Reading this blog made me remember reading this Wired story from way back when I thought Wired was a good magazine (GO Maximum PC!) and the quote that really caught my eye was "Everyone has their Steve-Jobs-the-asshole story." I think it stood out because, on TV at least, he seemed nice enough, but mostly I wanted ammunition for arguments with my Mac fanboy friends.

More recently I remember reading about Apple pulling an entire e-book collection from one publisher after said publisher produced an unauthorized biography with the double entendre title "iCon: Steve Jobs" which is a move that I consider a far cry from "Do no evil."

Even Steve Wozniak openly said: "I couldn't treat people the way he does"

But do geniuses need to be assholes?

I would say that there is a fine line between tough love and devaluing the people around you. That fence dance can make a C feel like an A; but it makes the kid who fails feel all the more hopeless.

And for the frenchies:
Manau - La Tribu De Dana lyrics

Le vent souffle sur les plaines de la Bretagne armoricaine,
je jette un dernier regard sur ma femme, mon fils et mon domaine.
Akim, le fils du forgeron est venu me chercher, les druides ont décidé de mener le combat dans la vallée.
Là, où tous nos ancêtres, de géants guerriers celtes, après de grandes batailles, se sont imposés en maîtres, c'est l'heure maintenant de défendre notre terre contre une armée de Simeriens prête à croiser le fer.
Toute la tribu s'est réunie autour de grands menhirs, pour invoquer les dieux afin qu'ils puissent nous bénir. Après cette prière avec mes frères sans faire état de zèle, les chefs nous ont donné à tous des gorgées d'hydromel, pour le courage, pour pas qu'il y ait de faille, pour rester grand set fiers quand nous serons dans la bataille car c'est la première fois pour moi que je pars au combat et j'espère être digne de la tribu de Dana.

REFRAIN
Dans la vallée de DAna La lilala.
Dans la vallée j'ai pu entendre les échos.
Dans la vallée de Dana La lilala.
Dans la vallée des chants de guerre près des tombeaux.

Après quelques incantations de druides et de magie, toute la tribu, le glaive en main courait vers l'ennemi, la lutte était terrible et je ne voyais que les ombres, tranchant l'ennemi qui revenait toujours en surnombre.
Mes frères tombaient l'un après l'autre devant mon regard, sous le poids des armes que possédaient tous ces barbares, des lances, des haches et des épées dans le jardin d'Eden qui écoulait du sang sur l'herbe verte de la plaine. Comme ces jours de peine où l'homme se traîne à la limite du règne du mal et de la haine, fallait-il continuer ce combat déjà perdu, mais telle était la fierté de toute la tribu, la lutte a continué comme ça jusqu'au soleil couchant, de férocité extrême en plus d'acharnement, fallait défendre la terre de nos ancêtres enterrés là et pour toutes les lois de la tribu de Dana.

REFRAIN

Au bout de la vallée on entendait le son d'une corne, d'un chef ennemi qui appelait toute sa horde, avait-il compris qu'on lutterait même en enfer et qu'à la tribu de Dana appartenaient ces terres. Les guerriers repartaient, je ne comprenais pas tout le chemin qu'ils avaient fait pour en arriver là,quand mon regard se posa tout autour de moi, j'étais le seul debout de la tribu voilà pourquoi. Mes doigts se sont écartés tout en lâchant mes arme set le long de mes joues se sont mises à couler des larmes, je n'ai jamais compris pourquoi les dieux m'ont épargné de ce jour noir de notre histoire que j'ai contée.
Le vent souffle toujours sur la Bretagne armoricaine et j'ai rejoins ma femme, mon fils et mon domaine, j'ai tout reconstruit de mes mains pour en arriver là, je suis devenu roi de la tribu de Dana.

REFRAIN

I must be getting old. I totally didn't pick up on the double entendre at first. In my youth, I would have been thinking about it long before you'd written it.

Ah, the good old days.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
>> ^lucky760:

If everyone else if up for it, let's do it closer to (or in) Orange County, so I can make it as well. (My ban hammer is too heavy to be carried long distances.)
We could do a more general purpose spot like BJ's Restaurant and Brewery at the Brea Mall, which just across the border from LA County.


