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xenophon10k

2012-02-09 01:35:26 PM

The man went to Reed College in the 70s. It would have been news if he hadn't used LSD.

Teknowaffle

2012-02-09 01:47:48 PM

So what drug caused the iMac mouse?

Eddie Adams from Torrance

2012-02-09 01:52:47 PM

That can't be right. I learned here on Fark that drug users are lazy unproductive drains on society.

Teknowaffle

2012-02-09 01:59:25 PM

Eddie Adams from Torrance: That can't be right. I learned here on Fark that drug users are lazy unproductive drains on society.

Outliers man.

Outliers

ecmoRandomNumbers

2012-02-09 01:59:45 PM

The iToilet -- the prettiest and most underpowered piece of crap I was forced to use as a teacher.

ricewater_stool

2012-02-09 02:00:15 PM

Teknowaffle: So what drug caused the iMac mouse?

Rubbing alcohol.

chakalakasp

2012-02-09 02:02:06 PM

If you haven't read it, Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs is an incredible read. The LSD thing is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the eccentricity of this guy's life. For example, he dated Joan Baez for three years. His biological sister (that he met for the first time in his 30s) turned out to be a famous novelist. His biological dad, who abandoned his mom years after they gave Jobs up for adoption, gave up teaching and went on to run restaurants. Eventually Job's sister decided to track him down with a private detective. She did and met him. During their meeting, he explained that he wished she could have seen some of the better restaurants he used to run. He bragged about one restaurant he ran in Silicon Valley -- he said that all the technology guys came there -- "Even Steve Jobs!". Apparently, one day, a man named Steve Jobs came in and had dinner there. His dad knew that Jobs was a techno big-wig, and came out and introduced himself. Neither Jobs nor his dad knew anything about each other; it was only years later that they both found out that that was the first and only time they would ever meet each other.

Great read.

illegal.tender

2012-02-09 03:18:52 PM

Wow.

Based on that file the FBI is *obsessed* with drugs and Communism.

What year was this done? 1956?

Jodeo

2012-02-09 03:21:53 PM

You mean this one right?

illicit

2012-02-09 03:23:18 PM

Teknowaffle: So what drug caused the iMac mouse?

No amount of drugs can equal the brain hemorrhage that resulted in that design being considered "good".

olddinosaur

2012-02-09 03:23:24 PM

What's with this "Reality Distortion Field" thing?

I can do that any time I want, just kill two six-packs of Heineken and slam down half a liter of good tequila.

que.guero

2012-02-09 03:23:32 PM

Is he still dead?

This text is now purple

2012-02-09 03:23:47 PM

illegal.tender: Wow.

Based on that file the FBI is *obsessed* with drugs and Communism.

What year was this done? 1956?

I'm reminded that college students today don't remember a world where the US and the USSR had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at each other and were actively trying to undermine each other's governments.

krackpipe

2012-02-09 03:24:48 PM

Good thing the FBI has never been known to inaccurately smear people for one reason or another.

gweilo8888

2012-02-09 03:25:08 PM

ecmoRandomNumbers: [i224.photobucket.com image 604x464]

The iToilet -- the prettiest and most underpowered piece of crap I was forced to use as a teacher.

If you find that pretty, and you're not a 14 year old girl, you have issues.

Saccharine cutesy? Yes.

Pretty? Oh HELL fark no. It's a visual abomination.

m2313

2012-02-09 03:28:07 PM

Eddie Adams from Torrance: That can't be right. I learned here on Fark that drug users are lazy unproductive drains on society.

To be fair, Steve Jobs didn't really earn all that wealth and was relatively lazy compared to the people that actually did the work and production that put him on the top. And he did drain the lives out of sweatshop workers.
Ignoring the whole celebrity worship everyone has of him, you could almost call the cancer karmic.

MightyPez

2012-02-09 03:28:51 PM

chakalakasp: If you haven't read it, Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs is an incredible read. The LSD thing is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the eccentricity of this guy's life. For example, he dated Joan Baez for three years. His biological sister (that he met for the first time in his 30s) turned out to be a famous novelist. His biological dad, who abandoned his mom years after they gave Jobs up for adoption, gave up teaching and went on to run restaurants. Eventually Job's sister decided to track him down with a private detective. She did and met him. During their meeting, he explained that he wished she could have seen some of the better restaurants he used to run. He bragged about one restaurant he ran in Silicon Valley -- he said that all the technology guys came there -- "Even Steve Jobs!". Apparently, one day, a man named Steve Jobs came in and had dinner there. His dad knew that Jobs was a techno big-wig, and came out and introduced himself. Neither Jobs nor his dad knew anything about each other; it was only years later that they both found out that that was the first and only time they would ever meet each other.

