11 Replies to “Vast New Reserves [Dan Collins]”

1. Patrick Carroll says:

   January 7, 2008 at 7:17 pm

   Apropos nothing, I started pulling references to Bill out of “Microserfs”, and replacing them with “Obama”.

   Obama is wise.

   Obama is kind.

   Obama is benevolent.

   Obama, Be My Friend . . . Please!

   =====

   I had this weird feeling – of how the presence of Obama floats about the Campus, semi-visible, at all times, kind of like the dead grandfather in the Family Circus cartoons. Obama is a moral force, a spectral force, a force that shapes, a force that molds.

   =====

   I bet if Obama drove a Shriner’s go-cart to work, everybody else would, too.

   =====

   I am Obama’s machine

   I may be the largest machine that will ever be built.

   I may be the richest machine that will ever be built.

   I may be the most powerful machine that will ever be built.

   Raised with Cheerios and station wagons.

   =====

   “Ooh, Obama – please, please feed me another bite of hot, bubbly cheese cube,” Susan whispered in a little girl voice in the backseat.

   “I feel as though we’re in a witness relocation program,” said Todd. “You can leave Obama, but Obama will never leave you.”

   =====

   I wonder if Obama ever runs into John Scully or Steve Jobs at a 7 Eleven.

   =====

   Obama was in town launching a new product, and it was so bizarre, seeing his face and hearing his voice over the remote screens inside the convention floor. It was like being teleported back to eleventh grade chem class. Like a distant dream. Like a dream of a dream. And people were riveted to his every gesture. I mean riveted, looking at his picture, trying to articulate the charisma, and it was so odd, seeing all of these people, looking at Obama’s image, not listening to what he was saying but instead trying to figure out what was his . . . secret.

   But his secret is, I think, that he shows nothing. A poker face doesn’t mean showing coolness like James Bond. It means expressing nothingess. This is maybe the core of the nerd dream: the core of power and money that lies at the center of the storm of technology, that doesn’t have to express emotion or charisma, because emotion can’t be converted into lines of code.

   Yet.

   Not sure about that last bit, but I liked it in the original. And I am a programmer by trade…

2. Kirk says:

   January 7, 2008 at 7:23 pm

   It is an Obamaorama.

3. happyfeet says:

   January 7, 2008 at 7:32 pm

   You don’t have to go not even as far as Norway to find latent pro-Americanism but refreshing over and over again doesn’t help cause I’ve tried that.

4. Patrick Carroll says:

   January 7, 2008 at 7:44 pm

   If you were physically to place Obama next to Huckabee in a debate format, the comparison wouldn’t be flattering to Huck, I’m afraid.

   Sod! Now I can’t shake that mental image of Dukakis in a Tank. Or Kerry in a blue condom.

5. McGehee says:

   January 7, 2008 at 7:45 pm

   Huckobamapalozza!

6. McGehee says:

   January 7, 2008 at 7:46 pm

   Or “-palooza,” if you want to be persnickety.

7. SarahW says:

   January 7, 2008 at 7:59 pm

   Norway – more like snoreway.

8. Patrick Carroll says:

   January 7, 2008 at 8:32 pm

   A moose once bit my sister. Heh.

9. Sean M. says:

   January 8, 2008 at 2:37 am

   I leave you to your…moosey fate!

10. Swen Swenson says:

    January 8, 2008 at 5:47 am

    Silly gooses!
    In Norge they’re not mooses,
    Anything of that ilk is an “elk”,
    So There!

    Oh, wait.. “The Moose” was played by Ralph, the Wonder Llama? Well, nevermindthen.

    And if you did place Obama next to Huckabee the contrast would be remarkable. Obama oozes sincerity, Huck just oozes..

11. Karl says:

    January 8, 2008 at 11:57 am

    “Not that that ought to be a major consideration.”

    But it is. Ask Nixon circa 1960. Ask Al Gore’s bald spot.

Comments are closed.