Archive for September, 2008
Go for your whims.
September 2nd, 2008
In my post-TPR (The Princeton Review) - trying to figure out what I want to do state of mind I decided to do something a little different. All of us get whims and in most cases, at least with myself, I tend to be all talk. Lately, with a sort of "nothing to lose" attititude I decided to attempt to follow through with some of my whims. One of these whims stemmed from my fan-boy status of a particular tech celebrity Leo Laporte. I have been listening to his podcasts for years and watched him on TechTV before they went caput. I have always admired him and been amazed by his overall knowledge of not only the history of technology but all things new and cool.
So here is the beginning of the story. I sent Leo a simple email volunteering my time for a week, where I would fly out to Petaluma and intern for him. I truly didn’t care what I did for him. Be it washing his car, making coffee or something more useful like help with his websites.
To mitigate my barrier to entry I told him I would pay for all my own expenses. A couple weeks later I got a message back from Mara, Leo’s email person. She told me that she would pass my email over to Leo. To be clear she told me that he reads all of his email eventually. To my huge delight, I was soon contacted by Leo who extended the invitation to visit him.
I am planning on going to Petaluma on Sept. 15-18.
Let’s hear it for our whims. More to come…
