I met Mike when he mistook me for a model at a dance party when we were teenagers in Vancouver together, before he went off to travel the world as a video game designer. It's still one of the most flattering ways to meet a person I've encountered. He is back in Montreal now, which is slightly more convenient to visit than Santiago, and I am honoured to have such a clever and intelligent man as a friend. My favourite thing to share about Mike might be the collection of semi-precious stone spheres he displays to accurately represent the size of the planets of both our home system of Sol and that of the Star Wars universe.