This Generation's Edison
Hello, hello--hello!
Well, I'm sure you've all heard about the passing of Apple's very innovative CEO. Yes, Steve Jobs went on to that great Internet cafe in the sky this past week, after a long battle with cancer. Just about everyone in this world has at least one Apple or Mac or "I" product. My dad has one of their first computers, the Apple MacIntosh. Yeah, the one where they parodied "1984" in their 1984 commercial. It was the one he used when he was in college in Berkeley. I think he still has it. It's in the garage. Somewhere. We use the Mac Book now. More convenient. You can take that baby anywhere.
True, Jobs created many products that changed the world, but a lot of people are asking, is he the Thomas Edison of the latter part of the 20th Century? Well, maybe. He certainly changed the way many people live nowadays, just as Edison did a century ago, with his lightbulb and his phonograph, and, just as Edison's phonograph did, the IPod and ITunes changed the way we listened to music. For example, once, we had to buy an entire album to listen to a hit song, and had to put up with a lot of turkey corn on that album. What is turkey corn? Well, back on the farm, the harvested corn that was deemed unfit for human consumption was fed to the poultry, hence the term, "turkey corn." In the music industry, music executives would pad songs that they knew would never even crack the Top 100 on an album that had just two or three hit songs on it, and these less than stellar sons were called "turkey corn." That's how they cleared their studios of leftover and unwanted songs. Well, with the IPad and Later ITunes, people got to pick and choose what songs they wanted to listen to and add to their private collections, so if they didn't want turkey corn in their collections, they didn't have to have it. Now, wasn't that innovative? Thanks to Steve Jobs, we no longer have to have turkey corn amongst the golden nuggets. So, thank you, Steve, for changing the way we listen to, and buy, music, forever.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and remember to help the disaster survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
Well, I'm sure you've all heard about the passing of Apple's very innovative CEO. Yes, Steve Jobs went on to that great Internet cafe in the sky this past week, after a long battle with cancer. Just about everyone in this world has at least one Apple or Mac or "I" product. My dad has one of their first computers, the Apple MacIntosh. Yeah, the one where they parodied "1984" in their 1984 commercial. It was the one he used when he was in college in Berkeley. I think he still has it. It's in the garage. Somewhere. We use the Mac Book now. More convenient. You can take that baby anywhere.
True, Jobs created many products that changed the world, but a lot of people are asking, is he the Thomas Edison of the latter part of the 20th Century? Well, maybe. He certainly changed the way many people live nowadays, just as Edison did a century ago, with his lightbulb and his phonograph, and, just as Edison's phonograph did, the IPod and ITunes changed the way we listened to music. For example, once, we had to buy an entire album to listen to a hit song, and had to put up with a lot of turkey corn on that album. What is turkey corn? Well, back on the farm, the harvested corn that was deemed unfit for human consumption was fed to the poultry, hence the term, "turkey corn." In the music industry, music executives would pad songs that they knew would never even crack the Top 100 on an album that had just two or three hit songs on it, and these less than stellar sons were called "turkey corn." That's how they cleared their studios of leftover and unwanted songs. Well, with the IPad and Later ITunes, people got to pick and choose what songs they wanted to listen to and add to their private collections, so if they didn't want turkey corn in their collections, they didn't have to have it. Now, wasn't that innovative? Thanks to Steve Jobs, we no longer have to have turkey corn amongst the golden nuggets. So, thank you, Steve, for changing the way we listen to, and buy, music, forever.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and remember to help the disaster survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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