I just saw boingboing. And started to cry.

Same here.

Sad some dude died from a vicious cancer. It's a sunsabitch. I'm a devoted apple-fan (no koolaid, just familiar to back in the day which make MS logic foreign.) It's a loss. But I miss my aunt more.

Sad about Jobs. My big fear is Apple won't be the same.

ION, anybody watching American Horror Story? So far it's annoying me.

ita, so sorry.

Perkins is the awesome. For serious, like woah!

It's a loss. But I miss my aunt more.

Yeah. It triggered another wave of sadness for my sister.

My big fear is Apple won't be the same.

No prob! They did so well the last time he left.

It needed you, msbelle! I couldn't stand in its way.

The boing boing page is very poignant.

Just skyped with my mother. She looks frail, but I don't know how much of that I'm making up. She seemed in good spirits, though. Only talked about my car crash.

7 out of 10 employers reject job candidates based on social media.

From Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.