http://wallres.saiswa.com/bg/venkman/g/Artistic-Rainbow-Gun.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgYAwDORo4
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
(sorry)
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
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 newsThis 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
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
“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.”
“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.”
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
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! :-(
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
Apologies if someone already posted this... thread moving p quick.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v151/cork118/wbc.jpg
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.drben.net/files/China/Source_Materials/BooksALL/Communism/Mao-ManNotGod-FrThQ.jpg
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
...rebels?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wait so Jobs taught sin but god created the iphone?
WWWAAAHHHTTT
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 7 October 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
Do not stare into the logic abyss that is the Phelpseses, lest it eat your brain.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 7 October 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Moonbear Currency (admrl), Friday, 7 October 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://hatethefuture.tumblr.com/post/11101282719/poll-how-do-you-feel-about-steve-jobs-uploading
http://i.imgur.com/Sj0nb.png
― dayo, Friday, 7 October 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
Markoff wrote a pretty good book on the early connections between LSD, counterculture, and the early computer industry.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 7 October 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
I thought up this shit called Burrito Glue when I was on acid. It holds your tortilla together.
― errant flynn, Friday, 7 October 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'm stealing your idea.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 7 October 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 7 October 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/full/416941837.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF3XCCKACR3QDMOA&Expires=1317951640&Signature=VmyLYyvgFcvMBmFu1cJ%2FcFmuQjk%3D
― alan2dyk (some dude), Friday, 7 October 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr75/KAKwit/UWRNr.jpg
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 7 October 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 October 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
i have a better idea than burrito glue
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Friday, 7 October 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
though a cursory search indicates people in cupertino have already monetized that pun
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Friday, 7 October 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
@stevewozSteve Wozniak After Bloomberg interview in the city, dinner and then we can crash. (@ Ruth's Chris Steak House) 4sq.com/rsKQuw
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 October 2011 05:29 (twelve years ago) link
This is no time for your obtuse Twitter meta-jokes, can't you see people are grieving here
― Moonbear Currency (admrl), Friday, 7 October 2011 05:46 (twelve years ago) link
They should really consider putting a product back on the front page
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 7 October 2011 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
I mean I know the world's still crying in unison but
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 7 October 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
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
― geeta, Friday, 7 October 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
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
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 7 October 2011 06:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― geeta, Friday, 7 October 2011 06:34 (twelve years ago) link
loving this cover of French daily Liberation:
http://journal.liberation.fr/api/libe/v2/paperpage/172124/?size=x500&format=jpg
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 7 October 2011 08:26 (twelve years ago) link
Can already hear the lawyers rushing to translate various letters into French over that.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 7 October 2011 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― caek, Friday, 7 October 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/internet-memes-apple-does-not-support-flash.jpg
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
What that Hardy Fox says to me is that all the good stuff the Residents did had nothing to do with Apple.
― everything, Friday, 7 October 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Acting like life is a big commercial...
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, so there is this Japanese restaurant that I used to frequent often in the late 00s and Jobs would often be there (but not Woz lol).
Rumor had it he was quite tight with the owners, possibly helping bankroll the place when it opened.
They announced they were closing about 2 weeks ago.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 7 October 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
5by5: http://5by5.tv/specials/2
― markers, Friday, 7 October 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
"Steve Jobs was certainly not a singular man. He was not an—he was an island that touched so many people."—Sarah Palin in an interview with Fox News’ Greta van Susteren, Oct. 5, 2011.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
our future President
― the tax avocado (DJP), Friday, 7 October 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
he was an island that touched so many people
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/politics/lost_smoke_monster_post.jpg
― DaTruf (Nicole), Friday, 7 October 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Friday, 7 October 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahaaaa
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
+1
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 October 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
i mean maybe if steve jobs actually invented a bunch of shit instead of just marketing it to people― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 11:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 11:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 October 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
I got into that debate on another thread about Jeff Bezos. With Steve Jobs, there are stories going back to the early Macintosh days where he worked day-to-day with teams that were developing products and prodded them into different decisions and guided development. There's also always been a strong sense that Ive is his designer, Cook was his supply chain man, and so on. I never got the impression that the last decade of Apple was a system where you could rise just by doing well -- you had to do things the Jobs way.
― ( ) (mh), Friday, 7 October 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link