Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
Steve Jobs: Dumber than Scoble
Apparently the fact that Steve Jobs is an ego centric jackass is somehow news. It’s been highlighted lately by his rejection of a fan’s request for a photo while Jobs was out on the MacWorld floor:
Thinking a girl — in this case, a fangirl, me — will never get anything if she doesn’t ask for it, I lightly touched his arm and said “hi”. He looked at me, and I blushingly asked if it would be okay for me to ask if I could take a picture with him… He told me curtly, flatly that I was rude. And turned his back to me.
Every nerd boy on the internet is running around shrieking ZOMG, Steve Jobs is rude! (like that’s news) and totally missing the real story. The real story here is not the Steve Jobs is rude, it’s that Steve Jobs is gay.
Because the woman he turned down? Is Violet Blue. Not only is she the web’s leading “open source sex” blogger, vlogger, and podcaster; best selling author of titles like The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus and The Smart Girl’s Guide to Sex; sex columnist for the SF Chronicle and a UC Berkeley lecturer…
…but seriously, have you seen this woman? If she asked for a piece of chewing gum from my mouth, I would give it to her. And weep with gratitude.
Steve Jobs doesn’t know what he’s missing. Because Violet, she likes the geek boys. A lot.
19 Jan 2008
| In: Marketing |
Ok agreed that he’s a c*ck but seriously she’s not that hot. lol
19.01.2008, 6:37 pmFake Steve responds
19.01.2008, 7:38 pmShe assaulted him. She should have been turfed out.
19.01.2008, 10:21 pmWhile I understand that this meets the standard for battery, and I’m not arguing that, I will say that when you live in a world where a single touch of a public figure in a public space constitutes a legal transgression, that’s severely fucked up.
Jessi, we can agree to disagree on that one, but in this house, we’re agreed that we’ll happily make room for Violet Blue for as long as she cares to drop by :)
20.01.2008, 1:25 pmI have a copy of Icon for your reading pleasure and you’re welcome to keep it if you’ve never read it before. The book explains the ego that is SJ.
21.01.2008, 1:56 amI NEED her glasses. I NEED them in SL too. And she’s a friend to Tristan Taormino! I think I shall have a crush. :-)
16.02.2008, 4:47 am