Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

This image makes a lot of sense now.

http://www.clickcommunications.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Young-Steve-Jobs-.gif

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?pagewanted=all

OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.

that was great.

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.

"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!

OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.

― 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

you are criticizing the dude's last words? cold

just saying it didn't work so well to end the piece that way

but you can also think that I am pissing on his gravestone right now, I don't care

calling his life "the piece"? cold

but... it was so artistically done

anyway I don't see what's wrong about ending someone's eulogy with their hopeful last words

context matters: he was being shown exclusive pictures of the iphone 7

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

:|

Just noticed daringfireball.net is back to background-color: #4a525a :drudgesirens:

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"

If there had been an ugly computer in the room he could have gone the Oscar Wilde route

'oh wow' pretty moving to me.

WOW

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lliylcYtbV1qbg3ylo1_500.gif

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'

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

more absurdist than impressive

well yeah

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 :/

it seems like it would be hard to judge when exactly you are gonna be dying

like even if you have some killer last words prepared, you're still gonna need to pee...

'oh wow' pretty moving to me.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 03:50 (7 hours ago) Bookmark

^^
what a moving eulogy. poor guy.

maybe he was looking beyond his family to the restroom, and thinking "oh wow, I'm never going to make it over there"

imho, everyone's dying words should be freely made fun of on the internet

Most funerals I've been to are a good mix of reverence and levity.

IT IS ACCOMPLISHED

http://www.stevejobsthelostinterview.com/

jesus just put it on youtube dog

"Robert X. Cringely" (not his real name) is way too big a fan of himself for that

or release it on imax

it's a VHS transfer; it'd look pretty silly on imax

fuck you

D:

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.

wait is he still dead?????

I think he dies at the end

I bet the Woz did it

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell

real genius: the steve jobs story

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/Real_genius.jpg/220px-Real_genius.jpg

I had no idea Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson were siblings! Weird.

But I thought you knew everything [/alfred]

sorry

I had no idea Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson were siblings! Weird.

― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Monday, November 14, 2011 10:47 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

in all fairness, neither did they