Done! Let's meet there. I love BJs. The brewery that is. And the ones where women put their lips on or around my junk until I go sploosh. I instantly recognized that as an uncalled for addition to my comment.

"As you know they're not praying for you to become happy and fulfilled, but for you to become religious."

Actually Pat, you don't know that. As an atheist myself I know lots of people who pray for me to be exactly those things and who also respect my atheism. So, just for you Pat, I'm sending out a prayer--that you can become happy and fulfilled and get back to living your life instead of posting exaggerated and self-aggrandizing videos on the Interwebs. You had a great message once, but these days you're just baiting religious folk. You're very masterful at it, by the way, so I hereby grant you the title of "Master Baiter," a double entendre that I think aptly describes what you're doing in this vid.

>> ^hpqp:

Can someone explain the llamas?


They're a South American camelid.

Your video, Mike Rowe: King of Double-Entendre, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Bah, I can recite the last 3 phone numbers of the girls that dumped me without blinking as well, and I am not a stalker. You want to impress me data, tell me a racy joke with double-entendre.

>> ^jmzero:

You woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning didn't you
No, I'm having a good day (my birthday, actually), and I just watched the Reginald Hunter clip which I thought was great.
I just don't like this kind of humor. I don't think random pop culture references, double entendres (haha, "slit"!), or the combination of the two are particularly funny.


It's ok since it was first and foremost a poem, the funny (for some) part is just an added bonus.

You woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning didn't you


No, I'm having a good day (my birthday, actually), and I just watched the Reginald Hunter clip which I thought was great.

I just don't like this kind of humor. I don't think random pop culture references, double entendres (haha, "slit"!), or the combination of the two are particularly funny.

You woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning didn't you - You just may need a fresh glass of OJ to pull out of that stupor I for one, *promote the acceptance of some good natured nerd-humor and enjoy the fun to which he and the audience are having

>> ^jmzero:


So, to do "nerd" humor the plan is to avoid anything actually nerdy. Stick to the most often recycled bits of pop culture and pop science, mix in some clumsy, senseless double entendres so that people know when to laugh, and you're good to go.

I think lots of people believe "high level science" consists of 3 or 4 ideas:

1. In Schrodinger's thought experiment, a cat in a box could be seen as both alive and dead until an observer collapses the waveform
2. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says you can't know both the exact position and momentum of a particle
3. General relativity states time slows and mass increases for objects at relative high velocity
4. Light's behavior exhibits a wave/particle duality, as demonstrated by interference experiments

Know those 4 things? Have you watched Star Wars once? Good, you're now equipped to understand pretty much all "oh wow that guy's a crazy brainiac nerd" humor. Somehow if you reference things like that, you get a pass to do a comedy routine without any jokes. You're stroking people's ego enough that they don't care you're not funny.

I think people would just get pissed off if he left the "nerd humor" script, though. People don't want to be challenged, or hear pop culture references they don't know. Anyone who's the tiniest, tiniest bit interested in Greek mythology knows Pandora opened a jar, not a box - but nobody wants to hear a joke involving Pandora's jar. They want the same reference that 1000 previous pop cultural references have prepared them for. They want affirmation that they're part of the special club that knows about stuff.

So, to do "nerd" humor the plan is to avoid anything actually nerdy. Stick to the most often recycled bits of pop culture and pop science, mix in some clumsy, senseless double entendres so that people know when to laugh, and you're good to go.

Unintentional double entendres are the best.

>> ^Sarzy:

...I don't get it. I'm slow. What am I looking for here?


The order in which they arranged the shots gives it a racist double entendre lol

I'm looking forward to seeing what all the hubbub is about.

Nice double entendre with the "train wreck" tag there, netrunner.

Found this review of the first 10 minutes for anyone that's interested
http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/101208-gleaves-atlas-preview.php

For those Americans who didn't get the reference, Orange is a wireless carrier in Europe, like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc.

Apple does like to switch dongles pretty often. Seems they've finally settled on Mini-DisplayPort. Problem is they charge $29 for them.

ant, banana would not fit into the double-entendre theme because it doesn't actually mean anything when it comes to computers or electronics.