| | I used to get bags of their stuff, too, take it raw by the teaspoon and all. I have not been a regular customer in a few years. I did not know about the pirate radio. That was something that Filthy Pierre was into. In fact, they bought his vitamin business from him when he went to Alaska. Durk had a double major and a double minor at MIT. His biography is in Wikipedia. A nice thumbnail about Durk and Merv Griffin is here on Dr. Jack Wheeler's site.
"Merv," I replied, "this is a very unusual guy. We have IQs of chimpanzees compared to him. I have to talk with him about this, see if I can get him to agree."
Yes, Linda and Tanny both always credited Durk and Sandy with input into TMFL, far beyond the blurb in the front of the book. Linda and Tanny were both very moralistic and Objectivist about evil people who opposed their ideas, but Durk, in particular, got them to tone that down in the book. About 1990 or so, I did a couple of programming projects for "Anthony I.S. Alexander" (he had A IS A for vanity plates on his 'Vette) and I wish that his project had come to fruition, but he was too much of a perfectionist to allow error -- an Objectivist failing to be sure -- so he worked it to death. I learned a lot from him about markets and it made a difference in how my wife trades in equities. Myself, I don't have the Ferengi lobes for it. I sell my labor like a prole.
Anyway, those were heady times. When I scan the current talent pool, I think of Barry Goldwater's comments about the Senate he came into and the one he left.
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 2/11, 8:01pm)
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