Great read.

Damn it, it's sitting in my pile waiting to be read. I may have to move it to the front of the queue.

Nicholas D. Wolfwood

2012-02-09 03:29:33 PM

I dunno about the Mac, but it sure explains the Lisa...

... and the NeXT Cube...

Warlordtrooper

2012-02-09 03:30:51 PM

Why does the FBI have a file on Steve jobs. Do they keep one on each and every American?

EdNortonsTwin

2012-02-09 03:32:33 PM

Steve-o's reality-distortion field.

1. Set the theme.
2. Demonstrate enthusiasm.
3. Provide an outline.
4. Make numbers meaningful
5. Try for an unforgettable moment.
6. Create visual slides
7. Give 'em a show
8. Don't sweat the small stuff
9. Sell the benefit
10. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse

In all fairness, he was a George H. Bush special appointee.

Harry Freakstorm

2012-02-09 03:34:09 PM

(writes on Newton)
"I probably dropped LSD"
(Newton remembers it as)
iPhone Develop

tgregory

2012-02-09 03:34:23 PM

He says in his own biography that he used LSD.

/old news

Fark It

2012-02-09 03:34:42 PM

Warlordtrooper: Why does the FBI have a file on Steve jobs. Do they keep one on each and every American?

It was required as part of a background check for a Presidential appointment, which would be readily apparent had you read the article.

illegal.tender

2012-02-09 03:35:30 PM

Nicholas D. Wolfwood: I dunno about the Mac, but it sure explains the Lisa...

... and the NeXT Cube...

The web was created on a NeXT cube.

Just sayin'.

EdNortonsTwin

2012-02-09 03:36:32 PM

Warlordtrooper: Why does the FBI have a file on Steve jobs. Do they keep one on each and every American?

Do you have a SS#?

There's your answer.

JohnnyCanuck

2012-02-09 03:37:03 PM

Warlordtrooper: Why does the FBI have a file on Steve jobs. Do they keep one on each and every American?

It also says you grabbed a dog by the hind legs, and pushed him around like a vacuum cleaner.

HotWingConspiracy

2012-02-09 03:37:07 PM

"Bro when I was trippin I invented rectangles"

Degenerate Monkey

2012-02-09 03:37:12 PM

All interesting advances in computer technology since the early 1960s can be accurately attributed, at least indirectly, to psychedelic drug use.

alizeran

2012-02-09 03:40:08 PM

No.

Braun can explain the iMac.

i41.tinypic.com

krackpipe

2012-02-09 03:41:39 PM

Warlordtrooper: Why does the FBI have a file on Steve jobs. Do they keep one on each and every American?

You know the computer surveillance, storage, and analysis power of several US agencies, correct? They're deporting tourists for twitter entries these days. What do you think?

macadamnut

2012-02-09 03:41:43 PM

This text is now purple: I'm reminded that college students today don't remember a world where the US and the USSR had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at each other and were actively trying to undermine each other's governments.

Amazing how easily the hippie organic farmers made the transition from Communist dupes to Taliban sympathizers, isn't it?

I used to love America so much before I smoked LSD and turned gay.

keylock71

2012-02-09 03:42:10 PM

Who hasn't?

Christ, there was a couple of years there where I did either LSD, Mescaline or Mushrooms at least twice a week.

I wouldn't touch the stuff these days, but boy, oh boy did I enjoy it when I was younger. If I smoke some strong weed these days, I get flashbacks sometimes... it's the gift that keeps on giving, I guess.

illegal.tender

2012-02-09 03:42:13 PM

Degenerate Monkey: All interesting advances in computer technology since the early 1960s can be accurately attributed, at least indirectly, to psychedelic drug use.

Most of the decent music, too.

Jake Havechek

2012-02-09 03:45:25 PM

Typical drug war crap.

The government tried time and time again to use LSD as a type of truth serum, but if you are busted with a certain amount of it, I think one sheet or over, the feds are notified and they start a file on you.

Supposedly from the hippie days backlash, LSD use is considered to be a subversive act.

m2313

2012-02-09 03:47:14 PM

macadamnut: Amazing how easily the hippie organic farmers made the transition from Communist dupes to Taliban sympathizers, isn't it?

