11.28
Rest assured, hard-core computer fans, we’re not going to suggest that you abandon your dual-core screamer and take up knitting. This is an online tech journal, after all.
Were we meant to sit at a computer for hours on end with slouching backs and blood-shot eyes? No, probably not. Maybe sometime in the future humans will have adapted to such a lifestyle — and that is an ugly thought — but until then, it’s either take care of yourself or suffer the consequences. Information Week, way back in 2006, offered up ten ways they thought the keyboard jockey lifestyle could hurt you and added, at least, a corresponding number of ways to keep the hurt from happening. This is timeless advice.
7.30
Chances are Jobs will be fine, and will remain as cantankerous, arrogant, dictatorial, and wildly visionary as ever for many years to come
– Orac
From the blog post entitled “What’s wrong with Steve Jobs?”. Orac is “the nom de blog of a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist …”.
7.26
You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong
– Steve Jobs
I’ve been consciously attempting to curtail my gratuitous and overabundant siphoning of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball content but this one was too good to pass up.
This little gem of a quote was the opening line (I dare not call it a “greeting”) of a phone call from Steve Jobs to a New York Times reporter in response to said reporters coverage of the nagging question of Mr. Job’s health.
That Steve Jobs, he really does have a bit of a potty mouth, no?
6.17
Despite the fact that there have to be many talented people toiling away behind the doors of 1, Infinite Loop, there is no denying the importance — both symbolic and real — of the man in the mock turtleneck when, a week after Steve Jobs appeared on stage looking, by all accounts, dangerously thin, there is still a profound interest in discovering exactly what, if anything, is going on with his health. indeed, even after a statement by Apple’s PR department that the culprit was just a “common bug”, the investigation continues in ernest. To wit, Fortune’s “Apple 2.0″ blog has a post on the results of an investigation into the possibility that Mr. Job’s gaunt appearance is a not unexpected result of the type of surgery he underwent to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas a short time ago.
Known as The Whipple Procedure, apparently it significantly rewires your digestive system, can make it difficult to manage your weight and can even cause aversion to certain foods.
Maybe what Mr. Jobs needs is an old Italian grandma. “Steven, you’re so skinny! Eat, eat!”. That’ll take care of it.
6.10
“Steve Jobs’s Appearance Grabs Notice, Not Just the IPhone” (@ WSJ via DF)
I was wondering how long it was going to take until someone mentioned this.
4.28
Is the modern practice of wearing shoes, what with their cupped heels, aggressive arch support, pronation inhibiting outsoles et. al., damaging our feet? Adam Sternbergh, writing for New York magazine investigates a nascent movement dedicated to healing (no pun intended … really) the damage done to our peds by the modern world of footwear.
8.7