{"id":1100,"date":"2008-04-17T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/the-boss-is-hawking-stuff\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T19:45:09","slug":"the-boss-is-hawking-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/the-boss-is-hawking-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boss is hawking stuff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, it appears that Bruce <a href=\"http:\/\/jam.canoe.ca\/Music\/2008\/04\/16\/5306546-ap.html\">came out in favour of Barack Obama<\/a> on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucespringsteen.net\/news\/index.html\">website<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice, I personally think he&#8217;s the best choice for president myself.\u00c2\u00a0 Not Obama, Bruce of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t he just be totally cool as President?<\/p>\n<p>Then I see that maybe his credibility is not quite what it used to be, since here he is selling us on Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 doesn&#8217;t quite have the same zing.\u00c2\u00a0 I should mention that I can only assume that this is in fact a video of Bruce Springsteen, I can&#8217;t actually watch it since I&#8217;m at work and I should be working instead of writing this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.boingboing.net\/2008\/04\/16\/video-vista-sales-te.html\">Enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>***** Update<\/p>\n<p>Oh lordy, now that I have actually seen this video with my own eyes, my weak take on sarcasm above does not cover it.\u00c2\u00a0 This video is so bad I couldn&#8217;t watch more than 40 seconds.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe they made this.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes Microsoft look so uncontrollably bad, so much worse and uncool (if that was possible), just producing this video just sold at least 2 million more Macs.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh my god.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m ashamed to say that this stuff pays the bills for me&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, it appears that Bruce came out in favour of Barack Obama on his website.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice, I personally think he&#8217;s the best choice for president myself.\u00c2\u00a0 Not Obama, Bruce of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t he just be totally cool as President? Then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/the-boss-is-hawking-stuff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-news","category-video-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-hK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}