tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post8154773147534061618..comments2024-03-29T00:04:32.434-05:00Comments on Althouse: "We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, 'What is the purpose of a sofa?'"Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63230153606077137872011-11-07T23:22:41.409-06:002011-11-07T23:22:41.409-06:00Job is to technology what Warwhol was to pop art, ...Job is to technology what Warwhol was to pop art, i.e. a clever marketer rather than generator of original ideas. I suspect that much of his pecularities were more of the pose than anything else. However, success lends itself to myth creation, as well as to many parazites feeding on it, like jornos, biographers, etc, who are interested in maintaining the myth.Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15401100627066769252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59258490306504885892011-11-07T21:24:52.801-06:002011-11-07T21:24:52.801-06:00Goes to show that you can overthink the hell out o...Goes to show that you can overthink the hell out of decisions and still make the wrong ones, doesn't it?<br /><br />I admired the man's creativity, but would I have wanted to spend 5 minutes with him? Nope.Tarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06472104751888958606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50018580875781510722011-11-07T20:37:33.136-06:002011-11-07T20:37:33.136-06:00Steve Jobs didn't bathe!
He also walked baref...Steve Jobs didn't bathe!<br /><br />He also walked barefoot.<br /><br />At Apple someone told him he smelled very bad, and at least he should wash his feet.<br /><br />So he stuck his feet (one by one) into the toilet bowl. <br /><br />The only thing about Steve Jobs is that he was spectacularly good looking.<br /><br />So was Marlon Brando (in his 20's.) And, he'd bet people he went to dinner with ... that he could get the waitress to screw him THAT NIGHT!<br /><br />How does that happen?<br /><br />FANTASIES.<br /><br />You meet someone who scampers in your fantasies.<br /><br />But it takes a very strong stomach to stay!<br /><br />Oh, yeah. And, Steve Jobs ENJOYED being weird! He loved the affect it had on people! <br /><br />If he had added furniture ... you might have thought if you got invited into his house ... that you could sit down and relax!<br /><br />As to the name "APPLE" ... the man thought he was like Adam. And, the APPLE WAS EVIL!<br /><br />Steve Jobs was a very sick man, before he got cancer!<br /><br />At least, now, I can see WHY he got fired!<br /><br />As to the company's success?<br /><br />Apple had few distributors. They all pocketed huge profits! And, unlike Microsoft, who allowed others to develop applications for the Microsoft platform ... Jobs was so stingy ... he held to different criteria.<br /><br />I pity his wife. And, I pity their kids!Carol_Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629820011087370488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66850482091116348692011-11-07T16:33:26.123-06:002011-11-07T16:33:26.123-06:00The part about not opening his body proves that yo...The part about not opening his body proves that you can be really smart about somethings and dumb as a stone about others. And Steve, guess what, you're still dead. Not almost dead, or partly dead but really really really dead. Forever.glennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00993381999736874161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57626598579006963692011-11-07T16:09:59.858-06:002011-11-07T16:09:59.858-06:00For anyone who's interested, and lives near a ...For anyone who's interested, and lives near a major metropolitan area, there will be screenings of a 'lost' Steve Jobs interview from 1995 on November 16th and 17th. <a href="http://wordsfromcoketown.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-was-so-blinded-by-first-thing-they.html" rel="nofollow">Here's some details</a>. The interview was taped for a PBS special and ran for 70 minutes, but only 10 minutes of footage was aired, and the tape was assumed lost until some guy in the UK found a copy recently.coketownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257222645480570714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22856213469788005612011-11-07T15:14:32.548-06:002011-11-07T15:14:32.548-06:00"Empty space can get really *empty*."
O..."<i>Empty space can get really *empty*.</i>"<br /><br />Once upon a time, we bought a couch and chair set from Costco (queue all the "did you have to buy it in packages of 6?" jokes...) After about 6 months one of the seams in the couch started to separate, so we just took it back (no-questions asked return policies are great, and anyway it clearly <i>was</i> a manufacturing defect.)<br /><br />But picking out a replacement was a lot of work, as was picking out the returned one in the first place, so days stretched into weeks into a month and a half...<br /><br />My wife did kinda enjoy the lack of clutter. For my part, I didn't care about that, but was starting to lobby to keep it that way for a while longer just for the entertainment value. <br /><br />You see, our two oldest were in 9th and 7th grade at the time, and it was a great source of (poker-faced) amusement to us to have some friend of theirs come over for the first time since the emptying of the living room, see them do a double-take, and then conceal their surprise and say nothing about it. I suppose there were rumors around down about us about to be foreclosed on or something... :-)Kirk Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05921711310191924997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56863627627436971142011-11-07T15:12:46.524-06:002011-11-07T15:12:46.524-06:00pm317,
"Just now at our heldesk..."
