For the last week, JWZ has been in my shower thoughts. Probably because I stood him up a few weeks back and I can’t rid myself of the guilt.
I first met JWZ after the opening of DNA Lounge. I was going upstairs and he was coming downstairs with a fist full of drink tickets. He stopped and gave me a big smile and said, “want some??!” Later on, I asked a friend who he was and he said, “Like, omg, don’t you know?! That’s Jamie Zawinski!” I’m terrible with names sometimes, so it still wasn’t ringing a bell for me. “You know, JWZ?! WebCollage guy?!” Then it hit me…
Jamie wasn’t a girl.
I was a huge fan of WebCollage and just assumed it was made by some incredibly geeky woman (I never knew a male Jamie, what can I say?). I also realized that Jamie created my favorite application of all time (even to this day..), the XDaliClock.
Yes, I’m a huge XDaliClock fan dork. I eventually became friends with JWZ over irc and saw him at the club regularly. For a few years solid, you could reliably find me at DNA either dancing or working from one of his Linux terminals. (Btw, how sexy is that? Turned out to be a complete pain in the ass for him, but it was totally sexy).
Anyhow, what have I thinking about in my shower? I was thinking about a tweet he sent that said:
awesome reputations to have: “read about jwz failing, as only he can”
I don’t know the complete context of the quote, but it upset me. I’ve been thinking about all of the great things that JWZ has done and succeeded at. He’s amazing. I mean, just look at the backstage notes of what it took to build DNA Lounge to see how dedicated and amazing he is. He’s accomplished so much in his life and he has the most amazing and sexy brain. He is, without a doubt, one of the sexiest geeks alive.
