Interviewed for a rather unglamorous contract at SourceForge. In the process of interview and office politics, CowboyNeal's name (of slashdot fame came up. The interview mistook my fondness of CowboyNeal as a professional reference... The totality of my physical interactions with CowboynNeal can be summed up with me libating him for several hours with an unidentified compound, and generally taking to him while in various altered states over IRC for some time thereafter.
Needless to say, CowboyNeal was unable to professionally comment on my coding style :(. However, should the poll ever come up on slashdot, "who do you give as your professional reference", I can honestly answer "CowboyNeal"!