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TALKING TO STRANGERS?
BILL GATES DOTTING HIS I’S,
CROSSING HIS PEAS
Bill Gates is a Boy Wonder to me; I wonder what he was
doing in 1973 outside school in Harvard – studying law?
(He dropped out.) I don’t know him from Adam Smith,
but I know he’s a Word Wizard, known that for years
(I’m a wide reader, see?), beginning with his Word 1
(the one with the Alpha) circa 1987. His Word 4 was a pain in the
ass – you sit long hours to come up with a manuscript worth perusing;
his Word 5 was the beginning of a paradigm shift that the world sat up and took notice of;
his Word 2003 is genius I now recognize and love to the max; it’s his Word 2007 I have
a problem with, a complete stranger to me and, you know, I don’t talk to strangers.
William Henry Gates, I presume? Photo by Domain Barnyard.
Oh, but Bill Gates is talking to strangers now. He has of course been traveling the information superhighway and,
as of last report, he was last seen in Africa this September, and in two different places at the same time! South
Africa and Tanzania. That’s the wonder of the Internet, right?
Bill Gates in Africa
2007. Actually, what people saw in September in Africa was Bill Gates in spirit, in truth but not in fact. He was
with Melinda. You see, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding the project Tropical Legumes in a dual-