As noted below: John Hodgman lives in Park Slope. For those who don’t know the name, he’s the PC guy in those funny Mac commercials. He’s also an author AND the subject of a story that was in the Brooklyn Paper by Gersh Kuntzman complete with a great pix by Julie Rosenberg. Here’s an excerpt.
The minor television celebrity is none other than John Hodgman, the humble2
Park Sloper who has achieved his renown through two hilarious, and
completely fake, trivia books (“The Areas of My Expertise” and the new
“More Information than You Require”), regular appearances as the
resident expert on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and a bit of
trifle as the physical embodiment of Windows-based computers in a
series of Apple commercials that have been viewed by more than 26
billion people worldwide3.Not that Hodgman resents those Apple ads, of course. They are almost
entirely responsible for his current renown, which includes a
nationwide book tour to support his new fake book, money to support the
lavish lifestyle to which he has become accustomed and spontaneous
conversations with people everywhere he goes. All this for a former
literary agent and one-time cheesemonger4.