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Finished reading Steve Jobs in Exile — The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary by Geoffrey Cain.
Finishing the acknowledgements at the end and reading the penultimate paragraph of the book.
I just happen to be finishing reading while at our friends’s cabin on the shores of Swan Lake very near Lake Vermillion where most of the book was written. A wonderful place to be a writer.
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Reading Steve Jobs in Exile — The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary by Geoffrey Cain.
Just started chapter 25, which begins in August 1996. Apple CEO Gil Amelio is struggling with what to do with Copland, their latest OS in development.
Found a bit of an anachronism:
“But without a modern OS, Apple users were left stuck in the dark ages, facing the spinning beach ball of death every time an application froze.“
A work week was six 12-hour days. You brought your lunch with you and ate in near darkness.
The mine elevators hoisted not only men but the mined iron ore to the top. Two cages stacked on top carried the men. A skip below carried the ore.
5/5
We stood in a huge cavernous area that had been slowly drilled, dynamited, and cleared of iron ore over many years.
The state park has done a good job creating small vignettes of mining activity as it would’ve appeared. The only difference is that we have the benefit of electric lights. Miners up until the mine closed in the 1960s only had candles to work by.
Standing in pitch black and silence was extremely disorienting.
3/5
After a several minute ride on a loud and rickety tram, we stopped outside a shaft.
An escape ladder leads up to higher levels in case of a mining accident. It was often used when detonating explosives. It was often climbed in pitch black darkness.
The mine shaft led to a 35-step spiral staircase to take us up to a higher level. It was definitely not for anyone who’s claustrophobic.
2/5
Toured the recently reopened Soudan Underground Mine, part of the Vermillion -Soudan Underground Mine State Park.
It’s been giving tours since 1965. Lots of grand machinery that’s still working as part of the tour.
Traveled nearly 1/2 mile below ground to the lowest level 27. Took about three minutes in a loud rickety cage. The mine had flooded after lightning struck machinery and closed the mine for a couple years.
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/tours/lake_vermilion_soudan.html
1/5
Reading Steve Jobs In Exile by Geoffrey Cain.
Oh, the interesting things you learn.
From page 65.
Since getting chosen to present my workshop “How to edit your terrible tech writing” at MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, I've written six pages of notes and ideas.
Just finished throwing them into sticky notes in Freeform on my computer to help me organize thoughts and topics.
Writing the presentation and putting together the Keynote slides has usually been time consuming but easy. But I’ll still probably agonize over the introduction.
