Posted on 10/16/2013 5:27:05 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
A new memoir by his ex-girlfriend sheds light on the cult of Steve Jobs.
Albert Watson
Chrisann Brennan first met Steve Jobs in 1972, while they were both students at Homestead HS in Cupertino, Calif. Over the next five years, they dated off and on throughout their teens and early 20s. The two were living together with their friend Daniel Kottke, a computer engineer and one of the earliest employees of Apple, in 1977, when the company took off.
The two finally ended their romantic relationship for good in late 1977, after Brennan became pregnant with their daughter, Lisa. Brennan worked as a waitress and collected welfare checks to support herself and their baby daughter. Modal Trigger
Chrisann Brennan was Jobs’ first girlfriend.
Jobs publicly denied he was Lisa’s father for years, even though he took a paternity test in 1979 proving he was the dad. He was paying $500 a month in child support when he told Time magazine in 1983, “28 percent of the male population in the United States could be the father.”
Today, Brennan is a painter and graphic designer living in Monterey, Calif., and Lisa is a Harvard-educated journalist.
Here, in an exclusive excerpt from Brennan’s first-person tale, “The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life With Steve Jobs” (on sale Oct. 29), she describes her frustrating, difficult and passionate years with the business visionary…
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I wouldn't name a kid Modal Trigger, but whatever ...
Life Rule #137: Don’t be a jerk
Life Rule #138: Don’t have exes
I agree. Modala sounds more feminine.
I wonder if she would have gotten into Harvard if her last name wasn’t Jobs?
Maybe if Jobs was a responsible father she would have had no motive to be equally public.
Many people who are professional victors are moral failures.
Sounds like her name is Lisa from my reading. Modal Trigger just seems to be inserted in the middle of the piece.
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Yeah, let’s dish on the dead guy who can’t defend himself.
Sick.
Yeah, well, “He was paying $500 a month in child support when he told Time magazine in 1983,”
What a prince!, especially since he knew the child was his.
I don’t blame the woman here...Maybe he didn’t owe her specifically and he probably did not but he DID owe his daughter, especially back then.
Hot off the presses from 36 years ago !!
What IS a modal trigger?
She is copying Steve Jobs entrepreneurial spirit
I hope she makes a ton of money on this book. She will make even more since she was smart enough to wait for Steve Jobs to die. He is not around to direct his flunkies to refute parts of it and assassinate her via gossip he has his flunkies spread
No one else is writing such a personal book on Steve Jobs. So she has this market all to herself
Sounds like her name is Lisa from my reading. Modal Trigger just seems to be inserted in the middle of the piece.
Story is, the original Apple Lisa (old, very old, very expensive for the time Mac) was named after her.
Another case of an ex cashing in for dishing out...
All this was 35 years ago, and the principle player is dead. Time to leave it be.
Yep he named it after his first daughter LIsa Nicole Brennan. However Modal Trigger might have been a cooler name for the puter.
Reading about Job’s life, is knowledge about what a life is like without God.
Some guy releasing a book claiming that he had a pervert love affair with Jobs in 3...2...1
LOL, Modal Trigger has to do with coding and popups. It is not the girl’s name, which is Lisa.
Charming.
Anyone paying attention knows that Jobs has always been a lousy guy.
Gates is more widely reviled, but except for some unpopular business practices, he does appear to be much more of a genuinely decent man.
Would Modal Trigger be a good porn star name?
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