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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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Unintentional Art

tumblr_lqetu6i1By1qcokc4o7_1280 Among the photos that The Atlantic posted of damages to The National Cathedral in DC during yesterday's earthquake, I found this particular photo of a crack in the wall poetic. It almost looks like a contemporary installation.

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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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Facebook Faces

Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay Triangulation Blog 2

Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay's project "fbFaces" wallpapered a room with profile pictures from Facebook that was created with a "Facebook crawler, built using JavaScript & PHP, that starts at the public profile of any fb-user, saving profile image, facebook-ID and name, and afterwards continuing its way to the public profiles of the user's friends. And so on..." The effect is vertigo inducing to me both conceptually and physically.

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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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Age ain't nothing but a number... It's also a pretty accurate barometer of how old you are.

- David O'Doherty

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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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