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Inventor of the Modern Pinball Machine Dies At 100
porsche911 writes with this excerpt from the New York Times: "Steve Kordek, who revolutionized the game of pinball in the 1940s by designing what became the standard two-flipper machine found in bars and penny arcades around the world, died on Sunday at a hospice in Park Ridge, Ill. He was 100. ... 'Steve's impact would be comparable to D. W. Griffith moving from silent films through talkies and color and CinemaScope and 3-D with computer-generated graphics,' [pinball historian Roger] Sharpe said. 'He moved through each era seamlessly.'"
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Bummer, it sucks to call first post and then not get first post. And the actual first poster made a decent joke, too.
Shouldn't he get a free game at 100?
Average male lifespan is about 78 years. Steve Kordek died at 100, Steve Jobs at 56. Who was smarter? By that standard, lifespan, Kordek was a genius. Smarter than Einstein?
When Jobs died I mused that he was a failure. A moron. Dying at 56 puts him, in my opinion, in a verly low intelligence bracket, given the circumstances of his life - born healthy, excellent environment, etc...
Based on your reasoning skills, I predict you will die fairly young.
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