Tristan Mackay Engst
Keeping Warm in the Garage
The New Rule(r)   I am a little entrepeneur...

I ran into Guy Kawasaki on Friday at Macworld Expo, almost exactly a day before Tristan was born. We exchanged news, and Guy being the savvy marketer that he is and knowing that new parents must take innumerable photographs, immediately sent us a care package consisting of his latest book, Rules for Revolutionaries, and a Garage.com XS t-shirt for Tristan. It's fitting somehow that Tristan should receive his first computer t-shirt from Guy, who said in his first book, The Macintosh Way, that "t-shirts are not chachkas, they're part of the development process."

[T-shirt reads: "I am a little entrepreneur. My favorite letters are I, P, and O."]


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It Does Suck
.sit happens   It Does Suck
Tristan is shown here wearing his favorite Aladdin Systems button from Macworld Expo. Although you can all figure out the basic joke, Tristan was also only 5 pounds 15.5 ounces at birth, which is about a 20 percent size savings over your average baby. As you know from downloading large files or trying to fit too many files on a floppy, small size can sometimes be a blessing, and the same applies to giving birth.   It's important in the Mac industry to ship at or directly after Macworld Expo, which we managed unwittingly. However, whenever you ship a product too early (whatever the schedule), you sometimes must put future plans on hold to address immediate concerns. In this case, Tonya wanted to review BBEdit 5.0 from Bare Bones Software, but because our product does suck (and extremely vigorously, thank you very much), that review might be a bit farther off. Our apologies. More pictures.

January 18, 1999
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