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Hey, I Thought It Was Pure Comedy Gold
By Nick | October 12, 2009
I’m not sure if The Globe and Mail thought my Microsoft Watch blog posting constituted the “insightful,” “colorful,” or “just plain weird” part of its round-up, but they quoted me talking this week about Windows 7 and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer:
“What new features await you with the Steve Ballmer edition of Windows 7? For starters, when you open the box, it yells, ‘Developers! Developers! Developers!’ at 200 decibels. And then it tries to smash any iPhones in the vicinity.”
– eWeek Microsoft Watch blogger Nicholas Kolakowski jokes about the special features of a limited edition of Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system. The special edition – in reality, just Windows 7 Ultimate in pimped-up packaging and autographed by the Microsoft CEO – is being offered as a perk to people who volunteer to host a house party in celebration of Windows 7’s launch on Oct. 22.”
Actually, I’ll just opt for “weird” on my part. Or maybe, “moderately caffeinated.” I say “moderately,” because when I become “overly caffeinated” (i.e, three giant cups of coffee instead of one, from the shop across the street whose brewing urn hasn’t been cleaned since the Nixon administration), I start imitating Robert Downey Jr. in this. And that’s just not good for my office furniture.
In other exciting news (well, exciting to me, but I don’t see any other bloggers here, so pipe down), I received my advance copies of the special edition of the Playboy Complete Guide to Cigars, a massive coffee-table dome that feels (at least from my perspective, as co-author) that it’s been in development for the last ten thousand years, even though the actual writing took around three months. The mass-market edition should be out at the beginning of Q2 2010.
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