Ike Impe (not)
ike_impe@hotmail.com
Holy Grail and Steve Jobs

We got to Polo Towers, checked in under false names as Jobs requested, and got the meeting. I see from your web page what your name is, and from your guestbook what company you founded. Your name and company name and the Holy Grail project came up, he is scared shitless of it and he also knows that Microsoft is too, because MS hired 20 PHDs in Comp Sci to try to do what you and Zubin are doing Norman, and they still have not gotten your results. Jobs tried to get his people to do the same thing, but neither MacOS or the current Rhapsody could handle it without errors.

The got an account on your ISP's system and ran a packet scanner on your server, and still could not figure out how your Nerual Network was working because you used some sort of 8K key encryption, they are still trying to crack it. They have been reading your E-mail and most of your messages in PGP 2.6.2 encryption with 4K keys they are trying to crack with your public keys. From what they have seen in your graphical recognition software under Linux has been impressive and they are trying to put it into Rhapsody. They saw you type in, for example, "Show me 10 pictures of red cars" and the software searched the web and returned 10 picture files of red cars. The AI OS idea was thought of at Apple, but nobody was able to pull it off. You pulled off a graphic search engine that can find pictures based on text descriptions, amazing! They also saw the API calls being updated and not only updated, but fully documented in Hypertext! They couldn't see the code doing this, but they saw the files it created and it was completely object oriented and a bit in broken English, but readable and could be edited by a human to make developers understand it better. Jobs was freaking out over this stuff!

He wanted us and some other Macintosh developers back, said he wanted to change the world again and put Apple back on top of things again. We all nodded and agreeded with everything he said. When he wanted us to sign the papers and come back to work for Apple, we said that we have an agent representing us and would have to get back with him.

He wanted to copy your technology the way he copied the Xerox PARC technology and put it into MacOS X. He was scared by your June 21, 2001 projected release date that it would put Apple out of business. He knows that having a Smart OS will make any GUI based OS obsolite, and that would also include Windows as well! If you could make a smart graphic search engine, you could do all kinds of user friendly stuff. He said the Holy Grail appeared to be as smart as a puppy dog or small child, and couldn't understain how two guys in a company worth less than a million could pull this sort of thing off. He wanted to hire you, or destroy your company anyway he could. He knows about your Florida vacation and your friend at Disney there that you are trying to talk into financing your project, and that it would hurt Pixar if Disney decided to go with a cheaper alternative to computer animation based on your AI models. He said he could stop any Disney deal that you got made, so be careful!

Oh, our prank against Jobs? We left Polo Towers, found the oldest Hooker we could find, paid her $100 and got her a business suit. Told her that we worked for a computer company and our boss was a bit shy around women and asked us to get a hooker to help him get over his shyness. Bascially he wanted to roleplay, and that she would be our agent and come up to his room and give him the works. We think she was about 60, not sure as she wouldn't give her age or real name. Anyway we called Jobs up at his suite, said our agent would be coming up to talk to him, and that it looked like we might go back to Apple. We don't know what happened, but he took off like a bat out of Hell the next morning and we never heard from him again. We hope she did to him what he tried to do to us, because the salery he offered was too low, and he didn't want us to get any of the royalities from any of our work.

We played Craps and Black Jack and each took home about $8,000 to $10,000 because we can do numbers in our heads. Spent an extra few days, then headed back to New York and our Apartment Suites. We are working on a customizing GUI that the user can set the look and feel to by using a series of flowchart type of icon programming. We also tried the type of AI OS that you have been working on at Reboot, but didn't get very far. Our hats are off to both of you, nice work. By 2001, you might just have a "sane" version of HAL 9000! :)