Jimbo rubs it in San Jose's face Options

[thekohser]

Nobody wants to live in San José, not as an inherent thing.

-- Jimmy Wales (link)

I believe there are a few Wikipedians and WMF'ers who live in San Jose. How do they feel about Jimmy jetting off to London, kissing London's ass, then insulting the 10th-largest city in the United States?

[Somey]

Silicon Valley (aka Santa Clara County, CA) used to be known as "The Valley of the Heart's Delight." There was a lynching that took place there, back during the Depression (the first one, not the one we might be in now, depending on who your statistician is). There's a (bad) movie about the lynching using that as the title... I guess they stopped calling it that in the 1960's, but there are still some people calling it "The Valley of the Heart's Delight" even today, though I suspect they're mostly elderly types who are members of local historical societies and what-not.

Anyway... I would be shocked to learn that Jimbo knows any programming languages, or has ever come up with a genuinely sellable product idea completely on his own, or that he could even be described as a "technologist" by a real venture capitalist. Obviously, all that could be said of most people, but ultimately I'd have to agree with Mr. Vigilant - and if anything, what he said probably doesn't go far enough.

I suspect he's underestimating the gullibility of the London-based VC community, but it looks like he has the right girlfriend now for getting invited to all the right parties. Maybe ability and talent isn't really what it takes to succeed there, if you have the right connections.

[thekohser]

...I would be shocked to learn that Jimbo knows any programming languages...

...it looks like he has the right girlfriend now for getting invited to all the right parties...

I think he does actually dabble in programming -- he said he's learning Flash with his daughter Kira, when they're not doing Club Penguin. Also, here is Jimmy scanning some QR code.

As for that new girlfriend in the UK -- she's not just any old girlfriend, is she? She's the #2 baby momma! Which, by the way, I've never seen any Wikipediot dare ask Jimbo whether it was a boy or a girl. Isn't that a common question you ask of your friend who's recently had a baby?

[Zoloft]

...I would be shocked to learn that Jimbo knows any programming languages...

...it looks like he has the right girlfriend now for getting invited to all the right parties...

I think he does actually dabble in programming -- he said he's learning Flash with his daughter Kira, when they're not doing Club Penguin. Also, here is Jimmy scanning some QR code.

As for that new girlfriend in the UK -- she's not just any old girlfriend, is she? She's the #2 baby momma! Which, by the way, I've never seen any Wikipediot dare ask Jimbo whether it was a boy or a girl. Isn't that a common question you ask of your friend who's recently had a baby?

Apparently even the notoriously nosy Brit press doesn't ask that question.