Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

false dichotomy.

Missed the onion's second attempt this morning http://www.theonion.com/articles/last-american-who-knew-what-the-fuck-he-was-doing,26268/

http://mobile.theonion.com/articles/last-american-who-knew-what-the-fuck-he-was-doing,26268/?mobile=true

I think, more than anything, I admire his style in wearing a sweater tucked in without a belt

fuck cancer you guys

― ilx user 'silby' (silby), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 8:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Boy, way to go out on a limb here.

Bill Magill, ladies and gentlemen.

I think, more than anything, I admire his style in wearing a sweater tucked in without a belt

― dayo, Thursday, October 6, 2011 4:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I agree with this. There is no way i could keep my pants up if i tried this. What he pulled off here was incredible.

I take that back

Bill Magill's less of a "fuck cancer you guys" type and more of a "fuck prostitutes you guys" type

Not sure the two are mutually exclusive.

i'm getting tested to see if i can donate some of my bone marrow to this kid, in san francisco:

http://tumblr.amitgupta.com/post/11102689089/two-weeks-ago-i-got-a-call-from-my-doctor-who-id

don't know him, but poor guy--that is a raw deal

bears repeating: fuck cancer

he sounded amazing today on fresh air talking about the intersection of computing and liberal arts

I mean, Jobs was exactly the same Jobs at NeXT, and made great products, but basically failed. If Apple hadn't also been failing harder and bought him to save themselves, he'd have gone under on that one.

Yet put the same guy back into Apple with basically the same vision and in under 15 years it was the world's biggest company.

There's a lot being made about him learning from his mistakes atm.

btw his biography is the main reason ebooks are great – I do not need to be seen in public reading it

Speaking of which, from Isaacson's preview:

It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. (...) I assumed that he was still in the middle of an oscillating career that had many more ups and downs left, I demurred. Not now, I said. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire.

But I later realized that he had called me just before he was going to be operated on for cancer for the first time.

xp: "I will read this from the anonymity of my iPad."

THAT I had wondered about for a while, especially when the book's release date was brought forward nine months.

xp lol I meant my kindle

http://www.theonion.com/articles/apple-user-acting-like-his-dad-just-died,26270/

also from Isaacson:

Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? “I wanted my kids to know me,” he said. “I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.”

xp that is great and 100% otm

eric schmidt:

I should tell you this story. We’re in a meeting at NeXT, before Steve went back to Apple. I’ve got my chief scientist. After the meeting, we leave and try to unravel the argument to figure out where Steve was wrong—because he was obviously wrong. And we couldn’t do it. We’re standing in the parking lot. He sees us from his office, and he comes back out to argue with us some more. It was over a technical issue involving Objective C, a computer language. Why he would care about this was beyond me. I’ve never seen that kind of passion.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/eric-schmidt-on-steve-jobs-10062011.html

Yo Bill Magill, there's like a whole "fuck cancer" thread if you want to stop by and ruin that too: This is the thread where we curse cancer.

http://i.imgur.com/xq6Su.jpg

ron wayne: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/05/apple_co_founder_says_time_with_steve_jobs_was_a_great_privilege_of_his_life.html

Wayne has taken a unique place in Apple's history, as he sold off his 10 percent stake in the company for a total of $2,300, just 12 days after its founding. In the ensuing years, he has had to answer numerous times whether he regrets the decision, given that his stake in the company would now be worth roughly $35 billion.

man, jobs backlash on my facebook is everywhere. i got some cranky facebook friends.

robert scoble: http://scobleizer.com/2011/10/06/my-apology-to-tim-cook-and-remembering-steve-jobs/

Tonight I was driving near the Cupertino/Sunnyvale border when I heard the news on KGO Radio. Steve Jobs had died. I shot a rainbow over Silicon Valley shortly after I heard the news

This makes it seem like he got out a gun and shot a rainbow for the hell of it. While driving.

Shot a rainbow just for snorin'.

loool ned

http://wallres.saiswa.com/bg/venkman/g/Artistic-Rainbow-Gun.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgYAwDORo4

(sorry)

Tonight I was driving near the Cupertino/Sunnyvale border when I heard the news on KGO Radio. Steve Jobs had died. I shot a rainbow over Silicon Valley shortly after I heard the news
This makes it seem like he got out a gun and shot a rainbow for the hell of it. While driving.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 6, 2011 3:05 PM (17 minutes ago)

There was a lot of shooting in Cupertino yesterday:
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_19053900?source=most_viewed

Too true, sadly.

The whole 'hey did you know Steve Jobs was part-Syrian' news is going around again, thus:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-son-of-a-syrian-is-embraced-in-the-arab-world/

Which links to this story and interview with his real father and good god, that's a family resemblance for sure:

http://www.razorianfly.com/wp-content/uploads/screen-shot-2011-08-28-at-1-59-02-pm.png

“This might sound strange, though, but I am not prepared, even if either of us was on our deathbeds, to pick up the phone to call him,” Jandali said.

“Steve will have to do that, as the Syrian pride in me does not want him ever to think I am after his fortune,” he said.

“Now I just live in hope that, before it is too late, he will reach out to me, because even to have just one coffee with him just once would make me a very happy man,” he said.

“I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t sadden me to have not been part of my son’s incredible journey,” he said. “What father wouldn’t think that? And I would think that even if he was not the head of a hugely successful company.”

shoot a rainbow in memory of hunter s thompson

i was thinking today about the contrast between mobileme and google docs, and wondering whether it would suit google to be more like apple, and vice versa.

also i think there is a lot of truth in the onion article! i realized today my dad is steve jobs age and suddenly i got really sad, maybe as sad as mom was acting! :-(

Apologies if someone already posted this... thread moving p quick.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v151/cork118/wbc.jpg

Apparently she went on to say "Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell. God created iPhone for that purpose!"

o_0

http://www.drben.net/files/China/Source_Materials/BooksALL/Communism/Mao-ManNotGod-FrThQ.jpg

...rebels?

Wait so Jobs taught sin but god created the iphone?

WWWAAAHHHTTT

Do not stare into the logic abyss that is the Phelpseses, lest it eat your brain.

In a few interviews, Jobs hinted at his early experience with the psychedelic drug LSD. Of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Jobs said: "I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
The connection has enough weight that Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who first synthesized (and took) LSD, appealed to Jobs for funding for research about the drug's therapeutic use.
In a book interview, Jobs called his experience with the drug "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." As Jobs himself has suggested, LSD may have contributed to the "think different" approach that still puts Apple's designs a head above the competition.

http://hatethefuture.tumblr.com/post/11101282719/poll-how-do-you-feel-about-steve-jobs-uploading

http://i.imgur.com/Sj0nb.png

Markoff wrote a pretty good book on the early connections between LSD, counterculture, and the early computer industry.

I thought up this shit called Burrito Glue when I was on acid. It holds your tortilla together.

i'm stealing your idea.

When I did this the sky looked properly round like the curvature of the Earth, rather than the sort of flat arc that we all perceive it to be. That impression lasted for about six weeks.