Three deaths
Oct. 6th, 2011 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. Steve Jobs. By the time I found out about his death (via Twitter; I'd just force-quit Memory Hog 5000 Firefox, and was looking at Tweetdeck while waiting for it to reload, and saw a stream of comments), everything that could be said had been said. I like what ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pnh said over at Making Light. It's hard to deny, as I'm typing on my Macbook, working on my iPad, and listening to my iPod Touch, the impact that Jobs has had on me. I got my senior year job in college at the Emory Computer Store because they needed a student worker who was a PC guy. By the time I graduated that December and started working there, I was a Mac convert (and this was in '94, dark days, comparatively), and even before then, I was one of the folks regularly using the NeXT cubes in the computer lab. His decisions have been a part of my life for nearly twenty years (probably more, considering the time I spent at a high-school friend's house playing Brickles and Fool's Errand), and will continue to do so for years to come.
2. Charles Napier. Blues Brothers is one of my all-time favorite movies (even if, like Highlander, it's one that sadly lacks a sequel). So of courses I remember Napier fondly. He was also wonderful on a recent Archer episode, playing Archer's breast cancer doctor, and had been doing some awesome voice work for years (General Hardcastle on Superman/Justice League, Agent Zed on Men in Black, and Jay's boss Duke Phillips on The Critic, one of the funniest animated roles I can recall.
3. Fred Shuttlesworth. I'd love to say I knew who he was before college. Hell, I'd love to say I learned who he was in college, but that's a half-truth. I learned who he was while at college, but not in any course (that's not a condemnation of college, btw; part of the college experience at its best includes having intellectual discussions outside of the classroom, and learning stuff there, too). Going to school in Atlanta meant getting a lot of exposure to the civil rights movement (much more than the "Parks, King, Malcolm X" segment I got in my mostly-white NYC high school, which, like so many history classes, tried to compress Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, and Watergate into that last week of a semester-long look at 150 years), but as with any major series of events, some names got more attention than others (King, Abernathy -- who passed away at Emory four months before I began college, Lewis, Carmichael, Moses, Parks, Malcolm X tended to be the ones I heard most often). I can't remember exactly when and where I became familiar with Shuttlesworth, but I'm guessing it would have been during sophomore or junior year. More recently, of course, there have been any number of articles written about the Freedom Rides (the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast did a good two-parter on them, with a third episode devoted to the Australian Freedom Ride).
I'm very, very willing to consider yesterday fired.
pnh said over at Making Light. It's hard to deny, as I'm typing on my Macbook, working on my iPad, and listening to my iPod Touch, the impact that Jobs has had on me. I got my senior year job in college at the Emory Computer Store because they needed a student worker who was a PC guy. By the time I graduated that December and started working there, I was a Mac convert (and this was in '94, dark days, comparatively), and even before then, I was one of the folks regularly using the NeXT cubes in the computer lab. His decisions have been a part of my life for nearly twenty years (probably more, considering the time I spent at a high-school friend's house playing Brickles and Fool's Errand), and will continue to do so for years to come.2. Charles Napier. Blues Brothers is one of my all-time favorite movies (even if, like Highlander, it's one that sadly lacks a sequel). So of courses I remember Napier fondly. He was also wonderful on a recent Archer episode, playing Archer's breast cancer doctor, and had been doing some awesome voice work for years (General Hardcastle on Superman/Justice League, Agent Zed on Men in Black, and Jay's boss Duke Phillips on The Critic, one of the funniest animated roles I can recall.
3. Fred Shuttlesworth. I'd love to say I knew who he was before college. Hell, I'd love to say I learned who he was in college, but that's a half-truth. I learned who he was while at college, but not in any course (that's not a condemnation of college, btw; part of the college experience at its best includes having intellectual discussions outside of the classroom, and learning stuff there, too). Going to school in Atlanta meant getting a lot of exposure to the civil rights movement (much more than the "Parks, King, Malcolm X" segment I got in my mostly-white NYC high school, which, like so many history classes, tried to compress Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, and Watergate into that last week of a semester-long look at 150 years), but as with any major series of events, some names got more attention than others (King, Abernathy -- who passed away at Emory four months before I began college, Lewis, Carmichael, Moses, Parks, Malcolm X tended to be the ones I heard most often). I can't remember exactly when and where I became familiar with Shuttlesworth, but I'm guessing it would have been during sophomore or junior year. More recently, of course, there have been any number of articles written about the Freedom Rides (the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast did a good two-parter on them, with a third episode devoted to the Australian Freedom Ride).
I'm very, very willing to consider yesterday fired.
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Date: 2011-10-06 12:43 pm (UTC)Definitely fired.
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Date: 2011-10-06 11:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-07 06:54 pm (UTC)