{"id":180,"date":"2005-08-21T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2005-11-01T01:05:48","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T08:05:48","slug":"a-car-fit-for-a-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/21\/a-car-fit-for-a-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A Car Fit for a God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few things I can&#8217;t stop wondering about Steve Jobs&#8230;<br \/>\n1. What kind of car he drives&#8230;<br \/>\n2. What kind of cell phone he uses&#8230;<br \/>\n3. What kind of PDA he plays with&#8230;<br \/>\n4. What kind of mouse he used (before the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/mightymouse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mighty Mouse<\/a>&#8221; )&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, today I finally found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellbeattie.com\/notebook\/1008538.html\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> that gave me an insight to SJ Obsession #1. According to an ex-employee, he drives a Mercedes MB SL65, BMW Z8 and some sort of Volvo wagon. And none of his cars has license plates; posts on the site claims that since his license plates kept getting stolen, local law enforcement agencies struck a deal with him&#8230;. Nuts.<\/p>\n<p>I am also happy to report that I also got my SJ Obsession #4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almanacnews.com\/morgue\/2004\/2004_02_11.jacklir.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">resolved<\/a>. Just <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?spn=.253484,.427917&#038;saddr=1185+sherwood+ave,+san+jose,+ca&#038;daddr=460+Mountain+Home+Rd,Redwood+City,+CA+94062&#038;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">driving by his house<\/a> would be like taking a peek at God&#8217;s house&#8230; Murdza, I will send you a picture of it if I don&#8217;t die snapping a shot of it first&#8230; Steve has rights too&#8230; So I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be publishing a picture of his house on the Internet for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>Recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2005\/08\/20\/governor-steve\/\" target=\"_blank\">rumors<\/a> of him jumping into the CA governor race is just silly. But I wouldn&#8217;t mind helping with his political campaigns if he did run. Seeing how he revived, reinvented Apple and made it relevant again, California sure could use a governor that can pull its current state of financial and educational slump out of the gutter.<\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Unofficial Apple Weblog<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few things I can&#8217;t stop wondering about Steve Jobs&#8230; 1. What kind of car he drives&#8230; 2. What kind of cell phone he uses&#8230; 3. What kind of PDA he plays with&#8230; 4. What kind of mouse he used (before the &#8220;Mighty Mouse&#8221; )&#8230; Well, today I finally found a site that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/21\/a-car-fit-for-a-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Car Fit for a God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-steve-jobs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-2U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}