It's not as dry as it sounds: it releases an impressive number of books and manuals a year, ranging from tech to travel, and the 54-year old so-called meme-peddler from Sebastopol, CA, has become the guru of technologists around the world.
He has honed his skills as a persuasive speaker working as an auctioneer, a drapery salesman and, once, as a chicken peddler, selling from the back of his father's car.
Her father, Albert, was an itinerant peddler descended from peasants and tavern keepers, and her mother, Jeanne, was a seamstress with a fragile constitution that was further strained by a vagabond's life, a faithless husband of incorrigible charm, and the birth of six children.
The eyes peer at us suspiciously from behind ancient casement windows and over a peddler's tray, from crowded schoolrooms and desolate street corners".
On a recent visit, my wife, Julie Dressner, and I chatted our way from peddler to peddler on Pilies Street in the heart of the old city.
