When I was in film school, a fellow student sent his demo reel to Syd. The student had a small portrait of himself printed on the cd sleeve.
Syd wrote the student the most bizarre love letter I have ever read in my life. Syd called him a beautiful boy and wanted "to build gingerbread houses with him." The student was deeply confused by the letter.
I attempted to make a photocopy of the love letter but my fellow student knew that I was not to be trusted.
Anyhoo, Syd Mead is a great artist and I hope he finds a nice boy.
I noticed that, too. I actually just got one of those from a friend last month, and I' pretty excited because there was a lot of good experimental audio software released for OS9.
I like this guy, but he doesn't really say much of anything beyond summarizing some Ray Kurzweil platitudes and talking about how future cars might have fewer than four wheels.