Dead at age 65 — Paul Allen.
No, not a diary, just sharing the news.
Allen owned many things in the PacNW — Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trailblazers, a great deal of the most expensive real estate in the city of Seattle. He was, perhaps, the Wozniak to Gates’s Jobs … certainly deep in the background to the American and world populace. His philanthropy, though extensive by human standards, was infinitesimal next to the Bill & Melinda monster.
Allen was diagnosed years ago with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and was thought to have licked it. But it recently recurred, obviously in far greater strength.
To my knowledge, there had not been a whisper in the press about Paul Allen’s dire condition, so it comes as a real jolt.