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cool! you look younger than I thought you would be. I always thought of you of as a very old wrinkly man with graying hair...
Nah. In person, I look more like this.
Sheesh, DIMA! -- Alex is barely out of grad school. I'll admit, though, grad school does age one a bit!
Alex do you always work in the dark.
Check out his shirt. ;)
Very cool shirt! Nice mood lighting.