Re: Steve's new book "IWOZ"

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

PZ wrote:
> I just stayed up until 1:00am to watch Woz talk about his now book on
> the Colbert Report.  I wish I didn't, it tarnished my view of a
> childhood idol.  Woz made himself look like a bumbling idiot.  He
> stumbled over his words, and wasn't very coherent at all during the
> entire interview.  Cobert at one point asked "are you sure you invented
> the personal computer, or is this some kind of joke."  Sure its a
> comedy show, but thats what Woz set himself up to.
>
> Woz mentioned that this was his second book, his first being a computer
> joke book.  Cobert asked him to say a computer joke, and Woz had
> trouble coming up with one.
>
> I won't be suprised if the interview pops up on YouTube soon, so you
> can see for yourself, if you missed it.

Woz's personal presentation is an acquired taste (but isn't that
the case with most "geeks"? ;-).

He's not "media friendly", and I'm frankly surprised that he doesn't
yet seem to realize this about himself.

I'm pretty ambivalent about even reading the book...  After all, I
doubt that there will be illuminating revelations or great ideas
about technology.

He did a wonderful thing, for his own peculiar reasons, and happened
to fall in with others who used it to make him, and themselves, rich.
That's it.

> Mike Spurgeon wrote:
>
> > Bill Heckel wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Who is this Gina Smith that co-wrote the book with him, what did she do, bring him
> > > coffee, she sure did not help organize the book....
> >
> > Google would have told you this:
> >
> > http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/2001-05-30-maney.htm

-michael

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