His avatar looks very much like my mentor Paul. He's the one that broke my ignorance of Linux and got me on a secondary wave of geekness, and we sat for hours talking about old 80's club tracks and industrial music and whatnot.
He's married and living 40 miles north of me, otherwise I'd really have thought you were him. 
And you've got his sense of humor.
See this is why I've always had slightly older friends. They are always cooler and better looking and willing to bear the brunt of a crazy girl hanging around. 