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Post number 9563

brian — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:33:39 -0800

Cleanup on Stage 1 (1.5 MB MPEG) Somebody get Steve Ballmer a towell. Has all the legal pressure pushed him to the edge? Scary.

By: jif

jif — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:47:17 -0800

and to think people like this help manage the companies that create products we use everyday . . .

By: moz

moz — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:57:23 -0800

it's creepy, i will say. you know the urban legend that microsoft had young geniuses educated at the company, so that they would already be employed -- stuff like the link in this thread makes me think microsoft could do something like that myth.

By: suprfli

suprfli — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:20:40 -0800

what is scarier? this mpeg of ballmer sweating profusely and saying developers over and over until he sounds like he's about to break down or the mpeg that was going around of him running out on stage acting like a monkey on crack for 3 minutes? i'd have to go w/him jumping around like a monkey b/c it looked sooo contrived i felt bad for him.

By: ericdano

ericdano — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:23:26 -0800

Very very creepy. I feel brainwashed now.....

By: gleemax

gleemax — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:40:28 -0800

For extra fun, pause it on the last frame.

By: Fofer

Fofer — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:46:01 -0800

moz, it's not an urban legend, it's a hoax!

By: skallas

skallas — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:50:02 -0800

I think this is properly called the Promise Keepers Phenomenon. Soon Ballmer will be selling out stadiums full of geeks buying $20 t-shirts and promising to develop for only XP from now on.

By: brian

brian — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:54:57 -0800

Yeah on that last frame all he is missing is the knife...well and the glove.

By: fraying

fraying — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:59:12 -0800

I first saw this on filepile. Anybody know where it came from / who shot it / what the heck is going on in it?

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 00:01:26 -0800

HE'S ALIVE!!!!!!

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 00:10:17 -0800

A better one....

By: nims

nims — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:40:08 -0800

this one (huge mpeg) is very good too and is probably the beginning of Balmer's speech. Hilarious.

By: crasspastor

crasspastor — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:51:31 -0800

During MeFi's break I logged some of my bemusement on my personal blog, including some screen captures of my favorite Ballmer facial expressions and ballet moves. Even if I worked there I would still be sickened by this. Looking across the brief images of the audience, I think we can now safely define what it is for one to be a "tool". Which all reminds me of an email I got from a MSFT employed friend of mine (truebeliever), during last month's O'Reilly conference. It was an "interdepartment forward" or something like that, and he was wondering what I thought of it (the debate). It reads: From: ********* Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:10 PM To: Competitive Platform Developer Advocacy; Linux Competitive Discussion Subject: Redhat's guy debating Mundie today The video of Red Hat's guy trying to debate Mundie is pretty wacky; in my opinion he makes the mistake of arguing based on emotion and comes across looking extremist rather than rational. http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_stream.html?stream_id=589 -- Swear to god, the above is real. . .

By: perplexed

perplexed — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 03:09:08 -0800

Derek, DisInfo has some ideas. [link snatched from hotanimach on the FiPi thread]

By: roboto

roboto — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 03:16:32 -0800

that's some third wave type shit check out this article at disinformation which claims microsoft purposefully leaked the video!

By: roboto

roboto — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 03:19:21 -0800

oops FilePile rules!

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 03:22:52 -0800

Okay, now that you've all seen the video, I'd like to try a little experiment. Clear your mind, now....as soon as you read this....Imagine Steve's "Orgasm Face".... Muhuhuhahaha.....Enjoy your cornflakes.

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:30:04 -0800

developers?

By: crasspastor

crasspastor — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:33:37 -0800

I see Mormons!

By: briggsb

briggsb — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:55:59 -0800

Here's a slightly edited version of the dancemonkeyboy video in various formats. Godwin's Law Remix (yes that's my own site, sorry)

By: briank

briank — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 05:55:13 -0800

Can there be no escape from this clip? Is there anybody on the web who hasn't linked to this yet? This is sooooo July....I thought MeFi was supposed to be on the cutting edge of meme genesis.

By: Dagobert

Dagobert — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:52:26 -0800

Cutting edge? MeFi has been having people make snarky remarks forever and that sure as hell ain't cutting edge.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 07:22:36 -0800

Balmer is just on a new fitness program... keeping that heart rate up as long as possibe.... I can see him looking at these videos with bill in his offce, "oh geeze bill, i look pretty goofy" both laguh, bill "yeah, but look at ... [insert whitty comment here, I can't think of one]"

By: jasonspaceman

jasonspaceman — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:33:25 -0800

too bad chris farley isn'y around anymore

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:17:40 -0800

Judging by my server logs, the Net seemed to like this picture of Ballmer demonstrating Microsoft's "Embrace and Extend policy".

By: PeteyStock

PeteyStock — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:32:30 -0800

I see Mormons! Heh...I was gonna say Scientologists.

By: Dirjy

Dirjy — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:37:25 -0800

too bad chris farley isn'y around anymore Oh, but he is!

By: {savg*pncl}

{savg*pncl} — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:43:31 -0800

I'll be mumbling developers, developers, all night long now. Funniest stuff I've seen in quite awhile. Reminds me of some of the bozos I used to work with at a major financial institution.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:10:31 -0800

Apparently the sweat is a non-stop thing with Ballmer these days. Something to do with the DOJ...