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Steve Jobs

For all the vaunted mystique surrounding Steve Jobs, despite his apparent health issues over the years, there was always something everlasting, if that's the right word, about him as a leader. I was only 1 percent joking and 99 percent serious when I referred to him as Our Dear Leader. However this photo of him, frail,  resting his head against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, after delivering the keynote speech earlier this summer, is a reminder that even the great Steve Jobs is only human. This photo made me think of that old adage that behind every great man is a great woman.

Earlier this year a friend visited me and over a night cap she asked me, "Matt, what are you looking for? I can't tell. This is why we're not dating."

My short answer was "I'm not looking to date you." My long answer would have been that what I'm looking for is a partner with whom I trust will be there to give me support when I need to rest my head, even if I don't become a CEO someday. Even if I do become a great man, I want an even greater woman there with me.

Oh yeah, and she should be a super hottie. At least a 9.1.

On a side note: In an uncanny coincidental sense, which a few of my readers that have known me for years and know how far back my history with Apple products go will understand, after an absence of a couple years, I re-embraced Apple by ordering a new Macbook Air this afternoon. Few hours later the wires reported the news of Steve Jobs resignation.

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Weekend Update

I'm off to the South for the rest of this week. To my fellow New York City friends, acquaintances, neighbors, and bros: have a good rainy weekend.

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Forgive Me Father...

If pictures could speak...I'd love to hear what this woman is confessing to "a priest at one of the 200 temporary open-air confessionals set up at Madrid's Buen Retiro park." Brilliant photo.

Also, if I was a lip reader I'd totally hang out at this park all day long.

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When they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball, and jazz music. They're the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created.

- Prof. Gerald Early

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Cat Scan

The Cat Scan: Tumblr starring cats sitting on scanners. As the website's proprietor observed, "Cats are sitting-on-things enthusiasts."

Looks like bubble gum got stuck to the bottom of this cat's paws. It's moderately cute.

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Bill Walton the War Protester

Photo of Bill Walton protesting the Vietnam War published in the Los Angeles Times on May 10, 1972 with the caption "IN A DIFFERENT ROLE — Bill Walton, UCLA’s All-American basketball center, gesturing for fellow students to sit down in center of Wilshire Blvd."

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A Day in the Life of a Professional Sports Agent

Rick Reilly spends a full day with a busy real life Jerry Maguire. This is great:

9:44 a.m. Big crisis.

A prominent NFC player is freaking out. The NFL has dropped off a urine-testing kit at his house when he's clearly not -- how shall we say this? -- ready.

Apparently, the end of the lockout came as a surprise to him. Schaffer talks him off the ledge.

"Hold on, hold on (blank). They can't do that. They haven't finished the language on drug testing yet in the CBA. They can't test you if it's not in the contract. This is still America, right?"

Schaffer calls the players' union to check. A union lawyer gets on the line and Schaffer gets the player on the line.

"OK, listen carefully, (blank). We need you to have somebody videotape you putting the entire thing -- the test tubes, the instructions, everything -- into a clear, sealed bag. Then FedEx it to me immediately. Got it?"

"OK, OK," the player says.

Then, just as a precaution, Schaffer says, "Read me the directions, will you?"

The directions are all about allowable levels of chlorine and bromine.

Turns out it was from the guy's pool cleaner.

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News Humor

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