The other shoe

I have a bad feeling about this. Supposed to leave in 4 hours, and there's snow and high winds. Bracing for the airport delays. O'Hare + winter = good chance of never arriving or leaving on time.

I also have everything done... backups made, laptop all set, files on disc... I'm always wishing I had a few more hours. It's been a pretty easy week, so I'm sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Which probably means I'm going to get strip searched at the airport or something. note to self: wear clean underwear

Maybe I'm just wigged about going somewhere actually colder than it is here right now.

Tiff pointed me to a decent article on Justin Frankel over at rollingstone.com that's worth a read.

He's the guy who did winamp, gnutella, waste, etc. It's overdown and overly dramatic, but a fun read and gives some tidbits behind the headlines I'd been exposed to (especially when waste.exe was released).

Have to have the "i love toxic waste" tshirt. Haven't seen one of those since Real Genius.

An excerpt:

But Justin, despite buying himself a used turbo Audi, was in no rush to sell out. Early on, he had included the tag line "Winamp whips the llama's ass" (riffed from a line in a song by the late schizophrenic Chicago street singer Wesley Willis) on every player. When a pharmaceutical company offered big money to adapt Winamp for use in sales presentations -- on the condition that he remove the tag line -- Frankel balked, and the deal fell apart.

At least he's not on the cover. Nowadays that pretty much guarantees you're about to disappear.