Steve Jobs died last night! Noooo-no-no, some of you may argue that he didn’t pass away, that he merely stepped down as CEO and is still Chairman of the Board. Bullshit! He died, OK?!
*sniff*
Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco, California at the tender age of 1 and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian) of Mountain View, California, who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, whom they named Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian graduate student who later became a political science professor, and Joanne Simpson (née Schieble), an American graduate student who went on to become a speech language pathologist – later married, giving birth to and raising Jobs' biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson. Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, and frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, such as one in calligraphy, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later stated, "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
Little that he knew back then that in 39 years he'd be resigning as CEO!!
Others say he got reincarnated as Tim Cook! Bullshit! I want Stevie!!
*cries like a spoiled brat*
Who will tell me what kind of leafPhone to buy? Where will all the magic be now, mAple, where? How can mAple be magical if there's no more Stevie? Why did he abandon us, oh why? I say we all unplug our leafPads and leafPods and leafPhones and spend a moment of silence to commemorate his departure.
How could mAple ever expect to release a new thing this autumn without him? How will we know if it’s worth buying unless Steve Jobs tells us? I Don’t care what he does for mAple anymore... if he’s not selling the thing why would it matter? How will we know how to use the next mAple gadgets if he doesn’t showcase them in his turtleneck black shirt and blue jeans? What am I going to do with all this mAple stock I already invested in? How thin will the next generation of leafBook Airs will be now that there is no Steve Jobs? How do I charge my leafPad? How do I pinch-to-zoom? What color leafPod should I get? What’s keeping me from moving to Windows? I don’t know how I’ll get over this...if ever!
Steve Jobs, you will be be missed!
Little that he knew back then that in 39 years he'd be resigning as CEO!!
Others say he got reincarnated as Tim Cook! Bullshit! I want Stevie!!
*cries like a spoiled brat*
Who will tell me what kind of leafPhone to buy? Where will all the magic be now, mAple, where? How can mAple be magical if there's no more Stevie? Why did he abandon us, oh why? I say we all unplug our leafPads and leafPods and leafPhones and spend a moment of silence to commemorate his departure.
How could mAple ever expect to release a new thing this autumn without him? How will we know if it’s worth buying unless Steve Jobs tells us? I Don’t care what he does for mAple anymore... if he’s not selling the thing why would it matter? How will we know how to use the next mAple gadgets if he doesn’t showcase them in his turtleneck black shirt and blue jeans? What am I going to do with all this mAple stock I already invested in? How thin will the next generation of leafBook Airs will be now that there is no Steve Jobs? How do I charge my leafPad? How do I pinch-to-zoom? What color leafPod should I get? What’s keeping me from moving to Windows? I don’t know how I’ll get over this...if ever!
Steve Jobs, you will be be missed!