CNN Money has a collection of a dozen photographs of Steve Jobs that show their "CEO of the Decade" in a more unusual light.
The above photo is #4 in the series, and my favorite by far. Anyone who doubts Jobs' proclaimed love of music -- a love that helped Apple build the iPod/iTunes ecosystem -- need only look to this photo as proof they're wrong.
Visit the link above to see all 12 photos.
Annette cuts my hair and I always accept her advice. As I've told her, "I follow the counsel of three advisors - my spiritual advisor, my financial advisor and you, my hair advisor." Ergo, on her suggestion, I had her give me a #1 this morning (formerly a #2). If its not cool in one sense of the word it may be in another. What do you think?
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How great is this? Six thousand Australians (from a reported 190,000 applicants) were chosen to enjoy Sunday morning breakfast on the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
This was not a trivial thing. Aside from shutting the bridge down, you can see they laid grass across the entire span upon which to sit and enjoy the meal. What a cool thing for a major city to do! More pictures at the above link.
It's a natural emotion--complaining. Wait a minute. Is complaining an emotion? It should be. Therefore, it is.
Anyway, when I drive, I don't do anything distracting. I have a hands-free communication system, which means I can talk on the phone using voice commands. I cannot blog in the car behind the wheel yet, but that's just around the corner. One day, I expect to be able to drive around town, blogging by using voice commands. I expect to be able to say, "blog post. An American Lion. Create a new post. Wait, go get me a news story. Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. Okay, use that one. Already, we see the end of the Obama Administration is nigh. Spell check. Ignore the fact that Obama always looks misspelled. Is misspelled misspelled? Spell check. Okay, blah, blah, blah, take five paragraphs, have Peej come up with something clever, put the annoying tags in there, use the my brilliant mind category, publish, and what's for lunch?"
I don't text. Texting is how poor people complain about things. What a negative emotion. Here's a story, blah, blah, blah:
In her fluorescent yellow jacket and white gloves, Mary Parker is a suburban icon: a school crossing guard. Rain or shine, she's all smiles, and she calls everyone, from the tiniest kindergartner to the cool middle-school kids, "Hon." Like crossing guards everywhere, her mere presence – plus the flick of a wrist – in the middle of an intersection in this Boston suburb can bring traffic to a screeching halt.
But that power is being challenged these days. Ms. Parker and her colleagues who work for the local police department are increasingly vying with cellphones for drivers' attention, and they are no longer 100 percent sure their gestures guarantee protection for school kids.
Parker recounts a "very scary" close call last spring as she was signaling traffic to stop while a group of children was crossing the street. The driver, who was on her cellphone, rolled right through the stop sign, oblivious to Parker's increasingly panicked signals from the middle of the intersection. Parker says the driver seemed to be looking directly at her but without eye contact.
"She said she didn't see me," Parker says with near-fresh astonishment, echoing an excuse many cellphone-using drivers give after accidents caused by what researchers call "inattention blindness."
There's no such thing as "inattention blindness." The driver was not looking where she should have been looking, and so she was distracted. If you're poor and have no influence, you text because you're trying to gain influence. No one successful does anything they don't have to do while driving, and most successful people don't drive themselves anywhere. Desperate people who want to text all of their homeys to say that "No I dindt got that pkg was i sposed to dam how cm evrby up in my bizness?????????" are going to waste their time texting no matter what.
Should texting while driving be banned? Absolutely. Good luck legislating away stupidity. If you have to have a law banning something that common sense tells you that you shouldn't do, then no amount of passing crazy laws is going to help.
Technology being what it is, here's how you stop texting while driving. By putting a simple motion detector in the phone, and by triangulating the signal in the phone, the device can detect whether it is being used in a moving vehicle. Simply disable the texting option, leaving the device capable of being used only for communicating through a hands-free device. If you're riding shotgun, too bad. Your texting could still distract the driver.
Did you know you can create a simple backlink to your own blog and earn cool points?
I just found out Betty Crocker isn't/wasn't a real person.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
What Would Google Do?
Do people think anymore? My apartment's fire alarm is a lady saying "there is a fire in the building, evacuate," and then a very low pitched "beep, beep, beep." When the alarm went off at 3:45AM, my roommates and I would have been dead if there was really a fire.
You may have heard the song "Fireflies" by Owl City. I love the song because it is so uniquely romantic in that it doesn't actually mention human-to-human love, but the romance is burning with every sound.
Insult: A clerk asked to see my ID when I bought an "M" (17+) rated video game. I'm twenty.
I found an alternative to caffiene. It works as well, but instead of being addictive in the long run, it's addictive in the short run. It is Resident Evil 4; the video game I was IDed for buying.
One of the hardest things for me to do is ask people to do something for free.
I'm definitely buying this for my sisters and I to play over Thanksgiving break.
By the way, no one back then voted for Agatha Christie, who is now probably the most frequently read of the British writers from that era.
Interesting results of a poll 80 years ago regarding what authors people thought would still be read in 2029. With 20 years to go, it appears our powers of prognostication are as accurate (i.e., not very) as ever.
Truth is, one never knows what will survive, and it's usually not anything recognized as such in its time. Kind of makes you leery of those alleged "classic rock" stations, doesn't it?
The only thing I know for sure about a work becoming a "classic" is that it must first survive the generation that spawned it. If younger people don't pick it up, it's not going anywhere no matter how many old farts continue to proclaim its greatness.
