# Hey Kirupa

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**Created:** [April 15, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hey-kirupa/328039 "2012-04-15T00:39:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![fez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fez](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fez)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hey-kirupa/328039/1 "2012-04-15T00:39:50Z")

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It’s been a long time. Where’s the old crew?! I heard Phil Jayhan ended up being some kind of crackpot conspiracy theorist! Pity, I rather liked him. Random seems pretty sparse; I’m seeing it today for the first time in 8 years. I guess Flash wasn’t the future, eh?

Two years ago I successfully defended my dissertation on a novel nucleic acid capture mechanism for DNA damage excision, and the article I co-authored was published in Nature in 2010. This was definitely not where I saw my life heading.

I stumbled across the forum (more out of nostalgia than anything else) and was honestly pretty depressed with how much has changed since I left. I’m glad I was a part of it in the heyday though. I learned so much from everybody; I couldn’t have asked for more as a 13 year old tech-junkie.

Take care Kirupa.

Fez (I don’t even know why that’s my username, mfy real name doesn’t sound anything like it)