{"id":850,"date":"2007-05-24T05:53:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/24\/from-a-guy-who-knows-20-foot-holes\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T05:53:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:53:27","slug":"from-a-guy-who-knows-20-foot-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"From A Guy Who Knows 20-Foot Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Pauline Kael files:\u00a0 Alphageek Steve Jobs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcadvisor.co.uk\/news\/index.cfm?newsid=9447\">demonstrates<\/a> that his command of politics is equal to his savvy about marketing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stated that Al Gore, an Apple board member and former US vice-president, would win the presidency if he ran for election.&#8221;If he ran, there&#8217;s no question in my mind that he would be elected,&#8221; Jobs told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1622009-1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Time<\/em> magazine<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem? Algore is just <em>too damn sensitive<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But I think there&#8217;s a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, for one, feel it; the fact that Algore is still in the news and still has his minions argling and bargling about the 2000 election is, indeed, painful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have dug ourselves into a 20-foot hole, and we need somebody who knows how to build a ladder. Al&#8217;s the guy,&#8221; Jobs also told <em>Newsweek<\/em>. &#8220;Like many others, I have tried my best to convince him. So far, no luck.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking as the guy whose mercurial nature and neofundie commitment to his own knee-jerk feelings destroyed NeXT (my favorite computers ever) and nearly took Apple down the toilet, Jobs would be the expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Pauline Kael files:\u00a0 Alphageek Steve Jobs demonstrates that his command of politics is equal to his savvy about marketing: Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stated that Al Gore, an Apple board member and former US vice-president, would win the presidency if he ran for election.&#8221;If he ran, there&#8217;s no question in my mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}