Jeff's Dad is a sweet dude
The image seen below comes from Triumph of the Nerds, an outdated documentary on the PC industry that goes up until sometime in the year 1995. Jeff's dad strikes an excited pose in this image, owing to the exciting new release of the IBM PC (!).
According to Jeff,
He was like "what the hell time is it" and then he was like "oh yeah, it's whatever time it is...[smile because computers are ill]"
According to Jeff's dad:
The exact date was Tuesday August 11, 1981 (that was the date that IBM announced the original IBM PC to the world -- IBM always announced on Tuesdays in those days -- so we were announcing to our staff that we could all now tell people about the IBM PC and that VisiCalc was on it). The place was our office in Cambridge, Mass. The picture is taken from a videotape we made of the staff meeting (we taped all our staff meetings, but this was a particularly momentous one).
The J Expose
I recently discovered, to my genuine amusement, that a group of impudent South Africans is publicly calling for my demise. At the site, I found the following, written beneath a picture taken from my site:
"This is a picture of a gerbil/hamster if you click on it, it leads to Josh Zana's site, who should be shot (Josh Zana, not the site....the site is not a person and should be deleted, not shot). It's possibly one of the worst sites on the net."
Now, truthfully, this new site of mine is a bit more spiffy than the old one, but I'm sure it wasn't one of the worst on the net. I would just like to state here that I am in fact capable of creating highly complex web pages in any of a number of scripting languages, including mySQL database access. As such, I think that these uppity blokes from South of the equator should themselves be shot. All of them. And their site too. There, I've said it. I will leave you, the loyal reader, with one more quote from these guys, this one a justification of the site's name:
"I am J, and in essence I am showing pictures, exposing as such."
Great Quotes
"I wish Microsoft would just hurry up and implant its
instructions directly into my brain so I could be happy. That's where
we're heading after all, might as well do it quick and
painless."
-Uri Okrent 7/29/04
"I would there were no age between sixteen and
three-and-twenty; for there is nothing the between but getting
wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting,
drinking."
-William Shakespeare
"I'm still trying to decide whether I'm undecided"
-Joe Fruchter, on the 2004 presidential election.