Weirdness.......
Mar. 21st, 2007 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundTen years ago, I was living in Escondido. I was doing free-lance computer work, including web design and development. And not doing very well at it either
I had put in a bid and designed a prototype site for the San Diego Polo Club, but a group of web developers undercut my bid and got the contract.
A few months later, they were all dead, having committed suicide on March 26, 1997, along with the rest of the Heaven's Gate UFO cult.
Now San Diego seems to have a fair number of UFO cults. Unarius and the Lemurian Fellowship for example. So one more didn't really register on the radar.
Still, when I first heard about their mass suicide, my mind boggled. I remember the media swarm, the comments. It was very odd when I realized who it was - a mix of sadness and "see, the polo club should have gone with my bid!". (I remember being tempted to contact the polo club to reoffer, but decided I didn't want to be a vulture.
It seems weird that so much time has passed.
I had put in a bid and designed a prototype site for the San Diego Polo Club, but a group of web developers undercut my bid and got the contract.
A few months later, they were all dead, having committed suicide on March 26, 1997, along with the rest of the Heaven's Gate UFO cult.
Now San Diego seems to have a fair number of UFO cults. Unarius and the Lemurian Fellowship for example. So one more didn't really register on the radar.
Still, when I first heard about their mass suicide, my mind boggled. I remember the media swarm, the comments. It was very odd when I realized who it was - a mix of sadness and "see, the polo club should have gone with my bid!". (I remember being tempted to contact the polo club to reoffer, but decided I didn't want to be a vulture.
It seems weird that so much time has passed.
