Posted on 09/29/2015 12:02:33 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
At this point there’s no point in aggregating ever last this and that about Ahmed Mohamed, especially since this is the newspaper that has Avi Selk on the payroll. But a reader did forward a Facebook post in which you might be interested — and, no, not Mark Zuckerberg’s, but an overnight post from Apple co-founder (and Midlake fan) Steve Wozniak.
Related Irving 9th-grader goes from handcuffed to hero over homemade clock frenzy GOP candidates weigh in on Ahmed Mohamed arrest for ‘hoax bomb’ Editorial: Overreaction in clock-bomb mix-up has chilling effect It began with a few sentences in which The Man Called Woz recounts his origin story, before he met Steve Jobs and crafted that garage myth. Wrote Wozniak, without mentioning Ahmed by name:
The story about the kid arrested for making a clock takes me back to high school in 1967. I built an electronic metronome and placed it in a friend’s locker, along with a tin-foil switch to speed up the ticking when the locker was opened. I couldn’t hold my laughter when Principal Bryld told me how he extracted the ‘bomb’, ran out to the football field (from the C building), and dismantled it. I wound up spending a night in ‘juvie’. I did teach other inmates there how they could remove the electric wires from an overhead fan and attach them to the metal bars no shock the guards. And that could have been the end of it — a retelling of the origin story also found in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. But instead, Wozniak responded to fans who thumbsed-up the well-known story.
Wrote one Steven Schuster of Racine, Wisconsin: “Sounds like you could have gone either way.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thescoopblog.dallasnews.com ...
Wozniak has always been a hopeless flake.
Odd. He didn’t seem like an idiot when I met him.
Why have the American people become so STUPID?
I photocopied “Moby Dick” today. I am now a published author!
How can otherwise smart people at times be so irredeemably, hopelessly, embarrassingly stupid?
He always struck me as the homely nerd who finally found the means to acquire friends.
Apple sucks, left them right after iBrick 3s came out.
They are deliberately being “trained” and taught” and indoctrinated by Obola’s elite ABCNNBCBS press corpse.
This story was proved false within 6 hours. And now, two WEEKS later, it is still being pushed by the media. Instead of being laughed at.
A hero? Nonsense. Maybe a fraud, but certainly no hero. Has Steve spoken out for real heroes - those who have risked their lives and done something heroic?
Nothing good comes from apple.
Go back to “Dancing With The Stars”
All his money and he can’t buy himself a neck
Wozniak is a no body and love to ride in the wake of Steve Job
All but the very earliest reports made it crystal clear that this was a hoax. Wozniak is not stupid; he simply hates America.
If the kid had taken the guts out of an iPhone and said he invented it. You’d be reading about the youngest plaintiff to be sued by Apple.
12 years of government controlled schooling will do that.
Nope.
He’s actually just the nicest guy and always has been.
apple makes some good products but this is INSANE!
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