49 and a half reasons to give thanks
dan tynan on Nov 26 2008 at 7:23 am | Filed under: 15 minutes, Apple, Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Lists, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Web 2.0, politics, yahoo, youtube
What do retired billionaires, supermodels, search engines, supervillains, energy drinks, whacked-out actors and fried breakfast pastries have in common? They’re some of the things I’m thankful for this year.
If I’m conscious, I’m usually complaining about something. But because it’s almost Thanksgiving I’ve decided to list some of the things I’m grateful for, in and slightly outside the world of tech.
1. Open source software. Because without Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, and all the rest, I’d be stuck using Microsoft products.
2. Bill Gates, for retiring from his day-to-day duties at Microsoft.
2.5. Bill Gates, for retiring from making commercials with Jerry Seinfeld.
3. Churros.
4. Apple fanboys. No group is more slavishly devoted, sycophantic, obsessed, or squeals louder when tweaked.
5. Steve Jobs, who despite the supersized ego makes this gig a lot more interesting than it otherwise would be. Somebody needs to clone him — fast.
6. The Fake Steve Jobs, aka the Real Dan Lyons. For calling Yahoo’s PR team “lying sacks of [excrement]” on his Newsweek blog after they assured him Jerry Yang was not headed out the door. Dan isn’t blogging for Newsweek any more.
7. Yahoo. For surviving, barely.
8. Eliot Spitzer, for revealing the horrible plight of $3,000-an-hour hookers around the world.
9. That the “Steve Ballmer sex video” has never hit the Internet.
For the other 40 reasons, see my Culture Crash blog at Computerworld.com.
Screen grab of T.C. from T.T. lifted from The Daily Mail.
