i guess a segway could be pretty useful

listening to the steve jobs audio book (steve used to CRY in meetings) and, as of disc 4, the biggest hero is steve wozniak, the engineer who started apple with jobs. here’s woz discussing his visit with kanye west and kim kardashian:

The visit came out of a cold call from an eight-months-pregnant Kardashian, hoping to concoct a birthday surprise for Kanye, a longtime Apple fan boy. Not that Woz—Silicon Valley’s sunniest emeritus figure, a genial geek godfather man-child who rides around Los Gatos, California, waving and grinning on his Segway and makes a point of dining with fans and reading every Facebook message he gets—knew who the tabloid-fixture couple was. “Oh my gosh, I don’t watch TV. I’d never seen her,” says Woz, who, indeed, rode up to meet me on a Segway (and then continued riding past me, grinning and waving, somewhat obliviously).