Is Jef Raskin on a Book Tour?

Couple of interesting, but oddly coincidental, interviews with Jef "Father of the Mac" Raskin. Maybe he's on a book tour, or something.

MacUser:

"MU: Which person do you most admire?

JR: For what attribute? Once again you ask a question that linearises a complex matter. I can name many. Let's start with people named George: George Cantor for moving infinity out of philosophy into mathematics, George Washington for showing how a leader should relinquish power, and George Bernard Shaw for his humanity... Or we can do it by subject and admire Aristotle, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein for their pulling from nature comprehensible laws; or Euclid, Gauss and Gˆdel for their contributions to mathematics; or people who have influenced me very directly, in which case I'd mention my very admirable parents and the teacher who taught me to be intellectually independent, L R Genise; or how about Claude Shannon without whose work on information theory I would have been lost."

Guardian:

Gadgets?

My favourite is a Garrett Wade knife sharpener made out of a block of tungsten carbide. On the net, I search for sites when I need specific information. When my son wanted to know what camera to buy, I read camera review sites; to find a bush for our garden, I looked up gardening sites. I treasure the wide scope of the web.

And here's a snippet from the archives of Wired News:

"As the creator of the Macintosh project, and the guy who named it 'Macintosh' after his beloved McIntosh apples, I can firmly say that pot had nothing to do with it," Raskin said in an e-mail. "Unlike our previous president, I have never even brought a reefer to lip, much less inhaled it. I also do not use alcohol, tobacco or any other recreational drugs, and never have."

Update: Freelance journalist Jason Walsh writes, "Jef isn't on a book tour as far as I'm aware. The interview published in yesterday's Guardian was scheduled back in September to tie in with the launch of the new iMac. That MacUser put their old interview (dated 11th June) online simultaneously is just a happy coincidence.