I know I am being a bit predictable here with my posting (although I may be up to my tricks with my titles. No, this post is not about recession and the falling job market).
Anytime there is an incident that has the whole world either overwhelmed with grief or ecstatically happy, I have to blog about it, especially if it is the former. Yes! you guessed right- this post is dedicated to the not unexpected but rather sudden demise of Steve Jobs.
Pretty inspiring to see what can be achieved by someone in a short span of ~ 30years, especially coming from circumstances that are ordinary and middle class. Well, we will wait for his biography and see what it says.
Anyhows, as expected, Facebook, Twitter are all buzzing with news of his death with epitaphs dedicated to him. There are personal quotes, borrowed quotes, Steve Job quotes all indicating what an important man he was and how greatly he will be missed.
Personally I don't have any catchy epitaph extolling Steve Jobs as I am not a "gadget-gizmo mortal" and my only association with Apple is my ipod (which is probably by now an antique in the Apple world) and those of the fruit/edible kind and hence I am not feeling an overwhelming sense of loss on his passing away. But yes, I would say, like any other person with common sense and a heart -the world has indeed lost a prolific innovator! R.I.P Steve Jobs and may many be inspired by you.
PS: Sounds like I just delivered my personal Steve Job epitaph
2 comments:
whole world either overwhelmed with grief or ecstatically happy ??? When did that happen ?
only the fat and the elite mourn the death of your friend. Rest of the world didn't know who this chapee was and what he did, as he is pretty useless for them. i am fine without my putter, its windows though. When my putter was possessed even the mandravadi thangal from Malabar couldn't help. i was fine.
What did you do ? Did you cry ? beating your chest ??
Aiyoo Ammaa, poitaan, yentha Accha poi' ??
He is not john Lennon.
'any other person with common sense and a heart'
i have no heart no common sense.
i did not care if Jobbie is alive or dead. Makes no difference to me.
You should be very angry with him bikkaas you got to know me bikkaas of him.
yes yes i am still alive, Travling like a maniac. Went to Trivandrum for literary Fest. Boring except for Fathima Bhutto. I don't know what she said but she gorgeous. i asked her questions. Den i wented, alleppy kollam, nothing new for me took a friend along. Den Kanyakumari, Punalur. where else ? forgot so soon. posted some pictures on the facebook. now i bees going Goa, 3rd time this year, my friend padmaja has rented a house there. Den i bees going Pushkar mela Rajasthan.
How are you e2dees ?
oh deeah this is my mail not a comment
Still the comment moderation is on. how silly !
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hi Rauf, great to hear from you.
No i did not put on a Rudali act for the "Jobbie". Don't have that sort of a connection to him like some other folks here.
I do make sweeping generalizations when I write in my blog- 'like the whole world crying or joyful' when I really mean only a proportion of them. Well, my bad but I take these liberties only with my silly blog.
I have seen interviews of the Bhutto lass and I agree she is pretty. She was perhaps the crowd puller of the show and probably had the largest audience. Sadly there goes the whole point of a "literary festival" where some genuinely good writer lost his or her limelight. (Or may be I am being too judgmental).
Lovely to hear about your travels. Pushkar and Goa is going to be lovely. I am so jealous.
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