businessweek posted a fun bio article on j allard last week and its pretty much made its round through the blogs and techmeme. there was a section that really stood out to me that I had to post to my blog for future reference.
“everything with allard is about velocity. he drives a ferrari 360 and a porsche 911. He bombs down ski runs during the summer on a mountain bike at speeds topping 30 miles an hour. he qualified for the u.s. nationals race this summer but had to drop out after he was hit by a car while biking around seattle. “i love that gravity is unforgiving,” he says. he even blazes through e-mail, jotting down notes all in lower case: “shift key slows you down,” he writes.”
i’m a speed junkie too and can totally relate, i love to go fast, very, very fast. i did give up motocross a couple of years back as it was an sport that pulled me away from my family more than it allowed us to spend time together. also the idea of making a connecting flight in a body cast didn’t exactly appeal to me either, it seems as we get older the bumps and bruises hurt a lot more.
so that leaves me with my car which is fine with me.
this post brought to you in all lowercase in tribute to j. allard
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