what kind of asshole basically solicits parking tickets and then decides not to pay them? this guy seems like a crazy nihilist/egotist sometimes.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 28 October 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
"sometimes"
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 28 October 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING
Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked. The doctors looked at Powell, puzzled. She was finally able to distract him so they could put on the mask. He also hated the oxygen monitor they put on his finger. He told them it was ugly and too complex. He suggested ways it could be designed more simply. "He was very attuned to every nuance of the environment and objects around him, and that drained him," Powell recalled.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 October 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
my life's goal is to troll that hard
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 October 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I believe in u
― Hardy Rock Anthem (crüt), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
This image makes a lot of sense now.
http://www.clickcommunications.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Young-Steve-Jobs-.gif
― lukas, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?pagewanted=all
― max, Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 30 October 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
that was great.
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, 30 October 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Uninvited to the ball, he drove the third or fourth iteration of his same black sports car to Next, where he and his team were quietly inventing the platform on which Tim Berners-Lee would write the program for the World Wide Web. parked in the handicapped spot unrepentantly.
― dayo, Sunday, 30 October 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
"Why didn't anonymous apple employees call the cops and get it towed over and over again. Would've been hilarious."
i think i read somewhere that old buddy wozniak did just that, and it apparently was hilarious!
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 30 October 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
― James Mitchell, Sunday, October 30, 2011 3:04 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark
this was a great obit but can't help that this ending was the textbook definition of bathos
― dayo, Sunday, 30 October 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
you are criticizing the dude's last words? cold
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
just saying it didn't work so well to end the piece that way
― dayo, Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
but you can also think that I am pissing on his gravestone right now, I don't care
calling his life "the piece"? cold
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
but... it was so artistically done
― dayo, Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
anyway I don't see what's wrong about ending someone's eulogy with their hopeful last words
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
context matters: he was being shown exclusive pictures of the iphone 7
― iatee, Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
I guess if I were writing his eulogy and I had that piece of information available to me I probably wouldn't use it to end the piece because opportunistic ppl on the INTERNET would be able to use it to make fun of him xp
― dayo, Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
:|
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Just noticed daringfireball.net is back to background-color: #4a525a :drudgesirens:
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
I hadn't been moved by his death till I read that eulogy, and I find OH WOW OH WOW OH WOW pretty great last words. Puts me in mind of "My God, it's full of stars"
― Alba, Monday, 31 October 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
If there had been an ugly computer in the room he could have gone the Oscar Wilde route
― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
'oh wow' pretty moving to me.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
WOW
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lliylcYtbV1qbg3ylo1_500.gif
― How many socks do you 'deploy' ? (buzza), Monday, 31 October 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
i hope if the last thing out of my mouth before i die is something that's barely even words like "oh wow" that people will quote whatever coherent sentence that preceded that as my 'profound last words'
― mylo & xylotis (some dude), Monday, 31 October 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
Intubated, when he couldn’t talk, he asked for a notepad. He sketched devices to hold an iPad in a hospital bed. He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment. He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit.
dang
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 October 2011 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
more absurdist than impressive
― iatee, Monday, 31 October 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
well yeah
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 October 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
there was a thing online recently from a nurse where it said that perhaps unsurprisingly, last words are more often than not queries/concerns regarding using the bathroom facilities. "i need the bathroom" or words to that effect far outweighed any other kind. that's only um, natural i guess :/
― piscesx, Monday, 31 October 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
it seems like it would be hard to judge when exactly you are gonna be dying
― iatee, Monday, 31 October 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
like even if you have some killer last words prepared, you're still gonna need to pee...
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 03:50 (7 hours ago) Bookmark
^^what a moving eulogy. poor guy.
― Local Christian Blues (schlump), Monday, 31 October 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
maybe he was looking beyond his family to the restroom, and thinking "oh wow, I'm never going to make it over there"
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
imho, everyone's dying words should be freely made fun of on the internet
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 31 October 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Most funerals I've been to are a good mix of reverence and levity.
― mh, Monday, 31 October 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
IT IS ACCOMPLISHED
― omar little, Monday, 31 October 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.stevejobsthelostinterview.com/
― am0n, Friday, 11 November 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
jesus just put it on youtube dog
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 11 November 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
"Robert X. Cringely" (not his real name) is way too big a fan of himself for that
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 11 November 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
or release it on imax
― conrad, Friday, 11 November 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
it's a VHS transfer; it'd look pretty silly on imax
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 11 November 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
fuck you
― conrad, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
D:
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 11 November 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
The book is ace. I was expecting gushy worship of the bloke but it's not that at all. Very much a profile of a businessman. Huge (I'm only halfway through it) but also very entertaining.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
wait is he still dead?????
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 November 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
I think he dies at the end
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
I bet the Woz did it
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 November 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link