Maybe it will die down, but day one was too much. I knew that there
was some sort of cult of personality around Steve Jobs and his
products, but I was surprised recently to find a _shrine_ (for lack of
a better word) honoring Apple Computers across the atrium from the
campus book store at the Jesuit/Catholic University at which I work.
The next thing should have been to replace all those crosses and
crucifixes on campus with Apple logos.
Then Steve Jobs dies. I'm not surprised that the New York TIMES
dedicated a full page to his obituary. If anyone deserves such an
honor, it would be him. But then US National Public Radio had an
_hour-long_ homage yesterday afternoon! (It was nice: I got a chance
to listen to a Hangdogs CD while driving.) And today, the NY TIMES
crossword puzzle -- my daily shot of heroin -- was dedicated to him.
And of course they had yet another article or three about "what will
Apple do without Jobs?" (the started when he retired). (I hate the way
that the official media drive things into the ground: when are we
going to start hearing about how Generalissimo Francisco Franco is
still dead?)
I guess I care more about jobs than Jobs.
Remember the Lisa! Remember Xerox PARC! ("Founded in 1970 as a
division of Xerox Corporation, PARC has been responsible for such well
known and important developments as laser printing, Ethernet, the
modern personal computer, graphical user interface (GUI),
object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, amorphous silicon
(a-Si) applications, and advancing very-large-scale-integration (VLSI)
for semiconductors." -- the Wikipedia. And they invented the computer
mouse.)
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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