Pbur’s Adventures

The life and times of Patrick Burleson

Category Archives: Thinking

Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

Posted on by Patrick

Yesterday one of my heroes, Steve Jobs, died. For reasons I’m still trying to understand, when I learned of his death, I immediately had tears in my eyes. Tears for a man I had never met. Steve’s vision and his company’s products are the reason I have a career at all. From programming on my [...]

Something Odd

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I discovered something odd about my thinking the other day. Some of you may not know this, but my mom died in 1984 when I was 6. The thing I discovered is how deeply this affects my thinking about other people and their parents. If someone older than me mentions that they are doing something [...]