Woz’s editorial comment on Gray Powell, the engineer who left the iPhone prototype in the bar. Personally, I think it would be genius for Steve Jobs to invite Gray Powell up on stage for the phone rollout…
– Dave
The first computer I ever owned (besides a computer I built from a kit when I was a kid) was an Apple IIe. That computer started my long, torrid love affair with Apple. The Apple IIe was a brilliant bit of engineering, and half the fun was peeking through memory, trying to figure out where all the cool stuff was hidden.
But before the Apple II series, there was the original, the Apple I, handcrafter by Woz and sold out of Steve Jobs’s parent’s garage for the most excellent price of $666.66. Really, that is the original price. For that price, you got a circuit board. You had to build a case, add a power supply, keyboard, and a TV. Here’s a picture from the Apple I wiki page:
Want to buy an original Apple I? You are in luck. There’s one for sale on eBay. It is billed as “perhaps the best condition, best documented Apple 1 in existence.” The listing is pretty interesting. If any of you rich folks who read this blog are thinking what to buy me for a holiday present, this may be the best gift a true Apple fanboy could ever receive! 
Here’s the eBay listing. Happy bidding!
– Dave
Woz was in Cologne playing a Segway polo match and did an interview for a German site.
Very interesting discussion on GPS potential as well as some technological dreams…
– Dave
Remember the US Festival from the early 1980’s? Well Woz just sent out the word that a Facebook page has been created for the festival. Check out the video for Van Halen doing Jamie’s Crying…
– Dave
Woz sent this great clip of Zeke, a DOG, playing basketball. That’s just crazy. Enjoy…
– Dave
This clip is a bit old, but this guy is great – just can’t tear my eyes away…
– Dave
From Woz: Definitely worth a look. If this piques your interest, here’s a link to a hi-res PDF version…
– Dave
First, here’s the Jimmy Kimmel interview with Woz, after he was kicked off the show:
And below is an email Woz sent out. More later…
– Dave
FROM WOZ
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This morning, very early, I met a limo that took me to the DWTS stage for a satellite feed to Good Morning America. I don’t remember specifics of that interview, with myself and with Holly, but they did include the greatly funny Jimmy Kimmel piece. Then it was back to my apartment where I rushed to clear as much internet stuff as I could.
I actually managed to sleep maybe 2 hours before meeting another limo that took me to LAX for a flight to NYC to appear on Regis and Kelly tomorrow morning (Thursday). Karina and Dmitry and Holly were also on this fight, and Holly’s manager and my friends Joe and Zach.
It’s 1 AM here now and I have to catch a morning limo, so I’m going to hold off on doing a full post of my DWTS thoughts. Thank you all for your patience.
I do plan to stay in NYC a couple of extra days and return to L.A. on Sunday to catch the DWTS show on Monday and Tuesday. I may drive home Wednesday for the first time in quite a while, so that’s a big deal.
I am very bogged down due to a total lack of time right now.
best,
Woz
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– tv is wake zone
I’m hoping to stay on DWTS, but 2 couples will be sent home tonight.
We just went through the dress rehearsal. Throughout the hour-long show, they weed it down to couples which are saved and couples which are in the last 3 that are not saved. This is NOT the bottom 3 couples. It’s the bottom 2 couples and one other that is not going home. That third couple may even be the one in first place, with combined judges’ and audience votes.
Karina and I are very sure that we’ll be in this group of 3, but we have hopes that we are not going home. It all depends on how many audience votes I actually have.
I could look up the exact count, but let’s say that the judges awarded 240 total score votes last night. Here are the top and bottom dance couples, showing their percentages:
Gilles and Cheryl 30 points 12.5%
Steve and Karina 12 points 5%
You can see by this that if Karina and I have 7.5% more fan votes than Gilles and Cheryl, then we are actually ahead of them for the total. We could be in first place in fact. 7.5% additional is not so huge a number that it’s impossible. We just don’t know.
Since we don’t know how strong this fan base is, in terms of voting, Karina and I could also be at the bottom where everyone thinks we are. In that case, we are going home. If we are sent packing, we go straight to the Jimmy Kimmel show tonight, immediately after DWTS is over (7 PM or 8 PM Pacific time).
If we are not in the final 3 dance couples, expect to hear Karina scream again!
And do enjoy what you like to do, no matter how hard it comes to you.
– Woz
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– tv is wake zone
We just finished dress rehearsal.
I had major problems in 3 runs with the full orchestra this morning. I had worked on 4 homework assignments that Karina gave me but I didn’t do my normal thing I do at home, which is to repeatedly, with the music playing or not, step through my entire dance from start to finish. I do this either in my head (like when in bed) or on my feet in the small apartment, making allowances for distances.
Going through the entire dance gets the linking between the small parts so well in my head that I don’t have a worry. But this morning, while rehearsing to the orchestra, my mind and muscles were stalling to grasp for the link, for the next thing to do. I had been overconfident at having the whole routine down pretty well that way the day before.
Karina was worried. I knew what I needed to do to get back into it but Karina isn’t me and she was worried. I felt so sorry for letting her down but feeling sorry is not a constructive step or solution. The constructive step was to go to my trailer and practice danceing all the way through from start to finish. I did it maybe 10 times during the break.
When I encountered Karina just now, before the dress rehearsal, I told her that I had it down, very confidently to reassure her. But the proof is in the pudding and our dance went the best ever. When we finished and I came back to the trailer, Julie told me that I looked much better in the confident character of the Argentine Tango than before.
I pulled my smile on the judges and the few who saw it liked it and laughed. I wish I could wink but I can’t. So I try one of those smiles that they have in movies where the guy turns toward the camera, away from his ‘partner’ and gives a type of smile that is equal to a wink.
All our lift moves went well. I am going to keep practicing in my trailer though, so as not to pull any surprises on Karina for the real show tonight.
Shawn Johnson does some great gymnastic moves. I have to swear that the Lindy Hop is my favorite dance yet. I love fast foot motion, at the edge of physical ability, and all the funn 50’s diner type feel of it. I love all the lifts and some are pretty spectacular. I’m not talking just about Shawn and Mark, her partner, but also about Ty and Chelsea, and Julianne and Chuck, David Allen Greer and Kym, and Melissa and Tony. I can’t say that any one of them is more impressive than the other. In the red room, I was standing to each Lindy Hop dance on our screen and moving with it. I just love the music and dances so much.
The performance that actually brought me to tears was that of Holly and Dmitry. Holly was in doubt after last week’s dance-off, so seeing such an incredible dance, from both of them, made me more than just happy. Others in the red room felt similarly. I hope that gets more acceptance for Holly, who is often left alone from conversations going on.
It’s all good. It’s all good. (that’s a quote from my friend Joe Patane).
off to makeup….
Woz
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– tv is wake zone
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