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Steve Jobs At Home in 1982

45 points by mqt 19y ago

gscott 19y ago
That's a nice lamp.
- deleted 19y ago
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- nikolaj 19y ago
  yeah, funny that was my first thought too
mynameishere 19y ago
I wish I was rich enough to throw away all my possessions.
- edw519 19y ago
  Everyone is.
  - mynameishere 19y ago
    I don't think so. Example: Most of the things I have are replacements for what would otherwise be services. My oven and refrigerator and car and local grocery store combine to replace a maid, or 3-times-daily restaurant visits...both very expensive.
    - testapplication 19y ago
      You own the local grocery store?
      - mynameishere 19y ago
        Well, it was one of those situations where I thought, "Hmm, should I put a footnote [1] in this to make myself perfectly clear? Then I thought, why skew my parallel grammatical structure, howsoever already imperfect?" [1] I don't actually own the grocery store. The word "my" changed from "that which I possess" to "that thing whose utility I am habituated".
uuilly 19y ago
That mat really tied the room together.
- ereldon 19y ago
  The Dude: I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes
  - michaelneale 19y ago
    Brilliant.
jkkramer 19y ago
"All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo ..." and a multi-million dollar home in Southern California to put them in.
- alaskamiller 19y ago
  Northern California. It was about 1.25 million back then.
  - dcurtis 19y ago
    Is this that historically-protected house that Steve was trying to give away a few years ago? He described it as "one of the biggest abominations of a house I've ever seen."
    - pietro 19y ago
      I guess not. He bought the Jackling house in 1984.
spolsky 19y ago
Boy, I remember seeing that picture when it came out in 1982... it really influenced me. The article that accompanied it was about how Apple computer had grown so fast that the founders didn't even have time to spend their money and buy furniture. Steve Job's reformulation of this story, as if he were some kind of zen minimalist monk in the old days, sure sounds better than what he said at the time, which was way more prosaic -- something like "I just bought a big house so I would have some place to live and Apple has kept me so busy I haven't had time to buy furniture."
staunch 19y ago
"The Facebook CEO, according to reports as recent as last month, still lives in a rented apartment, with a mattress on the floor." http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ed6d5e3b-866a-41a4-b225-2f22cab3e20b http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ed6d5...
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- ivankirigin 19y ago
  what a clown
icky 19y ago
He should get a computer. Maybe a nice IBM PC that runs DOS... ;-)
tlrobinson 19y ago
This reminds me of the scene in Garden State where the rich friend who invented silent velcro has a huge mansion with nothing in it.

45 points by mqt 19y ago

gscott 19y ago

That's a nice lamp.

deleted 19y ago
[deleted]
nikolaj 19y ago
yeah, funny that was my first thought too

mynameishere 19y ago

I wish I was rich enough to throw away all my possessions.

edw519 19y ago
Everyone is.
- mynameishere 19y ago
  I don't think so. Example: Most of the things I have are replacements for what would otherwise be services. My oven and refrigerator and car and local grocery store combine to replace a maid, or 3-times-daily restaurant visits...both very expensive.
  - testapplication 19y ago
    You own the local grocery store?
    - mynameishere 19y ago
      Well, it was one of those situations where I thought, "Hmm, should I put a footnote [1] in this to make myself perfectly clear? Then I thought, why skew my parallel grammatical structure, howsoever already imperfect?" [1] I don't actually own the grocery store. The word "my" changed from "that which I possess" to "that thing whose utility I am habituated".

uuilly 19y ago

That mat really tied the room together.

ereldon 19y ago
The Dude: I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes
- michaelneale 19y ago
  Brilliant.

jkkramer 19y ago

"All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo ..." and a multi-million dollar home in Southern California to put them in.

alaskamiller 19y ago
Northern California. It was about 1.25 million back then.
- dcurtis 19y ago
  Is this that historically-protected house that Steve was trying to give away a few years ago? He described it as "one of the biggest abominations of a house I've ever seen."
  - pietro 19y ago
    I guess not. He bought the Jackling house in 1984.

spolsky 19y ago

Boy, I remember seeing that picture when it came out in 1982... it really influenced me. The article that accompanied it was about how Apple computer had grown so fast that the founders didn't even have time to spend their money and buy furniture. Steve Job's reformulation of this story, as if he were some kind of zen minimalist monk in the old days, sure sounds better than what he said at the time, which was way more prosaic -- something like "I just bought a big house so I would have some place to live and Apple has kept me so busy I haven't had time to buy furniture."

staunch 19y ago

"The Facebook CEO, according to reports as recent as last month, still lives in a rented apartment, with a mattress on the floor." http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ed6d5e3b-866a-41a4-b225-2f22cab3e20b http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ed6d5...

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ivankirigin 19y ago
what a clown

icky 19y ago

He should get a computer. Maybe a nice IBM PC that runs DOS... ;-)

tlrobinson 19y ago

This reminds me of the scene in Garden State where the rich friend who invented silent velcro has a huge mansion with nothing in it.