Jimbo reveals all Options

[thekohser]

Brandweek - lifestyle special issue
Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
Aug 29, 2010
- Mike Chapman

What quality do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty. Those who stick by you through thick and thin.

What are you reading at the moment?
Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four.

What's your favorite restaurant?
The little pizza joint across the street from me in Florida. My daughter and I go there, eat pizza and read about warrior cats.

Location of possible pizza joints nearby Golden Acres, in Dunedin, Florida

What's your guilty pleasure?
Eating the Pringles from the hotel mini-bar.

All-time favorite book:
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

All-time favorite movie:
Touch of Evil (1958)

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[NuclearWarfare]

What are you reading at the moment?
Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four.

That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that.

[Somey]

What are you reading at the moment?
Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four.

That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that.

I'd say he's going a little out of his way to point out that he's reading these books, with his daughter, in a local pizza parlor no less - IOW, "look at me, I'm spending quality time with my kid, teaching her the joys of reading, so surely I can't be guilty of promoting a website that threatens the survival of the publishing industry As We Know It, and coincidentally has been carrying numerous pornographic images of children, in some cases over my own objections."

It's not like he's getting her to read Cult of the Amateur either, is it?

[thekohser]

What are you reading at the moment?
Warriors, a series of books for kids about warrior cats... I have only read four.

That's...interesting. I wonder why he is reading that.

I'd say he's going a little out of his way to point out that he's reading these books, with his daughter, in a local pizza parlor no less - IOW, "look at me, I'm spending quality time with my kid, teaching her the joys of reading, so surely I can't be guilty of promoting a website that threatens the survival of the publishing industry As We Know It, and coincidentally has been carrying numerous pornographic images of children, in some cases over my own objections."

It's not like he's getting her to read Cult of the Amateur either, is it?

Kira is either 9 or 10 years old. She knows how to read. In fact, she's read many more of the Warriors series than has Jimbo. So, exactly how do two people who know how to read "spend quality time" reading books that the younger person has already read? Are they reading aloud to each other? My hunch is that maybe -- MAYBE -- Kira is reading aloud to her father. However, it's equally possible that they are just sitting there with their pizza, each with their nose in a different book in the Warriors series, quietly reading to themselves.

[The Adversary]

Kira is either 9 or 10 years old. She knows how to read. In fact, she's read many more of the Warriors series than has Jimbo. So, exactly how do two people who know how to read "spend quality time" reading books that the younger person has already read? Are they reading aloud to each other? My hunch is that maybe -- MAYBE -- Kira is reading aloud to her father. However, it's equally possible that they are just sitting there with their pizza, each with their nose in a different book in the Warriors series, quietly reading to themselves.

(IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/mad.gif) Come on. This is not fair.

Greetings, from one who loved to sit on her fathers lap and being read to, for several years after she had learned to read.

Jimbo does certainly value loyalty: he expects people to be unthinkingly and unswervingly loyal to him, while at the same time offering no loyalty to anyone else whatsoever.

Spot on, I suspect.