Steve Ballmer Diss'ed | The Coffeehouse

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

I transcribed a scheduled Wired interview with Hiroshi Yamauchi (former CEO of Nintendo) here. It went over a MS attempt to buy a controlling (?) share of Nintendo. Steve Ballmer met with the old man. My favorite passage:

I stood on my chair and put my hands around my mouth to amplify my voice, see, and said, in English, slowly and forming the words very carefully -- HEY, BALLMER, WHY DON'T YOU SUCK MY TINY YELLOW BALLS?

It's the funniest thing I've read in a while.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

I am trying to check this out with a few people at Wired Magazine. This certainly doesn't sound like the kind of interview a CEO of a multi-national corporation would give.

I also have some concerns that this posting is breaking copyright law. I'll leave it up for now, but I am VERY SKEPTICAL about the accuracy of this posting and certainly am worried that Wired Magazine's copyrights are being infringed upon here.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

I just heard back from Chris Anderson at Wired Magazine. He says this is a parody. Not true at all. He says Wired Magazine, therefore, doesn't own a copyright on this piece.

I'll leave it up. I thought it was pretty funny too. Albeit not truthful.

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

scobleizer wrote:
I am trying to check this out with a few people at Wired Magazine. This certainly doesn't sound like the kind of interview a CEO of a multi-national corporation would give.

I tried to double check also (that is I Googled). The interview seems to fit the CEO's M.O. I couldn't verify whether it's legit, but hey, how much trouble can I create with a single blog, eh? Wink

scobleizer wrote:
I also have some concerns that this posting is breaking copyright law.

Yes, me, too. I don't know how long it'd take before I'm asked to take it down. My only defense is I wasn't the first.

eagle

Steve is from Detroit and he was an equipment manager for the Harvard Football team, if this had happened he certainly would have had a comeback line.