Tuesday, 22 March 2005 CST
While searching through the lore behind Clarus the Dogcow, I ran across an unexpected connection. Apple's technical note History & Peregrinations: The Dogcow Goes QuickTime VR contains a photo of someone standing in front of the Clarus, part of the icon garden on Apple's campus. I thought that looked a lot like my friend, Dave Polaschek. Dave worked at Apple for a time, so it was possible.
The caption in the technote confirms it is him, identifying him by name:
Figure 3 shows the Dogcow becoming even larger than the largest known DTS engineer, Dave Polaschek, and appearing along the way as a "lawn creature" on the Apple R & D campus in Cupertino, California.
Dave Polaschek isn't working at Apple anymore, but it certainly is amusing to see him forever enshrined in Apple folklore. You can track what he's up to on his blog Dave's Picks.
