Like a Hot Business Card Through Butter
A few weeks ago, Steve Wozniak, the furry co-founder of Apple, showed up on The Colbert Report. What else they talked about I will never recall, because all I can think about is how Woz likes to fly and freak out his first-class flight attendants by cutting up his steak with his business card.
It’s true. As he proved to Stephen Colbert, Steve Wozniak’s Lucklow-designed business card is made of some sort of thin, light, super-sharp metal that is so smooth, it “cuts the side of the steak like marble,” according to Wozniak. The inveterate prankster also sprinkles pepper on his plate and pretends to be shaving with the card when flight attendants come to clear his tray. An uncharacteristically stunned Colbert couldn’t help breaking character as he snarfled that he could have Wozniak classified as an “enemy combatant” for bringing sharp metal objects aboard airplanes.
Thank god for Wired’s blog for giving satisfaction to us geeks everywhere by providing a close-up look at Wozniak’s curious steak knife.
You can watch the September 28 interview on the newly Googled YouTube.
I’d like to get one of those business cards myself—if only to see how in the world he gets through metal detectors.
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Like marble?
Huh?
Either Woz buys very bad steaks, or very bad knives/business cards
How can I get tickets to the premiere of Woz's ultimate Business Card Cut-Off where the top names in tech square off against Kobe, T-bones, and brisket?
Fly next to him and wait for the card to sllice through his wallet, pants, and other bits.
And I bet Wozniak uses his pens as chopsticks. I guess if you're on a budget, you need to have your office supplies double as dinnerware.
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William Gibson (was it in "Virtual Light"?) has a character, a highly placed TV network exec, whose business card is made of synthetic saphire... and each one comes with a suede case to keep it in.
Cut Woz some slack, guys. Design the Apple computer and you should get a pass for the rest of your life.
I think it's hysterical. I admire the guy who has such a wacky sense of humor!