When an idea is right it snaps into your mind like it always was there. #
If the Knicks end up losing, the moment their fate was decided was when they gave Julius Randle the Most Improved Player award. Just before the first game of the playoff series. Who decided that timing? Tempting fate. God'll always get you for that. If I were advising Randle, I'd urge him to throw the award into the East River before Game 5.#
I listened to a New Yorker interview with Spike Lee about this year's Knicks. There was a surprise, he didn't watch the NBA bubble last year. I didn't either. It was too sad. The NBA now, finally, is back. And having the Knicks do so well this year, and it being the immediate post-pandemic season, it's like both happened at the same time and one was the cause and the other was the effect, though it's impossible to say which is which. I would like to hear Spike Lee ramble about the Knicks, for an hour or so, or really as long as he wants. #In the early days of the web there were purists who thought HTML should be edited by hand. I was not one of them. As soon as I got involved in 1994, I started working on AutoWeb, the first step on the road to blogging.#
I wish the journalists would chase the connections between Repubs in Congress and Putin.#
- I guess Guy Kawasaki is finishing up the edit of the interview we did a couple of weeks ago. He asked for a profile picture, I didn't have a good one, so I took this selfie yesterday. He wanted me to smile. This is something that usually I have trouble with in pictures, I get self-conscious, my smiles look phony -- because they are. I am not happy being photographed, I feel trapped. #
- But Guy and I have been friends for a long time, and we were close in a very important time, around the launch of the Macintosh in 1984. If I didn't know Guy, I never would have gotten an early machine. The Mac was the perfect platform for our "idea processor" -- it attracted just the kind of people who would understand outliners. People who think, organize, analyze, do things. And Apple needed our software, Guy could see that. #
- In 1986, the Mac was set to explode and we had had enough time to create a killer outliner for the Mac, and as they say, the rest is history. So I thought of how much I value our friendship as I was taking the picture, and the smile came naturally, all on its own. #
- PS: Guy used to call me Beeeeg Stuffff. He has a very LA way of speaking. I can imitate him saying it. That's what actually put the smile on my face, the same smile is there right now. Instead of saying Cheese, I said Beeeeg Stuff. #
- PPS: Many of the nicknames people have for me are about my bigness. For example, Mike Boich and Dave Jacobs call me El Grandè. I like that one too, because has adds a Latin accent to my grandiosity. #
- PPPS: Another imitation of Guy, a slight variant on Beeg Stuff.#
