I've somehow never managed to run into him; I gave up on h.p.o. (and Usenet in general) a long time ago, and I've never found any excuse to e-mail him. He was actually scheduled to speak at Extro 5, where I was speaking on a different topic, but he couldn't make it. His son, Patri Friedman, however, hosts a great table-stakes poker game which I frequent. 0