Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
<i>Trevor graduated at about the same time the acquisition closed, so in the course of 4 days he went from impecunious grad student to millionaire PhD.</i><p>In 1998, I had made an effort to do the whole "once a day, learn a random new word from the dictionary".  I did that for exactly <i>one day</i>.  The one word I learned was "impecunious."  Up until now, I've never, ever, seen or heard that word used.<p>So in 1998, independent, near simultaneous events (Viaweb being acquired, and me learning a single word) were set in motion that would culminate 14 years later in me reading for the first time an actual legitimate use of that word, resulting in a very self-satisfied grin.  Consider my day made.<p>It means "poor" btw.