An old friend...

So, I figured I'd try to hit my buddy Paul Sperl up when I ventured into Germany. Paul (Moritz) was a German exchange student my junior year of high school. We were in a funk band called Blu Martini. Yea, we won the battle of the bands in case you were wondering! :) I rocked the drums and he rocked the trumpet. Needless to say, we've not seen each other in quite some time. I figured I would try the email addresses that I had for him back in high school.

Drafted up an email....email bounced back. "Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:" Weak!

Tried another email I had for him....email bounced back. "Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:" Again, Lame.

I tried an international phone number I had for him. "This number is no longer in service." Well, damn.

Enter Internet.

This is where having some searching skills comes in handy. I MaltEGO'd his name using various search libraries and plugins. Now we are talking.

About 30 minutes of filtering and I found several pages of soccer teams he had played on. They were all removed, so I hit the Google cache, still no emails or contact info. I found a few pages that linked to a University in Munich, Germany and looked at the geography. There was a high probability that this was him. I revised my search terms and found another dead link. Google cached that up and whaalaa, email address.

Drafted up an email...."Hey!!! Blu Martini kicks ass, give me a call at xxxxxxxxxx"

Needless to say, if you want something bad enough on the internet, you can find it.

Paul does go to that University and we are meeting up in Munich for 1,2,3,4 or maybe a few more beers.