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But Android is only a small part of why he is influential and important, it is the most visible I suppose.
"Well, I've created the operating system that runs about every 5th smartphone". "Well, and some other things".
"Hi, I'm Linus" "Nice to meet you Linus. What do you do?" "I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal" "Really?" "People know me." "Well I'm very happy for you." "I'm very important. The internet runs off my software and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."
"Wow, how much does your software cost?"
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I remember some article about the band Elastica. They were on top of the charts, on the covers of magazines, they were "it." In contrast to the popstar image, they stayed in the hotel room, played Scrabble, went to bed early.
I worked in record stores for a couple of years a long time ago, and we'd have musicians come in to make appearances or shop for music or whatever. One of the more interesting visits was Winger, a mid-range hair metal band of the era. They were extremely polite, very well informed about the business of their tour when I talked with them, and they bought a good number of 50s era jazz cds to listen to in their bus.
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I worked in record stores for a couple of years a long time ago, and we'd have musicians come in to make appearances or shop for music or whatever. One of the more interesting visits was Winger, a mid-range hair metal band of the era. They were extremely polite, very well informed about the business of their tour when I talked with them, and they bought a good number of 50s era jazz cds to listen to in their bus.
I heard a bit from Alice Cooper on NPR recently, about how he was the inspiration for younger musicians to shock audiences with fake blood and satan worship, but then he'd meet those guys back stage, they were all like, "mr cooper, I'm so honored to meet you. this is my mom. she baked you some cookies."
he sounds depressed
I live next door to a celebrity chef. When I met him, he comes up to me, introduces himself like he's running for office, then there's this pause because he's waiting for the typical "regular guy meets celebrity" reaction. "Haven't you heard of me?" Nope sorry. As far as I'm concerned you're just my neighbor who doesn't walk his dog and lets the yard fill up with dog poop. I much prefer attitudes like Annie Lennox, w…
[1] http://goo.gl/EBitf (sorry, direct maps links are gigantic)
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Hah, didn't expect to see that while reading this thread. The post is here, although it's missing CSS and the images from that evening: http://web.archive.org/web/20060613002629/http://blakeross.c... Was definitely a crazy night. I enjoyed reading Linus' post.
I ran out of time to write, and then -- to be frank -- I forgot to pay my web hosting bill. Was pretty bummed to lose all that writing, thank god for the wayback machine. I hope to restart my blog in the near future.
I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset. When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models. The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to ge…
On the other hand, there is Charlie Sheen
If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed."
From Chuck Lorre, producer of Two and Half Men. http://chucklorre.com/index.php?p=329