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Steve Jobs' Aquarium

“One of my favourite Steve Jobs stories was the time the engineers working on the iPod brought their finished prototype to him in his office. He said it was too big, they needed to make it smaller. They said it was as small as they could make it, it couldn’t be made any smaller. So he took the prototype over to his aquarium and dropped it in. The iPod sank to the bottom, and as it did, tiny little bubbles came out. ‘See those bubbles,’ he asked. ‘They’re air inside the iPod. Make it smaller.’

“Another story about Steve Jobs was when they brought the prototype for the iPad 2 to his office. The engineers told him it was faster than the first iPad. He took it over to his aquarium and dropped it in. ‘Look how slowly it sank,’ he told them. ‘Make it faster.’

“One time a newly hired intern had been sent out to get Steve a sandwich. When she brought it to him, he looked at it. ‘I thought I ordered the beef on rye,’ he asked. She told him it was indeed beef on rye. He took it over to his fish tank and dropped it in. ‘Does that look like beef on rye?’

“He was always dropping things in that fish tank. We couldn’t stop him. We told him he had to stop, he wouldn’t listen. It was full of stuff that shouldn’t be in an aquarium.

“The fish had all died years ago. One had been crushed under an early generation iMac. The others were all poisoned. He didn’t care.

“It got to the point where there was no room for anything in the fish tank. When we emptied it after he died, we found a body in there. We never found out who it was.”

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Hallowed Nights costumes have a strange effect on people

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Hi guys here’s my Julian fancam

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Everyone vote spirk also reblog to spread the word #SPIRKSWEEP

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I spent entirely too long on a joke that only one other person will get

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The night before Peanut's big show...

This took me way too long but I'm very happy with the results LOL I was working tirelessly at this for the past like week.

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Dot and Haley in slightly loopsy-fied uniforms

The thought process behind this drawing was, "What if I put two of my favorite Lalaloopsy characters into a uniform inspired by my favorite show..?"

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The night before Peanut's big show...

This took me way too long but I'm very happy with the results LOL I was working tirelessly at this for the past like week.

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The night before Peanut's big show...

This took me way too long but I'm very happy with the results LOL I was working tirelessly at this for the past like week.

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My OC Milo :) I love him

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This Pierrot girl drawing I did a couple of months ago

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Sir Battle Scarred and Prince

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When I was in my mom’s womb, I NEVER kicked in the utero.

Why?

I’d never kick a woman.

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GATTACA 1997 | dir. Andrew Niccol

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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE Julian Bashir

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I honestly think the best direction @staff can take right now is the one Firefox and DuckDuckGo took back in the day, which is to realize that they're the only major alternative to a bunch of really morally reprehensible options and actively try to become morally decent, then use that as marketing

Like if the messaging around tumblr was "We'll never have an algorithm. We'll never sell your data. We'll never be bought by Elon Musk" and then they actually followed through on it all, they could fill a very desperately needed niche in the market. Rebrand tumblr as the not-predatory social media site and people will actually have a reason to check it out other than nostalgia

I think the consensus of the userbase is moving towards "staff is actually doing a pretty good job now for effectively the first time in history" so I don't think it's too far-fetched that they could go in this direction. And now really is the perfect time to do it

@cyle

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Batman 2022