CES Quotes.

[sensaes]

“Before Twitter, if I wanted to know what a person thought their cat was thinking...I would have been an idiot.” - Seth Meyers.

http://www.inquisitr.com/55697/steve-ballmer-ces-2010-keynote-speech/

Comments

[perpetua_redux]

Even after Twitter, if I wanted to know what a person thought their cat was thinking, I would be an idiot.

[sensaes]

astartesyriaca was explaining a picture-taking application she's got on her iPhone to me yesterday. Apparently you're supposed to take a photograph, then shake the 'phone like an oldschool Polaroid whilst the picture pretends to "develop".

I'm fairly convinced that we're all living in a track off Bowie's Diamond Dogs album now, I'm just not sure which one...

[trailer_spot]

Regarding Twitter: You can't much better target-market than that.

[sensaes]

Now that is scarily brilliant. (Although I'm sticking by my original contention that ADHD was something they had marketable medications for long before they invented an actual "condition" to treat, if you get my drift.)

Re: e-mail. Whilst I salute the sheer techie goodness of your acquisition, I'm getting a bit like Chuck Heston and his rifle where my VHS machines are concerned. (Ro and I did once discuss transferring my tapes to a digital format, but since the exercise has to be conducted in real time, and I've got at least a couple of thousand of 'em, some sort of human cloning programme would be in order!)

[helice]

It's either cloning or bribing the Gargs to do it, in which case they'd probably charge you an arm and a leg in absinthe.

[sensaes]

*G* I'll take cloning.

Some of that stuff goes back to the early 1980s. I don't want them getting their filthy little talons on it!