A man sees what he wants to see...
..and disregards the rest.
Paul Simon knew.
Today, reading the SMH, I came across the headline "Slice of silicon valley as social media moves in". I had not started reading the article when my gaze was snared by an insert positioned in the centre of the piece which said "Business Day: Fears of Geek debt default. Page 1."
Well, it actually said "Greek", but I didn't realise that for a few seconds...
Paul Simon knew.
Today, reading the SMH, I came across the headline "Slice of silicon valley as social media moves in". I had not started reading the article when my gaze was snared by an insert positioned in the centre of the piece which said "Business Day: Fears of Geek debt default. Page 1."
Well, it actually said "Greek", but I didn't realise that for a few seconds...
posted by The Editor at
3:49 PM
7 Comments:
Well, yes. I don't know whether geeks carry that much debt...
Bugger... Now I have to come up with another blog post. :-(
The national debt of Greece is about A$500 billion and rising. So you'd need the equivalent of 10 Bill Gates in geeks to pay it off.
Finding that many multi-billionaire geeks would be a snap. Persuading them to bail out Greece would be impossible.
No geeks bearing gifts?
Apparently Steve Jobs offered a beautiful iHorse, but Greek Finance Minister Achilles Agamemnon spurned it for some unaccountable reason :-)
Probably infected with trojans.
(Applause).
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