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Real Steve Jobs and 'Fake Steve Jobs' Back to Their... Jobs

by Terrence O'Brien on June 24, 2009 at 02:35 PM

Real Jobs and Fake Jobs Back to Work
Back in January, Steve Jobs took a leave of absence for vague health reasons that he said had something to do with a "hormone imbalance." After six months of his being M.I.A., we heard rumblings earlier this month that the leader of the Cult of Mac was preparing to make his grand return.

Well, it's official, says MacRumors; Jobs is back on -- well -- the job. And we've even gotten some clarification; when the turtleneck-clad CEO said "hormone imbalance" he actually meant "complete liver failure." Methodist University Hospital in Tennessee confirmed rumors that Jobs had a liver transplant after being bumped to the front of the waiting list. According to the hospital, the CEO had the highest MELD score (a standardized scale for measuring the severity of liver disease) for his blood type, allowing him to jump ahead of others also waiting for a transplant.

Apparently, after just two months of recovery, the industry icon has returned to the Apple campus, though it's expected to be only on a part-time basis for a while.

Oddly, the real Steve Jobs's return is coinciding with the resurfacing of Dan Lyons -- better known as Fake Steve Jobs. Lyons anonymously blogged as Fake Steve Jobs (until about a year ago), poking fun at Jobs's notoriously bad temper, cult-like following, and status as king of the computer company heap (at least from a PR standpoint). He even turned his schtick into a book.

Originally, Lyons canned the Fake Jobs bit at least partially out of respect for the real-life health problems of his satirical target. This leads Gawker to pose an interesting question. Is the return of Fake Jobs a vote of confidence in the real Jobs's health? If Lyons is comfortable enough to mock the leader of the company that only seems to know how to make things in black, white, and brushed metal, perhaps Woz's recent characterization of Jobs as "healthy" and "energetic" wasn't just an attempt to quell an increasingly suspicious press. [From: MacRumors and Gawker]

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