{"id":6268,"date":"2011-10-07T00:59:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:59:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T04:59:45","slug":"mlag-issue-8-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/mlag-issue-8-steve-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"MLAG: Issue #8: Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a title=\"My Life as a Geek\" rel=\"home\" href=\"http:\/\/mylifeasag33k.wordpress.com\/\"><\/a>Issue #8: Steve\u00a0Jobs<\/h2>\n<div id=\"content-container\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"content-body\">\n<div id=\"post-252\">\n<div>By Ryan MacDonald<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At first you probably didn\u2019t realize it, but if you sit and  think about it Steve Jobs has had a hand in more facets of everyone\u2019s  life than most would care to admit. \u00a0And it\u2019s more than computers and  phones. \u00a0It\u2019s the way we live and go about our days with those devices.  \u00a0He made it all possible for us to take every single one of our favorite  things everywhere with us in our pockets. \u00a0And while it may just be a  sci-fi trope to joke about things being \u201cbigger on the inside\u201d with the  products that Jobs helped to create he made that trope real in a sense.  \u00a0Everything we love at the tap, swipe, and stretch of our fingers.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just personal technologies. \u00a0He had a hand in  revolutionizing animation, too. \u00a0If it wasn\u2019t for Steve Jobs we wouldn\u2019t  have Pixar, it\u2019d just be another company still fledgling under the  umbrella of Lucasfilm. \u00a0Don\u2019t get me wrong, THX became a standard of  audio quality in cinema, but I have this feeling that if Steve Jobs  didn\u2019t buy it back when he did they\u2019d be making digital chop suey out of  Star Wars films to this day with the remains of the company. \u00a0But,  alas, Jobs stepped in and created a brand new power house of animation  and had a hand in creating movies that swept more than just awards  shows.<\/p>\n<p>People die, Celebrities come and go, and it may not weigh heavily on  you, or maybe it does. \u00a0I know that, while it didn\u2019t affect a lot of  people, I was genuinely saddened by the passing of Pat Morita. \u00a0But  that\u2019s me. \u00a0Anyway, if you think the passing of Steve Jobs has no weight  in your life, you need to look around you and see everything that he  made possible for you to have in your life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources\/r\/?m=02&amp;d=20111006&amp;t=2&amp;i=511934638&amp;w=&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=700&amp;pl=390&amp;r=2011-10-06T140246Z_01_BTRE795130O00_RTROPTP_0_APPLE-JOBS\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">April 24, 1955 \u2013 October 5, 2011<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue #8: Steve\u00a0Jobs By Ryan MacDonald At first you probably didn\u2019t realize it, but if you sit and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}