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Years ago I met Jimmy Buffett. I was working at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, NJ and we (or rather, some real audio researchers) had developed a multi-microphone s

Years ago I met Jimmy Buffett. I was working at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, NJ and we (or rather, some real audio researchers) had developed a multi-microphone spatial recording rig that we wanted to use for streaming concerts. Buffett was interested in talking to us about streaming music to his Margaritaville locations. The talks went nowhere, but I had the pleasure of giving a demo to Jimmy Buffett -- who was really honestly impressed and picked out subtle details in the recording. The only other thing I remember about the experience was that he flew into New Jersey on his own seaplane (as in, he allegedly did the flying.)

anjel 3y ago
More likely than an allegation, Buffett was lucky enough to in fact be a pilot and owned a Grumman Widgeon seaplane[1] until he was lucky enough to survive abruptly decommissioning the plane[2] in 1994. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_G-44_Widgeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_G-44_Widgeon 2 https://www.accidents.app/summaries/accident/20001206X01974 https://www.accidents.app/summaries/accident/20001206X01974
616c 3y ago
Presumably into Morristown Municipal Airport?