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gscott
That's a nice lamp.
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nikolaj
yeah, funny that was my first thought too
mynameishere
I wish I was rich enough to throw away all my possessions.
edw519
Everyone is.
mynameishere
I don't think so. Example: Most of the things I have are replacements for what would otherwise be services. My oven and refrigerator and car and local grocery store combine to replace a maid, or 3-times-daily restaurant visits...both very expensive.
testapplication
You own the local grocery store?
mynameishere
Well, it was one of those situations where I thought, "Hmm, should I put a footnote [1] in this to make myself perfectly clear? Then I thought, why skew my parallel grammatical structure, howsoever already imperfect?"

[1] I don't actually own the grocery store. The word "my" changed from "that which I possess" to "that thing whose utility I am habituated".

jkkramer
"All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo ..." and a multi-million dollar home in Southern California to put them in.
alaskamiller
Northern California. It was about 1.25 million back then.
dcurtis
Is this that historically-protected house that Steve was trying to give away a few years ago? He described it as "one of the biggest abominations of a house I've ever seen."
pietro
I guess not. He bought the Jackling house in 1984.
spolsky
Boy, I remember seeing that picture when it came out in 1982... it really influenced me.

The article that accompanied it was about how Apple computer had grown so fast that the founders didn't even have time to spend their money and buy furniture. Steve Job's reformulation of this story, as if he were some kind of zen minimalist monk in the old days, sure sounds better than what he said at the time, which was way more prosaic -- something like "I just bought a big house so I would have some place to live and Apple has kept me so busy I haven't had time to buy furniture."

icky
He should get a computer.

Maybe a nice IBM PC that runs DOS... ;-)

tlrobinson
This reminds me of the scene in Garden State where the rich friend who invented silent velcro has a huge mansion with nothing in it.