Symantec

Is this Caroline Wong?

 >  * Peer to Peer Software
 >  * Private and Anonymous Communication
 > - Palantir? I guess that's not exactly private... @_@

[Actually, consider their cooperation with the NSA, they are the opposite
of private ;-) .  Anyway.]

Who do you know there?

 >  * Ad Blocking/Spam Filtering
 >  * Machine Learning/Data Mining
 > - Infer (start-up in SF but they've been around for ~3 years)

Is this Jacob Scott?

 >  * Speech Recognition
 > - naunce

Is this Hamilton Yu?  (I remember Hamilton.  He was one of the people who
onboard'd me when I first arrived at Tell_me.  Wonder if he remembers me.)

 > - [24]/7
 > - you probably know them more closely, but Macrosoft again :)

Yeah.  24/7 is the reason why I was laid off.  So, I probably persona
non grata there.

 > if LinkedIn lets you do this, let me know if there's anyone specific you'd
 > like me to introduce you to.

This got me thinking that maybe I should send out a mass email to my
LinkedIn connections saying what I'm looking for.

...and then subsequently nix any recruiters who cannot get me anything :-).

 > take care!