Baby Gates

Baby Gates was a friend from middle school. I was originally friends with his brother. But his brother's bad attitude got him send to his biological father's, where he had a few too many poofs of the magic dragon and left school.

Baby Gates got his first paying gig in high school developing an on-line game for some guy that wanted to start a BBS. BBS is old school internet that you dial up to on a 300 or 900 baud modem. That venture failed through, but he got a free computer out of it. We room together in college for a while, but didn't really connect and he moved out half way thought the year. We haven't really kept in touch, but I ran into him a few weeks ago and we went to lunch this past Monday.

He's heard a bit about me, presumablly from Pants on Fire(one of the more interesting characters I know). Baby Gates started a high tech company a couple of years ago(before the age of 30) and it's doing pretty well. His farther started a bunch of startups in his day, and now develops land somewhere.

He had one kid, plans to have one more, and has inhereted a nephew as a son from his wife's side. He didn't go into why except that the kid's parents aren't capable of caring for him. He mentioned that he and his wife didn't bond well with the nephew since they got him when he was about 5. I'm sure he tries to treat the kid well, cause he's generally a nice person. But kids and feel stuff like that better than women and they will act out.