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Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog.

Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry.

Looks like a good forecast, I hope they aren’t as wrong as they were about the snowstorm

In the end Steve Jobs’ contempt for human life did not exempt his own. He sacrificed himself thoughtlessly in one final and meaningless act, an act of radical branding so brave and revolutionary the media listed the cause of death as pancreatic cancer.

Of course, as we learn in Steve Jobs, to attribute Steve Jobs’ death to pancreatic cancer is to libel the cancer. In 2003 Steve Jobs had a pancreatic cancer scare that turned out to be a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, an extremely rare and slow-growing condition that accounts for only 1 percent of pancreatic cancer cases. It was the best-case scenario. His wife told Isaacson she remembered his doctors “tearing up with joy” when they learned the good news.

But then Steve Jobs refused to have surgery, once again putting all his faith and bullying, reality-blind certitude into his insufferable brand of sanctimonious veganism. This wasn’t a matter of passing up radiation and chemo; this was a matter of passing up every cancer patient’s dream of not even having to go through radiation and chemo.

“The big thing,” his wife explained to Isaacson, “was that he really was not ready to open his body,” as if such a move might jeopardize his manufacturer’s warranty. Then, burrowing into the depths of reality distortion, she added: “It’s hard to push someone to do that.”

WHAT IN KRISHNA’S NAME WAS HE DOING GETTING A BIOPSY THEN?!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-19

  • "I’ve spent the past year and a half of my life in library school, and about three years before that…" http://t.co/wkKWLh3A #
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  • Photo: Goodnight, Sweet Prince http://t.co/kEkTHetA #
  • Photo: Got OLDS? http://t.co/Pbg4n510 #
  • Photo: Charlotte Free as a ZOMBIE terrysdiary: http://t.co/SQcfrtUw #
  • Hey if you are not already following @vikileaks30 you may have already missed that he allegedly schtupped the babysitter. #c30 #
  • Defiant Iran threatens to cut off oil shipments to European countries – The Globe and Mail – Really this… http://t.co/d00oU3wo #
  • Photo: How could you stay angry at that happy looking face? http://t.co/oV7IJBlm #
  • "CBS, for its part, points out that the characters of Holmes and Watson are now in the public domain,…" http://t.co/J81HMy3l #
  • Wheels of Degrassi fame first reported dead in January on Facebook | Arts | National Post – What? Wheels is… http://t.co/EQK4SgRv #
  • Photo: Freedom, Liberty? Nope, Cops Tased Her (and broke her leg) http://t.co/sCgjKnIV #
  • Photo: Oh, Come on! Why isn’t he out golfing or playing chess or something? http://t.co/SxnENeBS #

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