Friday, October 7, 2011

Missing Steve Jobs




I've been grieving the death of Steve Jobs. It's a little like losing Mozart, just different fields of expertise. I watched him give presentations on HULU, read the quotes, watched the speech at Stanford. It's unusual for a tekki (with a little help from Steve Wozniak, of course) to have aesthetic sensibilities as well as performance abilities. And good looks. I don't care if he was a prima donna occasionally.

His death reminds me that I never owned a PC. Didn't even come close. In 1984, I bought my first MacIntosh 128 (now in the Charles Plummer museum) from the money I made writing a Care Bear Cousin book. Three thousand big ones. That's what I got paid, and that's what the MacIntosh cost. That original Mac saved only seven pages in a file, but it was so much better than a typewriter. Although, that initial dot matrix printer was hideous.

I had one of those flowery-colored Macs too--loved those colors. And I had the big flat screen with no other gadgetry to hide. And I'm now on my second MacBook, which I adore.

I don't have an IPod or an IPad or IPhone. Maybe sometime. Maybe not. I don't like to be that attached.

Jobs's death also reminds me of living in NYC and frequently visiting the glass Apple store on 59th Street and 5th Avenue, a store that was open 24-hours a day. And no matter what time you went, there were always other people there.

Thank you Steve Jobs for all things Apple. Rest in Peace.




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4 comments:

  1. MarciaOctober 7, 2011 at 8:56 PM

    We had a grape imac. What color was yours? We've always had macs too with the exception of one PC laptop that Doug ended up giving away because we hated it. I also heart my macbook.

    AND!!! Holy cow! You wrote a Care Bears book? I am so sad I never knew this!

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  2. JillOctober 7, 2011 at 9:47 PM

    My grandma had that Care Bear Cousins book at her house. True story.
    Steve Jobs was amazing. My friend with an autistic daughter said she'd like to build a shrine to him because of the wonders the iPad has worked with her little girl. Rest in Peace, indeed.

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  3. Bonnie WhiteOctober 9, 2011 at 1:11 AM

    We have so few visionaries in our world and his passing feels a littler emptier.

    Care Bears? There is so much to know about you Louise.

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  4. C. C. FawsonOctober 23, 2011 at 3:36 PM

    I Love you more now that i know you brought a Care Bear Cousins book into the world. A Walk to Grow On...sounds deep.

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