Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

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.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/full/416941837.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF3XCCKACR3QDMOA&Expires=1317951640&Signature=VmyLYyvgFcvMBmFu1cJ%2FcFmuQjk%3D

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr75/KAKwit/UWRNr.jpg

ha

i have a better idea than burrito glue

though a cursory search indicates people in cupertino have already monetized that pun

@stevewoz
Steve Wozniak
After Bloomberg interview in the city, dinner and then we can crash. (@ Ruth's Chris Steak House) 4sq.com/rsKQuw

This is no time for your obtuse Twitter meta-jokes, can't you see people are grieving here

They should really consider putting a product back on the front page

I mean I know the world's still crying in unison but

ha

i liked kraftwerk's minimalist tribute on twitter: 'Danke, Steve Jobs'

straight, to the point, not a word out of place

ralf probably posted it from his iphone

http://www.residents.com/home/

Steve Jobs

I wasn't going to say anything. After all so many people are covering his accomplishments. But I thought it would be important to note how Steve Jobs has helped change and create The Residents.

Apple computers had a perspective that regular people should be able to do remarkable things that they would not normally be able to do if assisted by computers. Technicians should not be the exclusive controllers of that world.

The Residents have always been masters of using technology on a human scale. Ralph Records in the late '70's ran on an old Apple II. The software used was custom written by Cryptic. That system meant that Ralph could operate cheaper and cheaper meant it could exist on smaller margins.

Macintosh arrived in 1984 and went to work immediately creating graphics. Album covers from 1984's George & James to 2011's Coochie Brake have been done on Macintosh computers.

Cryptic and Ralph launched a bulletin board on-line system (BBS) on an Apple II in 1984 named Big Brother. It is the Big Brother which this site honors as our first venture into on-line interactivity. You can read more about Big Brother in The Last Word.

The Residents ran MIDI live on an old Apple II at the Snakey Wake in 1988. The following year they toured CUBE E carrying their entire studio which centered around a Mac II, the most powerful personal computer that existed at the time.

When Apple invented Quicktime, the wiz kids that actually did it were Residents fans. The original logo which was a big "Q" had a top hat to reference The Residents and the videos used to demo the software were the One-Minute Movies from The Commercial Album.

I was one of the people who appeared in the Apple "Think Different" campaign.

There is no way I can cover all the ways Apple and Steve Jobs impacted The Residents. I do think it fitting to conclude with the fact that Chuck on the Talking Light tour was controlling a Mac Air computer with an iPad that was running wirelessly on a local network utilizing an Airport, all Apple products, to make the statement that The Residents appreciation of the technology of Steve Jobs' company has never faltered.

Cryptic and The Residents join the long list of people who are saddened by the lose of Steve Jobs.

- Hardy Fox, The Cryptic Corporation

Ralph Records in the late '70's ran on an old Apple II. The software used was custom written by Cryptic

oh man this is totally pushing all of my nerd buttons

that is awesome

ok time for me to hit the sack

loving this cover of French daily Liberation:

http://journal.liberation.fr/api/libe/v2/paperpage/172124/?size=x500&format=jpg

Can already hear the lawyers rushing to translate various letters into French over that.

my brother did a "liveblog" (?) for the telegraph. thought he did a good job of collecting some of the less retweeted stuff, including some british interest things. quite a lot of this was new to me.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/steve-jobs/8809997/Steve-Jobs-dies-live-blog.html

http://artoftrolling.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/chatroulette-trolling-isee-what-you-did-there.jpg

There is some weird stuff out there on the interwebs

ha

http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/internet-memes-apple-does-not-support-flash.jpg

What that Hardy Fox says to me is that all the good stuff the Residents did had nothing to do with Apple.