Geek fans
I've mentioned on a previous QOTW that I worked on a web site a few years ago which involved soliciting contributions from people whose ideas we admired. I had a long wishlist of people I wanted on the site, and I regard it as one of my biggest achievements that we managed to contact and get material from almost all of them. That's how I got Terry Pratchett to write us a short story and Neil Gaiman to make us a poem, and best of all, I chatted to Douglas Hofstadter - the only time I've found my voice shaking when speaking to someone.

The best bit was that because the site had a puzzle element, all of these people had to hide puzzles in their material, which meant that not only did Pratchett write us a story, but I got to go back to him and say 'that's great, but do you think you could hide an acrostic in it?'
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Mon 20 Apr 2009, 9:39, Reply)