RIP Steve

Steve Jobs was an innovator.

I can't polish that sentence up much more without appearing somewhat self-indulgent in simplistic praises for a really complex guy. Instead, my brain winds up expelling a series of facts about him that, on screen, look like ravings ala non-sequitur 'dick-and-jane' prose.
He was half Egyptian. He was raised by the Armenian family who adopted him. He demanded perfection. He could be a tyrant. He sometimes came off as condescending. He helped found the company that brought the first commercially viable personal computer to the market. The iPod. The iPad. The iPhone.

Dust off a DVD of 'Triumph of the Nerds" (that's the Robert Cringely PBS documentary about the rise of the Personal Computer--not the ridiculous 1980's comedy franchise Revenge of the Nerds, which was about formulaic moviemaking) and remember the real Steve.