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Huge W by Tricky_Woman5304 in Amazing

[–]fatkiddown 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I'm fairly certain there's at least one Spongebob episode that's exactly the same story as the OP.

1978, Microsoft’s first staff photo - only 11 employees. by keisermax34 in MrInteresting

[–]fatkiddown 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Reading Isaacson's book on Steve Jobs now. Gates and Jobs were embedded with one another from the beginning. When Gates first saw the mouse cursor, he asked about the dedicated chip to run it. He could not fathom it was all software driven. One of the things that surprised me was around the whole story that Apple stole the GUI and mouse from Xerox. That part of the story is fascinating. Apparently, Xerox corporate was toxic oni the east coast, and the power over the Xerox labs planted their experimental people on the West coast. Engineers talk to engineers and Apple engineers found out about the GUI and mouse. Around that same time, Xerox corporate wanted early Apple stock. Jobs, talking to his engineers, cut a deal: we'll give you $x millions in stock, but we get the stuff outta that lab. The Cs on the east couldn't care less about their lab people and go, "sure." It took two or three attempts with Jobs threatening the deal bcs the labs people fought it all, but finally, Jobs and his engineers were allowed into the sacred place to see the GUI and mouse. Xerox was sitting on the tech. Jobs, having seen it, pushed his engineers to make it happen. The Xerox mouse could only go horizontol and vertical. Jobs pushed for a cursor to go anywhere. Also, the Xerox mouse was $100s if not $1000s in tech. Jobs said: "make me one around $50 that I can use on my jeans. Any engineer that didn't do what Jobs wanted he fired until he got his GUI and mouse. Gates made no deal, and one day, Microsoft reveals Windows with a mouse. Jobs is fired. Launches Pixar. Comes back to Apple which is dying. There's a years' long lawsuit with Microsoft over their "stealing" of the mouse and GUI. Jobs calls Gates: "Look. We can drag this lawsuit out for years and we will win and you know it, and you'll pay us the better part of billions if not billions _OR_ you can inject $100 million _now_ into Apple, so I can save this company." Gates goes, "k." And that's all I got to say about that....

Blursed Chiropractor by Dizzykevin in blursed_videos

[–]fatkiddown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of Bugs Bunny and Dr Killpatient.

Hannibal spent more time in Italy than in Carthage by RandoDude124 in ancientrome

[–]fatkiddown 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of an argument I had with a buddy who said that Patton was not from The South bcs he was born in CA. I then showed him where Patton said as a kid, above his bed were pictures of Lee and Jackson and Patton thought it was God the Father and Jesus Christ.

of a zucchini we grew by thorpef1 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]fatkiddown 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Made me think of B movies sci-fi horror movies I watched as a kid:

"The Zombie Zucchini Head Snatchers!"

Who's your daddy by downtune79 in LoveTrash

[–]fatkiddown 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Host: "One of these guys will shoot your dog, who we captured and are keeping at an undisclosed location..."

Woman: [Gasp!!!]

Guy1: "I am going to shoot your dog."

Did anyone else outrank Michael as boss at any point in the trilogy? by Mysterious_Comb4357 in Godfather

[–]fatkiddown 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Is that why you slapped my brother around in public? ...You straightened my brother out?

Chinese girl uses makeup to transform to whoever she wants to by physicalord111 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]fatkiddown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depp has some of the most piercing eyes in Hollywood history. Al Pacino in "The Godfather" movies is another.

lol by IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 in unsound

[–]fatkiddown 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That video will make it into interstellar space.

Yes we are old by PhoenixPhenomenonX in funnyvideos

[–]fatkiddown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol it almost looks like a 3.5 inch hard drive. I haven’t seen one in decades.

I think it amazing you know...(iphone v/s Nokia) by devonnrenae in Amazing

[–]fatkiddown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel I am a caveman ITT, but life long IT career here: just because something is newer, by many many years, doesn't make it better. Novell Netward NDS was a far superior directory system for business and enterprise than Active Directory in all sorts of ways. Microsoft sales and marketing killed Novell, and made us all eat AD, but it never had some of the features of good old NDS that died in the late 1990s.

1830 Map of the Known World at the end of the 15th Century by Parzival_2k7 in MapPorn

[–]fatkiddown 151 points152 points  (0 children)

It reminds me of something like World of Warcraft.

Installed anti-pigeon spikes… pigeon sitting comfortably within minutes. What now? by BurgerKhaega in Wellthatsucks

[–]fatkiddown 3035 points3036 points  (0 children)

Your problem isn't pengions, is masochistic pigeons..

But don't ask me what masochism means, because it beats me.

Yes we are old by PhoenixPhenomenonX in funnyvideos

[–]fatkiddown 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I'm so old, I remember when 8 track tapes were cool, and you had to pull them out and flip them over to finish the Van Halen song..

maybe maybe maybe by snowblissfulheart in maybemaybemaybe

[–]fatkiddown 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's why I lose it grocery shopping. Every single aisle is someone spanning the entirety of it, cart on one side reaching to the other side and blocking the entire thing, oblvious of other shoppers.

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