I'm friendly with most of you, but have only met Snickerdoodle in person (a few months ago when I visited his store in Chicago). I would say that the mods are all a good group of people, and a few of them I was at least somewhat friendly with on the old segaxtreme boards...
I don't really remember who the "first friend" was...but these days I probably chat most with Ack and Racket in PM and email, and with jfe2, weasels, classicgamer5, 707, MrPopo, pephary, and a few other folks in IRC. I have also had some nice conversations with newcomers Hobie-Wan and Luke. (Luke, hopefully I'm in the brew/chew crowd.) Lots of you have struck up some conversations with me around the auction and/or podcast too, which has been nice.
I think I've convinced Racket to come to PAX East next month, so I'll get a chance to meet him and anyone else who wants to come. If you want to come, maybe we could do a mini meet-up - sound off in the thread here:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 15&t=19229.