This is Anton, Andy's long-time friend and business partner here at SoundSpectrum. Just wanted to introduce myself and thank you all for your patience over the last few days as we're working out all the minor glitches related to the new G-Force release. As you can imagine, it's been a ton of work to get it out the door because we're very small, but we're really psyched about it and hope you are as well.
Having 3.0 out the door makes me look back to when it all started back in college, and how it was almost all lost... So, back in the winter of 1999, Andy, myself, and a few other friends planned a ski trip to Vermont. Since we were on winter break, we were all driving up from various points in the Northeast and meeting up at Sugarbush, Vermont (Andy was driving in from Syracuse with a couple of others).
Andy had started working on WhiteCap just a few weeks before and was coding in the car on his Powerbook. The weather conditions were really bad and they lost control of the car and had a head-on collision (!!) at 40mph on their way to the lodge. Incredibly, no one was physically hurt. Unfortunately, at the time of impact, Andy's Powerbook flew out of his hands, broke the windshield, skidded on the highway, breaking into several pieces, and eventually ending up in a snowbank. Andy was crushed but couldn't do anything but gather all the pieces, patiently picking everything right down to the keyboard keys off the highway. When he got into the lodge and we learned all this, I felt really bad for him because I knew how excited he was about WhiteCap. To keep a long story short, Andy started putting the Powerbook together that night, piece by piece. I remember the display being propped up on a bag of potatoes on the dining table! And, incredibly, it turned on and still worked. Thus, WhiteCap was not lost! That's how close WhiteCap and G-Force came to not ever happening.
Speaking of that, Andy, you know what they say about backing stuff up
Anton