Th...pm317,<br /><br />"<i>Just now at our <b>heldesk</b>...</i>"<br /><br />That has my vote for typo of the [your favorite time period here]!Kirk Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05921711310191924997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49588966550070474862011-11-07T13:38:39.712-06:002011-11-07T13:38:39.712-06:00Most people are not techies and do not want to hav...Most people are not techies and do not want to have to get inside the guts of their computers or other devices to make them work, just as most people are not hot rodders or car hobbyists who <i>want</i> to get inside the engines (and exteriors) of their cars to make them something other (and more) than what came off the assembly line.<br /><br />Most people want their computers to work like radios or tvs or toaster ovens: you plug 'em in and you turn 'em on and you push a button or two and they produce the desired output.<br /><br />Jobs had this quite obvious insight early on and worked toward this sort of transparent functionality from the start. Tech geeks who sneer at the "closed system" of Apple devices are latter day hot rodders who do not understand their passion for tinkering is not shared by most users of computers and related devices.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69152602081509084402011-11-07T13:29:45.690-06:002011-11-07T13:29:45.690-06:00The perfect is the enemy of the good.
And once th...<i>The perfect is the enemy of the good.</i><br /><br />And once that truth has genuinely been internalized a person can never again seriously entertain a single proposal emanating from the utopian Left. Which makes Althouse's possible second vote for Obama a thing of wonder. Of course the answer is that Obama isn't a pure leftist. No, he's triangulating between the insane freak Stalinist/Cookie Left and the Reid/Pelosi/garage scary clown Left, har har har.ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36234618800117527802011-11-07T13:28:20.179-06:002011-11-07T13:28:20.179-06:00"Alex said...
Yet there are 250 million iOS d..."Alex said...<br />Yet there are 250 million iOS devices in the world. I guess most people don't care about opening up the thing."<br /><br />And the people in Jonestown didn't care what was in the Kool-Aid.Curious Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440726941494085334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69944299216401145952011-11-07T13:25:33.900-06:002011-11-07T13:25:33.900-06:00He also didn't want to make his computer syste...<i>He also didn't want to make his computer systems open either. The latest example is the ipad/ipod where you can only buy software approved by apple. </i><br /><br />Yet there are 250 million iOS devices in the world. I guess most people don't care about opening up the thing.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11205752419540502278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59432974380694542512011-11-07T13:18:52.641-06:002011-11-07T13:18:52.641-06:00A couch is something to hold the pillows that will...<i>A couch is something to hold the pillows that will cradle your butt several feet off the ground <br /></i>A coach, also, but those aren't pillows.Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21396335677404368382011-11-07T13:14:38.828-06:002011-11-07T13:14:38.828-06:00Lots of weird stories coming out now about this gu...<i>Lots of weird stories coming out now about this guy. </i><br /><br />I also recently read the Isaacson biography. A GREAT read. Shows Jobs for what he was, warts and all. But I came away from it being in many ways considerably more impressed with Jobs than I was beforehand, mainly with his focus, intensity, and drive. Say what you want about him, but the man was relentless. And by all accounts he didn't do it for the money (although he became very wealthy along the way). He did it for his own internalized sense of purity.Spread Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02779141814472406229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71950788247080818452011-11-07T13:13:35.358-06:002011-11-07T13:13:35.358-06:00"We spent a lot of time standing around....&q..."We spent a lot of time standing around...."<br /><br /><i>Sofa King good<br /></i>Not if someone's faking.Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90944860337231699202011-11-07T13:06:00.959-06:002011-11-07T13:06:00.959-06:00In the 1960s I found most of the anti-war movement...In the 1960s I found most of the anti-war movement --and later its 2000s incarnation-- to suffer mightily under the Perfect is the Enemy of Good analysis.Spread Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02779141814472406229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38493359907809027282011-11-07T13:05:30.516-06:002011-11-07T13:05:30.516-06:00". “I really didn’t want them to open up my b...