Editing Jef Raskin (section)

==Outside interests==
Raskin had interests other than computers. He conducted the San Francisco Chamber Opera Society and played various instruments, including the [[organ (music)|organ]] and the [[Recorder (musical instrument)|recorder]]. His artwork was displayed at New York's [[Museum of Modern Art]] as part of its permanent collection, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the University of California, San Diego. He received a patent for airplane wing construction,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://jef.raskincenter.org/home/curriculum_vitae.html |title= Jef Raskin – Curriculum Vitae |access-date=April 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720100442/http://jef.raskincenter.org/home/curriculum_vitae.html |archive-date= July 20, 2007 }}</ref> and designed and marketed radio controlled model [[Glider (aircraft)|gliders]].

He was an accomplished [[Archery|archer]], target shooter, bicycle racer and an occasional model race car driver.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}} He was a musician and composer, publishing a series of collected recorder studies using the pseudonym of Aabel Aabius.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}} In his later years he also wrote [[Freelancer|freelance]] articles for Macintosh magazines, such as ''Mac Home Journal'', and many modeling magazines, ''[[Forbes]]'', ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', and computing journals.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}} One of his favorite pastimes was to play music with his children. He accompanied them on the piano while they played or sang while going through old [[Lead sheet|fake-books]] passed down from his father. They routinely improvised together.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}}

Raskin owned Jef's Friends, a small company which made model airplane kits.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.modelaircraft.org/sites/default/files/files/RaskinJef.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203232257/https://www.modelaircraft.org/sites/default/files/files/RaskinJef.pdf |archive-date=December 3, 2019 |url-status=live|title=The AMA History Project Presents: Autobiography of Jef Raskin|last=Raskin|first=Jef|date=2002|website=Academy of Model Aeronautics|access-date=December 3, 2019}}</ref><ref name="toy valley"/>

He was a toy designer. He designed Space Expander, a hanging cloth maze for a person to walk through. He designed Bloxes, a set of interlocking wood blocks.<ref name="toy valley">{{cite news | newspaper=[[New York Times]] | title=In High-Tech Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurs Turn to Toys | first=Andrew | last=Pollack | date=December 25, 1985 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/25/us/in-high-tech-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-turn-to-toys.html | access-date=February 16, 2021}}</ref>

One of Raskin's instruments was the organ. In 1978 he published an article in ''[[Byte (magazine)|BYTE]]'' on using computers with the instrument.<ref name= "raskin197803">{{Cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1978-03/1978_03_BYTE_03-03_Computer_Music_Systems#page/n57/mode/2up | title=The Microcomputer and the Pipe Organ | work=BYTE | date=March 1978 | access-date=October 17, 2013 | last=Raskin | first=Jef | page=56}}</ref>

Raskin published a paper highly critical of pseudoscience in nursing, such as [[therapeutic touch]] and [[Martha E. Rogers#Nursing theory|Rogerian science]], wherein he said: "Unlike science, nursing theory has no built-in mechanisms for rejecting falsehoods, tautologies, and irrelevancies."<ref name= "Humbug">{{Cite journal | journal=Skeptical Inquirer | title=Rogerian nursing theory: A humbug in the halls of higher learning | date= 2000 | volume=24 | issue=5 | pages=30–35}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | last=Raskin |first =Jef |title=Humbug: Nursing Theory |url=http://www.jefraskin.com/forjef2/jefweb-compiled/published/NursingTheoryForSite.html | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010710223205/http://www.jefraskin.com/forjef2/jefweb-compiled/published/NursingTheoryForSite.html| archive-date=July 10, 2001 | access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref>