Shawn King of
The Mac Show Live talked a few days ago with Apple co-founder and knowledge-omnivore Steve (
The Woz) Wozniak. Shawn graciously agreed to post the interview, formerly Quicktime only (
downloadable or
streaming), as an
MP3 file -- so now most anyone can listen. This is an interview worth listening to: Woz talks about his lifelong motivations, his years with Apple (up to the present), OS X, the Newton, and what the future holds for him. He also talks about building TV jammers and the only prank he got caught for in high school, one which might not fly so well right now. (The interview starts about 55 minutes into the show, and lasts for nearly an hour.) What's this got to do with typing madly? Well, since Shawn's program is all-audio (no pictures, and only the barest explanitory text), it's a lot less useful to those on text-only or just-plain-slow links than it could be. Read on below for your chance to change that with just a few minutes of your time.
Update: 10/20 20:43 GMT by
T : Thanks to everyone who's volunteered to transcribe, and to the several alternates who are already in line! No need for more voluneers right now :)
Transcribing an hour of text takes a long time. But if you (yes, you!) are willing to transcribe a 3-minute (well. 3:15) chunk of this interview, I will spend my putative day off gluing chunks of interview together. Shoot me an email with "WozScript" in the subject if you'd like to participate, and I'll give the first volunteers (it shouldn't take that many) a randomly-drawn three-minute segment to type up, as well as more instructions on how to format it. No compensation except your name in lights, and the knowledge that lynx users everywhere appreciate your efforts. I'll update this story if and when the transcription is complete. (And if anyone can suggest a good Quicktime audio --> .ogg converter, Shawn and I would both appreciate it.)
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I'm much more impressed with Steve Wozniak, and his marketing assistant, Steve Jobs, working out of a garage, with spare parts and gleanings, coming up with a better little cruncher than the blue behemoth, then getting venture capital to put it into mass production (after being turned down by HP, TI, etc., when they offere to give the design to them). Of course, they owe a debt to XEROX for the Macintosh operating system, who, in turn, owe a debt to a quirky academic out east for the invention of the "mouse".
The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough to avoid being one. It is like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. $$$
"No compensation except your name in lights, and the knowledge that lynx users everywhere appreciate your efforts."
Well tell both of those two remaining lynx users to get with the program and install IE.
I sware to christ, if this is the best use of your time for a saturday afternoon nowonder Linux development is stagnating...
It's pretty easy as long as you're not using an app-poor environment like Linux or HURD.
Kindly ask them to join the rest of us in the 21st century. Failing that, euthanize them. In all seriousness, you know the world would be a much better place if that were to happen.