Best of Beth Bales: RIP Steve Jobs—You Changed My World
Put Steve Jobs in the same category as Walt Disney. They were magic-makers of the first order.
When the world found out in February 1999 that Walter Payton needed a liver transplant, I was not particularly moved. It just didn’t pertain much to my life. Then, a few weeks later, film critic Gene Siskel died. “I am so very, very sad,” I told my husband when he delivered the news. “That’s the way other people feel about Walter Payton,” he said, mildly, but with import that has stuck all these years. That sadness I felt when Siskel died doesn’t BEGIN to cover how I felt when my middle daughter, the child who loves all things Apple, who convinced me that giving her dad an iPad for Christmas would be a fabulous, if extravagant gift, who couldn’t wait to order the MacBook she received for her high school graduation, called Wednesday …
forest barbieri
3:34 pm on Friday, December 2, 2011
Thanks Tony! Well said! As Sir Winston once said to Lady Astor when she admonished him for being drunk, "Lady Astor, I may be drunk tonight, but tomorrow I will be sober and you will still be ugly." Some people just do not get it. more ›