I used to love America so much before I smoked LSD and turned gay.

lolwut

walkerhound

2012-02-09 03:48:01 PM

chakalakasp: CSB

Did it talk about the time chakalakasp gave Jobs a beej in the back of the tour bus?

macadamnut

2012-02-09 03:48:32 PM

Jake Havechek: but if you are busted with a certain amount of it, I think one sheet or over, the feds are notified and they start a file on you.

Jesus, I think if you were busted with a sheet you're still in prison right now.

HighlanderRPI

2012-02-09 03:48:58 PM

alizeran: No.

Braun can explain the iMac.

[i41.tinypic.com image 640x598]

Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?

Current Resident

2012-02-09 03:49:03 PM

hooneybayer

2012-02-09 03:50:31 PM

Something I saw up there: I'm reminded that college students today don't remember a world where the US and the USSR had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at each other and were actively trying to undermine each other's governments.

Um, I think you left out the part about Reinhard Gehlen playing both sides of that fence.

Degenerate Monkey

2012-02-09 03:51:19 PM

LSD (or psilocybin or mescaline, etc) serve one great purpose:

To free chained minds from the shackles of a predisposed narrative.

Not everyone needs that and not everyone wants that, but a lot of people who could benefit from it will never know.

WrestlerManager

2012-02-09 03:55:16 PM

This text is now purple: I'm reminded that college students today ~~don't remember a world where~~ are no longer brainwashed to believe the US and the USSR had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at each other and were actively trying to undermine each other's governments.

/FTFY

velvet_fog

2012-02-09 03:56:14 PM

FBI releases file on Steve Jobs which notes that he used LSD in his past. Well that at least explains ~~the iMac~~ MobileMe

Jake Havechek

2012-02-09 03:56:39 PM

macadamnut: Jake Havechek: but if you are busted with a certain amount of it, I think one sheet or over, the feds are notified and they start a file on you.

Jesus, I think if you were busted with a sheet you're still in prison right now.

Well yeah, regardless of local adjudication, the feds start a file on you. I thought that you'd be in a lot of trouble locally, was self evident.

new_york_monty

2012-02-09 03:56:56 PM

Jake Havechek: Typical drug war crap.

The government tried time and time again to use LSD as a type of truth serum, but if you are busted with a certain amount of it, I think one sheet or over, the feds are notified and they start a file on you.

Supposedly from the hippie days backlash, LSD use is considered to be a subversive act.

Read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and find out why... particularly re: The Merry Pranksters and their plan for the 1969 DNC (might have been the RNC--many years since last I read it). The Feds have long memories.

Splinshints

2012-02-09 03:58:19 PM

Degenerate Monkey: To free chained minds from the shackles of a predisposed narrative.

Ridiculous psuedo-intellectual crap like that sometimes makes me question my dedication to the end of the drug war....

No, there are no chained minds, there are no shackles and there's no wider meaning to be found through drug use. You just want to get blasted and run around acting stupid. Which is fine. I'm cool with that. I want people to stop pointing guns at you for that.

But let's please not kid ourselves. Humans mess up their minds for primal reasons. It feels good. That's it. There's not some deep artistic merit to it, we're just getting stupid because it releases the right chemicals, nothing more.

WrestlerManager

2012-02-09 03:58:48 PM

macadamnut: This text is now purple: I'm reminded that college students today don't remember a world where the US and the USSR had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at each other and were actively trying to undermine each other's governments.

Amazing how easily the hippie organic farmers made the transition from Communist dupes to Taliban sympathizers, isn't it?

Where would we be without a bogyman?

THX 1138

2012-02-09 03:59:33 PM

FBI releases file on Steve Jobs which notes that he used LSD in his past. Well that at least explains the ~~iMac~~ Newton

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This is fun.

J. Frank Parnell

2012-02-09 04:05:01 PM

Jake Havechek: The government tried time and time again to use LSD as a type of truth serum

Not just that. They also tried to use it to make supersoldiers, with hilarious results.

But i also disagree with what Tim Leary and others said, about it being a free ticket to enlightenment. For many all LSD did was give them a messiah complex, and managed to make them more arrogant than your average teenager naturally is. Something previously believed to be impossible. Steve was probably one of those.

Oh, and the obligatory image macro: i.crackedcdn.com