Bwah-HAH/wow!1 Ashton KUTCHER can remember where he was when Steve JOBS died!1

[UTUSN]

Wasn't that, like, one or maybe two years ago?!1

He was just interviewed on GMA and I guess he's being paid to pretend to be JOBS in a movie or something (I really don't care about Ashton KUTCHER), but absurdity pricks up my ears, so this passed through the filter:

He said that, like how it is said that lots of people remember where they were when JFK died (I don't think he said "was killed&quot , SAME THING *he* remembers where HE was when JOBS died!1

Wow, like, a whole YEAR ago or TWO!1 Even more kicking, he didn't say WHERE HE WAS, and the intrepid GMA reporter did not do a reporter-like follow up question. After all, it might have been in a hot tub or maybe in some den celebrities hole up in to do who knows what.

Just saying that Steve JOBS and Pearl Harbor?!1 Or JOBS and FDR dying?!1 (Running computations through my so-called brain: Nope, doesn't compute for me.)

Despite my not knowing exactly WHEN JOBS died, I also know where I was when it happened: Probably at home, pretty sure.

[hlthe2b]

1. He is such a dweeb... I just don't get the fascination with him.... n/t

[In_The_Wind]

2. I think it's just because he hangs with the cool crowd.

[onehandle]

3. I took this photo outside an Apple Store a couple of days after Steve Jobs died.

This happened all across the nation.

The collective essence of the notes was 'Thank you, Steve.'

[UTUSN]

4. Ah, but it was "a couple of days AFTER"!1 I stand my ground!1 n/t

[Chan790]

5. I can't.

25% odds that I was enjoying functional high-quality computing or computer gaming on an un-hip reasonably-priced PC.

You gotta respect the man was a f**king genius though, he got people to pay 150% as much for a vastly-inferior product with less options and less software by making it "cool."

I think I should try that...I'll make abacuses and market them with a campaign of "calculators are for dorks".

[pokerfan]

6. Perhaps he meant he remembers where he was *when he heard*

Is there a link to the interview?

[UTUSN]

8. Maybe there's a link at the GMA website. Whether it's when the dude died or when the Ashton heard

his shallowness is twofold, equalizing cultural events that are only somewhat in the same league, plus the time lapse of only a year or two?!1

Oh, well, now it's me making a molehill...

[OriginalGeek]

7. Have you guys seen the commercials for this movie?

Is it my imagination or is Kutcher so bad it's almost funny? The first couple times I saw the ad I thought it was a joke ad for a fake movie - the lines were ridiculous and he, despite being a pretty man, is a miserable actor. He can play the stoned teen-age doofus pretty well but watching those commercials all I could see was Kelso in a bad high school play about Steve Jobs.

I think this movie is either a giant "Pranked" skit or a candidate for worst performance by a male lead of all time.

And that's counting Kirk Cameron's god movies.

[UTUSN]

9. Thank you. This makes a larger point, what the engineering majors always griped about,

how ridiculously out of proportion were the fame and fortune of celebrities compared to what actual builders and shakers do.

Plus, it has probably always been like this, but in the last few years the p.r. hullabaloo over new movies turns out to be totally mismatched with later reviews. These monkeys parade around from one talk show to another, with the hosts raving about what a fantastic piece of work it is, then the thing actually debuts and the reviews are scathing. Johnny DEPP's Lone Ranger comes to mind, although a Lounger here said he/she really liked it.

Carol CHANNING called the publicity circuit, "peddling jams and jellies."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Yeah. It looked like an SNL skit. Like Belushi spoofing The Goodbye Girl.

[KamaAina]

11. So do I.

I was sitting on my duff right here in this very cubicle.

[Avalux]

12. He also said it was his idea to type a couple of letters and the word pops up.

He knew someone who worked at Apple and said he told him about it - how nice it would be to have the phone complete the word. Lo and behold, they did it! It was his idea!!1!

[proverbialwisdom]

13. Check it out.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/521042

Charlie Rose
Ashton Kutcher; Jeff Smisek

Season 21 Episode 244 (53:44)
Aired on 08/09/2013 Not Rated

Ashton Kutcher on his upcoming role as Steve Jobs in the film "Jobs."

[hunter]

14. Steve Jobs is dead!!! OMG!!!

Who was he?

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Apple computers were my first job in education, an Apple IIc lab, teaching kids and teachers how to use Appleworks.

But my heart already belonged to BSD.

Eventually BSD won Apple too.

I've mixed feelings about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Sometimes marketing and hype get in the way of progress.

I use Debian on an x86 machine. It's ugly, but not as ugly to me as Apple or Windows products.

Here's what the Apple home page looked like using old fashioned Mac software:



Yeah, I know where I was, even though I've never bought an Apple product from anywhere else but a thrift store.

[edbermac]

15. Movie is getting lousy reviews.

Saw this bit on Ebert's site:

And would that we had the option to leave our precious glowing doo-dads on just this once, if only to offer occasional distraction from what amounts to a glorified TV movie that is to "The Social Network" what "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" is to "Citizen Kane." Rather than attempting a deeper plunge behind the whys and wherefores of the elite business-model gospel according to Apple guru Steve Jobs and—more importantly—what it says about our culture, the filmmakers follow the easy rise-fall-rise-again blueprint familiar to anyone who has seen an episode of VH1's "Behind the Music."

[olddots]

16. the Wright brothers just got bumped from their claim to fame

history happens so fuck this crap with which computer is superior ----argue somewhere else