<i>". “I really didn’t want them to open up my body...” </i><br /><br />He also didn't want to make his computer systems open either. The latest example is the ipad/ipod where you can only buy software approved by apple. <br /><br />That is totally weird. They say genius is akin to insanity. Maybe so.ws4whgfbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619525154425139315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44030063773328113372011-11-07T12:55:07.433-06:002011-11-07T12:55:07.433-06:00Jobs was too smart by half. Overconfident in all ...Jobs was too smart by half. Overconfident in all his positions. The last one did him in.Humperdinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08765464624483404218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17464700813192396762011-11-07T12:47:37.025-06:002011-11-07T12:47:37.025-06:00He sure didn't mind taking the liver that migh...He sure didn't mind taking the liver that might have saved someone else, even though he'd doomed himself already.<br /><br />I wonder if that liver would even have been given to an "everyman" who actually BEEN next in line and made the same cancer decision Jobs made. I'm sure they would have told him to fuck off, he'd made his bed and given it to someone who wanted to LIVE.<br /><br />Boy, that pisses me off, "genius who made pretty, useful things" or not.tree hugging sisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00757588102837479325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36737000419710655182011-11-07T12:35:17.078-06:002011-11-07T12:35:17.078-06:00Jamboree, that's a really good point. Neither ...Jamboree, that's a really good point. Neither my inaccessible macbook battery nor my inaccesible iPhone battery can get me through a workday. Why was Jobs obsessed with not letting me open up his perfect enclosures? Now we at least have some insight.Rick Lockridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429370469535867817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84411786378172578312011-11-07T12:32:59.973-06:002011-11-07T12:32:59.973-06:00Steve Jobs first came to my attention in a Wired a...Steve Jobs first came to my attention in a Wired article in about 1995 or 1996 before he went back to Apple. I had been living in LA and desperately needed a break from the inherent skeeviness of the Industry. <br /><br />The article had a quote from him along the lines of this couch issue, that he and Laurene had been in the market for a new washing machine and sat around the dinner table discussing the purchase "as a family" for weeks.<br /><br />This just cracked me up. Here's this rich, attractive guy with attitude and he enjoys sitting around the dinner table deriving the essence of washing machines "as a family".<br /><br />I found it quite refreshing, really, assuming it was true and it looks like it was. He could have been skeeving about in Thailand with bags of cocaine and 10-yr-old boys, you know?jamboreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072654852275348264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17862350907632690312011-11-07T12:28:02.826-06:002011-11-07T12:28:02.826-06:00So I should quit waiting for the iSofa 1.0 and jus...<i>So I should quit waiting for the iSofa 1.0 and just go over to Steinhafels...</i><br /><br />Wait it out. It will be epic!Triangle Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02287119175364820011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60991662415743194902011-11-07T12:21:05.552-06:002011-11-07T12:21:05.552-06:00Actually *Steve's* devices were notoriously ha...Actually *Steve's* devices were notoriously hard to open. I believe back in the Woz days, his machines were more expandable.jamboreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072654852275348264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18805190902703948132011-11-07T12:16:36.151-06:002011-11-07T12:16:36.151-06:00Okay, I'll play.
A couch is something to hold...Okay, I'll play.<br /><br />A couch is something to hold the pillows that will cradle your butt several feet off the ground so that you aren't wallowing about the well-trod floor like an animal.<br /><br />Regarding the disinclination towards surgery: if they haven't covered it in the book, apple devices have always been notoriously closed and adverse to being opened, expanded, or tampered with in any way. It's harder to do (than PCs), you voided the warranty, etc.jamboreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072654852275348264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67822678719735401572011-11-07T12:16:05.009-06:002011-11-07T12:16:05.009-06:00"The perfect quote for a morning when the hea...<i>"The perfect quote for a morning when the headlines tell us that an Iran obsessed with wiping Israel off the face of the Earth is about to go nuclear...."</i><br /><br />Do you believe everything the headlines tell you? <br /><br />You sound like you're quoting John Bolton or Hillary Clinton or some other bellicose, agenda-driven untrustworthy source.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-7686145365327641932011-11-07T12:15:37.959-06:002011-11-07T12:15:37.959-06:00"I met Paul Erdos a couple of times, and have..."I met Paul Erdos a couple of times, and have an Erdos number of 2. There was really nothing admirable about him, in my opinion. Admiration should be reserved for a well-lived and well-balanced life. His was neither."<br /><br />And Steve Jobs?MikeRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00127456522803816485noreply@blogger.com