A few new hires at Metaweb brings our Brian/Bryan quotient to dangerously high levels. We’ve got four of them now, almost 7% of our headcount, and the race is on to find nicknames for at least some of them before meltdown occurs.

Say hi to — from left to right — Michael, Andi, Brian, and Bobby, all of whom joined us last week.

In case you’re fascinated by the “I’m Brian too, and so is my wife” feeling around here at the moment, here’s a MQL query to show all of Metaweb’s Brians and Bryans (and, alas, Brendans, due to limitations in MQL wildcard support):

{
  "query" : [{
    "employees" : [{
      "from" : null,
      "title" : null,
      "person" : [{
        "name" : null,
        "name~=" : "^Br*an"
      }]
    }],
    "name" : null,
    "name~=" : "Metaweb",
    "type" : "/business/employer"
  }]
}

You can try out the above query for yourself by cutting and pasting it into the Freebase Query Editor.