Saturday, 9 December 2006

The many sides of Steve Wozniak

We all know this Woz quite well...



The prankster who still laughs at fart jokes and plays Segway Polo. The guy who admitted, in the email accompanying the above picture, which was taken backstage before his recent a earance on The Colbert Report by the friend of an acquaintance of mine: I suggested that one of us should do ra it ears and Colbert declined so I did it. That part may make it le fu y but it's true. I also left a sticker in the green room bathroom that is in OSHA style and colors with a picture of a butt with a poof coming out, and the words "Let's keep the air fresh." I hope it's still there.

But then there's the se itive and impre ively humble Woz. The Woz who re onds to an i ulting and juvenile question like this one, from Ask MetaFilter, with a disarming and brutally honest a wer like this: "...I don't mind if people don't like me as long as it's for things I am. There's plenty to find there. I do try to remain the person I would have wanted to become, from when I was 10 and when I was 20. Even after something like A le I managed to remain close to the same person, doing things I would have done had A le never come about, like getting my degree and teaching and much more." [read the entire thing for proper context, it's short]

Steve Wozniak is a cla act. 'Nuff said.

Thanks to phi for the Ask MeFi link.

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