Categories: It Happened to Me

I am Rutger Hauer

While looking through my photos last night, I found this one of me from July 2000, during those heady dot-com days:


“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Investors’ money on fire

off the shoulder of El Camino Real. I watched C code crash in the dark near

the Golden Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears

in rain…”

Joey deVilla

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