This is good fun.

Note to self: Don't let your self get talked into taking cheezy PR photos - ever! BTW, that kinda looks like a Plaza Center corner office window.

It looks like plaza center, but I think it may be the second office, behind Burgermaster on 520. Maybe that's clyde hill in the background. Looks almost like snow outside too. Is that a bluescreen back there?

It looks like the La Quinta Inn? Of course La Quinta in Spanish means "Next to Denny's".

He's got a Mac back there to? If I'm not mistaken that Mac has a Windowed UI sitting next to his CLI based IBM. Perhaps he was doing a little R&D for Windows?

I kid I kid.

So, the phone number isn't too far off given this or this. Always classy leadership from Microsoft.

Come on man, you know Steve, he kids, he kids. Besides he is just trying to protect the earth from evil sales aliens.

GooglePark (Back up to page 1 to see the comic).

Fun speeches. Jobs got a lot of flac for his drop out comments, but really the lesson is "drop in". Bono's speech is probably more resonant with me. I'd love to see a bunch of Harvard pencil pushers to forgive money rather than hoard it. It's easy to believe that people who make $1 a day are just worth less, and that capitalism is a perfect force that will balance it out if it needs balancing. The invisible hand only works if everyone has the same goal and same opportunity - to accumulate money.

And I thought I was done after the last LoTR.

Well, at least we got to inside the original rebel cruiser again. I felt all nostalgic and stuff.

Darth Vader: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

I'm looking forward to the Serenity movie the most. Firefly is awesome! Tom Cruise has had a string of lame movies (MI2 being the worst), so I don't know about WOTW. I haven't liked any of the Harry Potter stuff (let's try to make up as many dumb words as we can and put ™ on all of them). Quidditch™ is dumb. Narnia could be OK, except that the books were awesome, and without Peter Jackson directing, I don't see how a movie can live up. I have really low expectations for Star Wars III so it may end up being the most fulfilling of them all!

So am I the only one who actually went to see HHGTTG? I was hoping you guys would go see it so I could find out if I was the only one on the planet to notice the subtly hidden Apple logo in one of the scenes. After weeks of periodic googling, I finally found one other guy who also noticed it. I was begining to think I had imagined the whole thing.

I enjoyed Star Wars. I see the character of Darth Vader more evil now than I did in episodes 4-6.

I need to see Hitchhikers Guide soon.

Serenity could be good and I'll be following it closely.

I have childeren so I will of course be seeing the Hartry Potter movie and Chronicles Of Narnia

Chronicles Of Narnia makes me nervous. Any time they try to turn a clasic into a movie they run the risk of doing so horribly.

War of the Worlds doesn't interest me I'm looking forward to Batman Begins of course I've allways been a comic book guy.

Have I mentioned how disturbing the stories picture is.

I'm not supprised about the Apple logo Adams was a big Apple fan.

Everyone go watch trailer 2 for Serenity NOW!

Heh heh, get it? Serenity now? Alas.

I'm pretty sure that nothing I was listening to in 1987 had a positive influence in my life.

1987 - Appetite for Destruction!

I bet you guys owned copies of Huey Lewis And The News albums.

Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Patrick Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
[raises axe above head]
...

While WTSHNN is my favorite album, and while U2 and that album were very influential for me, it is the producer of that album, Brian Eno who's provided the most influence for me. His hand is in, directly or indirectly, virtually all the music I like, and he is of course the Grand Master of electronica. But it's not just his music, but his blend of art and technology and his thoughts on the role technology can play in our lives that makes him to most interesting to me.

20 years ago today: The Joshua Tree.

One of the best albums of all time.