this too shall pass.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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