Two things I enjoy about that set of photos: 1. "The world pisses itself like an excited dog". That's a Wheatfieldism if ever I heard one, and beautifully descriptive of "the market's" reaction to Mac stuff.
2. Both Jobs and Ballmer clearly model themselves on Picard's "intelligent, high-domed forehead", as some of us like to describe "bald", but Jobs obviously can't afford a two-tone turtleneck and has to make do with the all-black cheapo version. B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Igor Roshchin > Sent: 21 June 2012 21:10 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: no Jobs... > > > > Thu Jun 21 13:21:21 EDT 2012 > Larry Colen wrote: > > > On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > > > http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/apple?before=1340251077 > > (And I meant to provide the direct link to the image > http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5y878Y9fj1rsi9gfo1_1280.jpg ) > > > > > > > (I am not quite getting the reference to Picard, - but I guess I > > > don't know Star Trek series that well) > > > > In Star Trek TNG, back in the late 80's something that looks > basically > > like an iPad was the standard data display, computer interface > device. > > That part is clear. It was the caption for the 4th image that was not > quite clear to me. > While trying to google, I saw some similar phrasing, e.g. in this > image: > http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bitch-please-those- > shoes-with-that-top.png > So, I was suspecting that this expression might have some reference to > some episode or phrase of Picard, but couldn't find that reference > > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
