Ambush Interview #31 - 2HousePlague

cool...........

YARGH! I've been waiting for this one. I find him so interesting, and can't wait to meet him in Miami.

interesting questions
should be good

Ohhh, Jack is sure to be a fantastic interview.
WG

oh this is gonna be a good one.

Wow, this one should be very good. Love da j-baby.

Adult Friendfinder Rocks

Adult Friend Finder has always been INCREDIBLE to me

$2mil in one day is something I'd like to hear about although... I'm not sure I'd spend that in my life time... which sucks.

This one is interesting

will be an interesting one to read

LOL I thought you might find it so

I liked yours as well

get fucked fatboy

I know the answer to #23... Jack's a dirty boy..

It is an interesting game we play

All those years of dungeons and dragons is paying off hhahahahh !

Wow Sleazy you aren't pulling any punches.

no different than any other interview.


i ask the hard questions

LOL, I don't think we will have the chance to play D&D in the next few years, with the amount of work that we have to do

Yeah you do, Sleazy Kicks ass !

Thats ok High payouts are our Vorpal Swords, and merchant banks are our +5 Shields hahhhah. Its all the same !

I'm soo looking forward to this .. Jack is a very interesting character

This will be an interesting Interview i cant wait to hear all theh juicy answers !

Add to that the Swiss banking Bag of Holding and you've got one helluva character!

better break out the Voltaire...Jack is going to raise the roof with some of his answers

I'd say addiction and destructiveness are the threshholds of concern. There is a broad spectrum of human behaviors -- eating, drugs, sex, not-eating, dangerous thrill-seeking, drinking, etc -- that can lead a person into harm. At base, it is a loss of control over your relationship with pain. Pain (in all its forms) is a central aspect of the human condition. But, many of us, unfortunately, try to circumvent (and not process) the inescapable, inevitable arrival of painful moments in our lives. Extraordinary life-lessons, I feel very blessed to have received, have permitted me to come into what I would describe as a healthy relationship with the pain in my life. Anyone who knows me, would say that I live my life in a constant struggle to live up to standards that matter to ME -- things like honesty integrity, saying what you mean and doing what you say, etc. I'd like to be judged by the standards and ideals I've decided are important to me, and by how well I've lived up to them.

In that regard, this industry is like every other.

Whether you are the CEO of a company or a lonely little nerd nobody talks to in the playground, people will lie and invent and mischaracterize you and the things you do if:

1. They are weak, intimidated, insecure in their own talents and worth, and...

2. They think it will achieve for them some associative benefit with another party.

What's saddest about this pattern of behavior is that the groups that huddle together in support of the lies spoken about another person or persons are damning themselves to lives of self-loathing and constant paranoia -- the image of rats squirming together in a barrel suits the idea.

I pray for them.



j-

Keep going ..............

I know, you do.

I am glad we got to know each other during the show, Jack, and I look forward to finding out more!
Good luck with your current venture! I know you're on the right track!
And good luck finishing all the questions!

woohoo Jack is the man!

"Nerd" -- has two meanings, which, in some people are both true:

1. An academic, a person of intelligence who is passionate about ideas, and...

2. A social misfit, a person who (though perhaps very intelligent -- even "brilliant") lacks the skills to make people feel comfortable around them and to communicate the very ideas about which they may be so passionate.

In my case, I was both #1 and #2 till about the age of 12 -- then I lost my virginity, acquired sexual confidence, and learned that the best possible combination for success is not just having the idea, but also being able to make others excited by it -- and to LOVE you for making them excited.


j-

So far so good, can't wait for the rest of your answers
I really enjoy reading your outlook on things...

this is going to be a good one
nice

You live in Amsterdam?

that is so true

Good stuff thus far. Keep it up top.

I had the pleasure of meeting Jack this past week, am looking forward to readig this interview and conducting some business with him.

I predict record traffic at Dictionary.com by the time this interview is over.

nah that's in the US... I asked her the same Q a while ago

Great. I just snorted coke. The fizzy cola kind.

YARGH! His intellect be dizzying.

