So, a couple points. He uses wget to get pages because he's on the road almost constantly. His life is in his email, and he tries to respond to all of it, but

So, a couple points. He uses wget to get pages because he's on the road almost constantly. His life is in his email, and he tries to respond to all of it, but gets a TON, and responds pretty quickly. He does this partly because he's using his own email client and his own editor, both of which he's been using for 35 years or so. In Emacs he has a ton of abbrevs for various common responses. Because he travels all the time, he has a lot of experience of what works and what doesn't work, and is trying to make things as smooth as possible. 45 minutes of photos after a speech isn't his ego, its him asking the organizers to make sure they have plenty of time after the event for all the people who'll want him to sign a book or their laptop, or talk to him about free software. I went to Brazil with him on a trip and I'm pretty sure there were photos and signing and things for a few hours after. We had to have a dedicated photographer to cope with the sheer number of people. This is a guy who travels so much, someone bought him a parrot as a gift because they thought he'd like it, and it forced him to ask people to not buy animals as gifts. That's the scale of what he's dealing with.