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Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead inventors of the GIF, died last week from COVID at the age of 74, according to his wife, Kathaleen, who spoke to The Verge. He was surrounded by family when he passed. His obituary page notes that “even with all his accomplishments, he remained a very humble, kind, and good man.”
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Several messages from former colleagues on his obituary page said that Stephen also made other important contributions during his time at CompuServe, describing a hard worker who had a major influence on the company’s success.
After Stephen retired, the couple traveled together. Kathaleen said that one of the most memorable trips was their honeymoon when they visited the Grand Canyon. “I had never seen it before, and he wanted to show it to me,” she said fondly. The couple also went camping “all the time,” she said.
what kind of hell is this
I want to do it
While I understand that not everybody is ok with doing things that make them uncomfortable, powerpoint karaoke is actually a lot of fun. It’s silly, nothing is at stake, and everybody is just there to be creative. It’s basically making up memes on the spot.
There is always something to be gained when you take something that people in business and academics take way too seriously and make it ridiculous.
The irony is that making something ridiculous can also disarm the thing that once felt like hell. I speak at conferences, present pitch decks in biz meetings, and do media interviews fairly regularly. While I still get nervous sometimes, I don’t lose my cool when something goes wrong with the tech because I know that I can improvise to a room, making it seem as if everything is normal while people figure shit out.
I highly recommend trying it, especially if its just with friends who aren’t afraid to nerd out and fuck with shit.
Also: here is my friend @anil ‘winning’ Battle Decks at SXSW 2008.
“The Luddite opposition to machines was, it must be said, not a simple technophobia. As Sale notes, many of the Luddites were weavers or other skilled textile workers who operated their own complicated tools. Their revolt was not against machines in themselves, but against the industrial society that threatened their established ways of life, and of which machines were the chief weapon. To say they fought machines makes about as much sense as saying a boxer fights against fists. As Sale describes it, the Luddite rebellions were never simply against technology, but “what that machinery stood for: the palpable, daily evidence of their having to succumb to forces beyond their control.””
— Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work
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