Hilarious from Macenstein - Steve Jobs

Macenstein's response to Steve Jobs' liver transplant announcement -- likely fueled by the Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" campaign, but who cares, it's still hilarious.

"Steve Jobs’ alleged liver transplant came as a bit of a shock to Apple fans this week. Given that Jobs is one of the most high-profile and rumored-about CEO’s on the interweb, sometimes we may feel we know everything there is to know about the man. However, Steve is like an onion. He’ll make you cry if you cut him. AND he has layers. Many layers. Here are 13 little known facts that you may not be aware of about everyone’s favorite Apple CEO (not including Gil, of course).

#1 Steve’s liver transplant is not his first organ transplant operation. Over the last 400 years Steve has been gradually replacing all his organs as they wear out.

#2 Steve Jobs’ favorite color is a special color that only he can see called “flursch”. According to a 1996 Vanity Fair article, Steve once described flursch as “sort of like how you see purple, except it’s just about as different as you can imagine.”

#3 Steve Jobs CAN believe it’s not butter.


#4 Steve Jobs can divide by zero.

#5 “Steven Paul Jobs” is an anagram for “Elves Put Banjos”. Think about it.

#6 Despite holding a public funeral for Mac OS 9, Steve still runs Classic on his MacBook Pro to play Sid Meier’s Civilization 2.

#7 Steve has been rumored to be romantically linked to Joan Baez and ex-New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms.

#8 Steve’s first fruit-themed computer company, Elderberry Computers, went under in 1975 shortly after Monty Python’s The Holy Grail was released and turned the once proud fruit into a joke.

#9 Contrary to popular belief, there does not appear to be any direct correlation between N2N (the tail number on Steve Jobs’ Gulfstream 5 Jet) and the Los Angeles-based N2N erotic men’s clothing store.

#10 According to scientists who study such things, the “most uncomfortable moment ever recorded” occurred in Cupertino CA, March 18th, 2004 during a 75-minute Steve Jobs tongue-lashing given to a technician who could not get a projector working.

#11 Steve Jobs was originally up for the role or “Neo” in the Matrix movies, but the Wachowski brothers didn’t feel like doing a documentary.

#12 Steve Jobs can pee at a urinal even if flanked on both sides and with a line behind him.

#13 Steve Jobs has cried only once during his life - while watching the movie Sophie’s Choice. It wasn’t the heart-wrenching plot that made Steve tear up, it was reportedly the idea of a person being given “choice” that got to him."

Interesting feedback from my father on the Google Power Meter

In an email from Dan K.:

When we lived in Brunswick, we had an all electric house. We had a demand meter installed to regulate our electric usage. This sounds like the same kind of technology. It regulated the furnace, hot water tank, and the washer and dryer. It limited the peak demand which was the basis for your electric bill. At that time, only two places in the country had demand meters,Cleveland and Denver. This meter was designed for all electric houses only. Many all electric homes were constructed in the mid to late 70's because there was a gas shortage. These new devices seem to be designed to work with any power source. Selling these will be like shooting fish in a barrel. We were the second people on our street to purchase the demand meter and within six months, almost everyone on the block had one. We used to have contests to see who could have the lowest demand for the month. That is,without having your wife complain about it being too cold in the house. The way Obama is headed, he should offer a subsidy for the purchase on these. They will only work if your house is well insulated and you can afford repairs to bring it up to code. I wonder is Google is going to make this a spinoff company or just operate it within the original company. Buy Google.

Interesting. I wasn't aware.



bk

Google Power Meter

Google Power Meter isn't out yet but, as with most things Google, there is already a lot of talk about the service.



I think this is a great tool to actualize power usage on a smaller scale and have a greater impact per household. I'd be willing to bet it doesn't take long before the resulting stats are the norm on home sale info flyers and energy usage becomes a much more significant selling point for both buyers and sellers.

The service is said to roll out by the end of the calendar year.

bk

What's wrong with this picture?

Soooo...here's a picture I took about five minutes ago when I got home and pulled into my parking garage. It's a bucket catching water that's clearly dripping from a leaky pipe...in the garage...where all of the cars drive...after rain, snow etc...

Why?

More than one way to recycle

Nothing like using someone else's billboard to make the point of yours: Canadian hardware store advertises paint recycling via Apple's existing ad.

The Google goats.

Google has reported that it will no longer pay for a traditional lawn service at its Mountain View headquarters. Instead, it will opt for a greener option: goats. The goats will be "rented" from a local farmer and will be periodically allowed to graze in the fields in order to maintain the grass and prevent wild fires while reducing carbon emissions and gasoline consumption of mowers.

Photo: Google

i hope someone can get this app past apple.

Of course they did...

If I saw this in a bar I would totally fall for it. No doubt in my mind.