Poll: What Should Steve Jobs name his Autobiography?
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Well, we’ve gone through all your brilliant submissions for our What Should Steve Jobs name his Autobiography contest, and we’ve narrowed it down to what we feel are the 10 best choices. Now, normally our egos would demand that we pick the winning entry, but for once we’re actually going to pretend we care about what YOU think, and let YOU decide the winning name! So pick your favorite from the list below, and please be sure to make your choice carefully, as Steve Jobs is legally bound to go with the winning entry. (Poll closes Mach 21st).
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With news that the notoriously private Steve Steve jobs has hired former managing editor of Time magazine Walter Isaacson to write his official autobiography, one can only wonder what Steve’s masterpiece will be titled. Will it be something cutesy, with an “i” in the front, like “iLife”, or “iAm So Rich”? Or something more obvious like “Why I’m so Awesome” or “I Will Eat Google’s Lunch”?
(Whatever it’s called, odds are the book will physically LOOK better than other CEO autobiographies and cost roughly 50% more.)
While one can never guess what Steve will do next, we’ve decided to let YOU try to help him out by coming up with the ultimate title for his book. Leave us a comment with your best ideas, funny or serious. We’ll pick our top 5 or 10 entries and put it them up for a reader poll. Enter as often as you’d like. 
Winner will receive a $50 iTunes gift certificate. The contest is open to everyone in the US (sorry, iTunes won’t let us buy gift certificates to non-US accounts), and runs until Friday (March 5th) at 11:59PM EST.
[UPDATED] Chuck Norris Steve Jobs is so bad ass “he can get a Whopper at McDonald’s”
Filed under: Apple Bashing, Slow News Day, Steve Jobs
What do Steve Jobs and Chuck Norris have in common? They’re both ass-wipes. Well, at least the deified, internet version of Chuck Norris is (I’m sure he’s a lamb in real life). But according to NYMag, Steve Jobs is a different matter.
At a recent top-secret dinner held for 50 NY TImes execs, Steve Jobs made a “surprise” appearance to show off the capabilities of the new iPad and to perhaps attempt to gain exclusivity with NYT content on the device. And while that in and of itself would be news to your average Mac blog, what I found interesting was that despite the event being held at the swanky Southern Asian Restaurant Pranna, Steve apparently strolled in and requested “a mango lassi and penne”.
There’s something about celebrities that have the balls to do that that really pisses me off, and apparently the readers of NYMag agree. Maybe its all those years I spent as a top chef in Boston, New Orleans, Tokyo, and Antarctica, but if you know you’re going somewhere where you may not like the food, why not try eating BEFORE you go? Or at least ask the chef to prepare something from within 500 miles of where their specialty originates? It would never occur to me to walk into a Taco Bell and order a large Pan Pizza, and odds are if they gave me one it would be horrible, but that’s pretty much what Steve did.
It reminds me of The Simpson’s episode where Yoko Ono is at a restaurant and says “I’d like a single plum floating in perfume served in a man’s hat.” And she GETS it.
The ego it takes to go into a restaurant and order not just off the menu, but WAY off is astoundingly rude. I’m pretty sure not all 50 NYT execs wanted to eat Southern Asian cuisine, but they choked it down, or hit McDonald’s on the way home. Why else would this story have even leaked out if either the other guests, or odds are, the chef himself weren’t offended?
It’s times like this I am glad I turned down that job as Apple’s Chief Technology Officer. I don’t think I could smile through a business lunch with Steve ordering “flounder pie with sesame dressing” at Le Cirque.
Actually, they might serve that at Le Cirque. But you get the idea.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Jill for the link.
[via NY Mag]
[UPDATE} Faithful Macenstein reader Lev writes:
Dude,
Did you bother to do any research before you insulted our "fearless leader"? A mango Lassi is a South Asian drink. Weren't they at a South Asian restaurant?
Check Wikipedia if you care to be corrected; Lassi is a popular and traditional South Asian yogurt-based drink. It is made by blending yoghurt with water or milk and Indian spices.[1] Traditional lassi is sometimes flavored with ground roasted cumin. Sweet lassi, blended with sugar or fruits instead of spices, is also very popular.[
Can you say RETRACTION!
Lev, I think it’s pretty obvious I don’t do any research for ANY of my articles. In fact, I’m not even going to bother checking the link you sent me, I’ll just assume it’s accurate. But I’m big enough to admit when I was wrong, or at least blame someone else for my mistakes. The tone of the original NYMag article implied it was a bit of a social faux pas on Steve’s part to order such a thing, so I went with that, being totally unfamiliar with the type of food mentioned. I do not pretend to be a journalist of any integrity. Sorry if I somehow came across as professional.
Long live Steve!
- The Doc
They’re not exactly high-fiving, are they?
Someone managed to snap some video of Steve Jobs leaving the Yerba Buena Center after his iPad unveiling.
I’m sure its just me reading too much into this shot, but doesn’t the mood there amongst his posse seem just slightly less enthusiastic than that of a child’s funeral?
For the record, I am slowly warming to the idea of the iPad, and do not view it as the colossal let down many/most of you seem to. For years now I’ve complained about the idea of an Apple tablet, calling it the one imaginary Apple product I was LEAST looking forward to. And in fact, if Apple had unveiled a full-fledged touchscreen MacBook tablet, I would not have bought one. However, there seems to be just enough different about the iPad from both the MacBook and the iPod touch to at least make me consider buying one, which is something I was 110% sure I was NOT going to do before the keynote. So Steve and his pals there should buck up. They MAY have mad a sale after all.
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