I moved to the Bay Area from New York in 1998 -- to take a great job offer at the peak of the Bubble's swollenness.

In the last 6+ years, I have found the SF Bay Area probably the most "correct" place I have ever lived or visited. Something is "right" here in SF that seems lacking just about everywhere else.

I have a theory about the migration pattern of the European influence across the Atlantic, then across this continent.

In the 17th century, when the colonization of "America" may be said to have begun, Europe was at a new height of civilization -- including heights of both artistic, technological and scientific achievement.

In spite of those levels of unprecedented "quality of life" (as measured by the elaborateness of the average European life), a group of people decided to venture into the WILDERNESS, because of their IDEALS.

At that time, the "Wilderness" was the unknown distances across the Atlantic Ocean, and whatever strange lands lay beyond. The prospect was fraught with many unpredictable perils and a high likelihood of death and suffering.

As many of you know about me, I like to look for the science in things that don't seem to contain science.

In the case of the "Pilgrims", I see their departure from Europe (at that time and for that reason) as a kind of Evolutionary "cut", as evidence of the presence of something in THOSE people that was not present in those who stayed in Europe.

Call it what you like, but these people willingly risked EVERYTHING for what they believed.

That was cut #1.

About two hundred years later, after the wilderness had been considerably conquered and civilization had gained a foothold, another group of people (now "Americans") decided to leave the safety and certainty of the East Coast to head WEST, once again, into the WILDERNESS.

This time, the ideological motivations had changed and, combining a sense of OPPORTUNITY with a tolerance for difficulty and adversity, became what is best described as the Pioneering Spirit.

That was cut #2.

On the West Coast, having no more westward WILDERNESS to venture into, civilization once again developed and evolved into cities -- one such is San Francisco.

Now I couldn't tell you why it happened here, but I think that an amazing thing (seen nowhere else on Earth) has happened in San Francisco.

In this great city, we have the unique combination (after two successive evolutionary "cuts") of an extreme form of idealism plus pioneerism in a TRUE CITY, in the European sense.

By city I mean a settled area whose streets and parks and "places" result from the natural movement of humans through its geography and topography -- and not from the movements and necessities of motor vehicles.

As a result, it is a vibrant place occuppied by some of the most evolved and exciting thinkers I have ever met.

Here are two poems I wrote inspired by living in SF and by the people I've met here.

One describes a way of thinking I admire, the other the migratory phenomenon I described above.


"Hippies"

Turning out a piece of art,
espousing
controversial points of view,
you always do
the things that say to Everyone:
"You're okay, too!"
and make your kids un-anxious,
just like you.



10 May, 2004.



"One Direction of Travel"

Where do we go from here? The West..
is fully occupied. "Civility"
is out of space. And the Idealists
are crying out for Natives to convert.
Nor do the Anarchists
have any wilderness
to shed their clothes and all their common sense.

It feels a bit like Europe! Now...
that we have reached a Coast of sorts,
and face (like the Atlantic, once)
a vast, impenetrable void, again,
what can we do but contemplate
the cities we have built and left,
as if it were our fate?



24 August, 2003



j-

I have been an "aquarist" (a keeper of fish) since the age of 10.

My first "tank" experience (versus the doomed goldfish in the bowl experience at the carnival we've all had) was a 10-gallon that came with fish, food, filters and, for me, the promise of a world I could CREATE.

I've kept: sharks, piranhas, discus, african cichlids, rays, puffers, scorpionish, moray eels and hundreds of others, ranging in price from free (caught by me) to over $500 (I once paid for a rare Red Sea butterfly, I just HAD to have).

Here are some pix of tanks I've had...


A mini-reef tank:



An "aggressive" salt-water tank:



j-

YARGH!

I always see these letters, and numbers highlighted in your sig... I C (see?) 666 a plague, then c:\ (see?) ping. Secret code? or just worked out that way?

Great interview so far.

Pirate mode re-enabled
YARGH! me hearties, where be me pegleg wax?

The good ship Chio... It is rising....

Everything I do is intentional.


j-

YARGH! I figured. So is it a secret code for the endtimes?

Should I wake up Theo, and let him know the bus is coming?

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