First of all Steve Jobs didn’t die.  He simply gave up day to day responsibilities to become Apple’s chairman of the board.  I have an iPhone, an Air and love the cartoons.  But he never came into the store for a cone despite our location close to MIT.

But I did have one very short direct observation of Jobs, some years ago.  Now he’s famous for wearing turtlenecks and blue jeans but there was a period when he dressed with a French flair.  He even had a cool haircut.  He was quite noticeable when I saw him waiting for an elevator in what was then the new Media Lab, the Weisner Building designed by I.M. Pei.  If you had a still camera, or only had a still camera he was the well turned out image then being projected by the press.  But if you rode the elevator with him he was a bundle of tics and twitches, with a little Gates-like davening thrown in.