February 2009
Playboy interviews Steve Jobs (from 1985) →
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There are some hilariously dated remarks in here, but it’s incredible how much foresight Steve shows, especially when it comes to the crazy idea of the internet (the WWW was the breakthrough he predicted here):
JOBS: The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people—as remarkable as the telephone.
PLAYBOY: Specifically, what kind of breakthrough are you talking about?
JOBS: I can only begin to speculate. We see that a lot in our industry: You don’t know exactly what’s going to result, but you know it’s something very big and very good.
January 2009
Play
The Decepticons Actually Used the Hangar Door!
Meeting with Megatron went as well as I could have hoped, if not a little predictable. He went on and on about securing energy and so forth. Turns out they use a lot of it.
That blackout in Toronto last week was their doing. Something went wrong when they were sapping energy at one of the transformer stations (no pun intended) and the city block went dark.
As a nice side effect, it was definitely evil to leave all those seniors without power during the coldest week of the year. They’re so evil that they’re accidentally evil. I admire that.
Megatron and I didn’t really have much business to speak of other than that, however. Most of the conversation then revolved around whose movie was going to be better. I told him the only movies of us that mattered were the ones from the ‘80s, even though they both had considerably defamatory depictions of the both of us in them.
He agreed. We also agreed that the COBRA movie will be better because it won’t have that turd-burglar Shia LaBeouf in it.
Oh they brought Soundwave this time, and he played me the new OutKast. Those little robot tapes look cute at first but that bugger Frenzy tried to bite me.
