Today Apple employees received an e-mail from their CEO, Steve Jobs, who is laid up with pancreatic cancer. We here at SFist have loved Apple computers since we played King's Quest on our friend's Apple IIe. We're also a big fan of Pixar films, located just across the bay in Emeryville, who are also headed by Mr. Jobs. Needless to say, our best wishes for a safe recovery are extended to Mr. Jobs and his family. Luckily, he is expected to pull through after a relatively routine surgical procedure.

If you'd like to support Mr. Jobs, go out and buy an iPod. You know you want one. If you're fabulously wealthy and decadent you could also buy forty iPods, like fashion impresario Karl Lagerfeld has. Better yet, donate some money to the American Cancer Society or stop by their shop in the Piedmont neighborhood of Oakland for some top-notch used furniture and clothes at their Discovery Shop. All proceeds go to benefit cancer research and awareness programs.