I really wish they'd had the balls and/or the legal power to keep calling it FruityLoops.
I mean, Henry VIII spun off the Anglican church so he could properly call it a biscuit.
No, he actually showed me the article later. It was remarkable because it never said what an API actually was, or even stated what the initials stood for. In my memory it seems like it was obviously written by AI, but it couldn't have been 16 years ago (as far as I know).
Still researching.
"OK, whose butthole do we use for the logo?"
I had a boss who read an article about APIs and then came to me and ordered me to start using them. I said I would research it and he went away and never mentioned it again. This was in 2010.
Caliper brakes? I'll bet that thing didn't even cost ten grand -- embarrassment to cycling.
Tom Cruise. Vampire. THE Ohio State University.
I'm squishing your head.
I woke up one night to my cat batting me in the face over and over again, something he never did. I was sleeping on the couch in the living room and when I put my feet down on the carpet they went squish. My cat liked to sleep in the bathroom sink, and on this night he managed to simultaneously push the drain closed and flip up the faucet lever. The sink had no overflow drain (I have no idea why not) so it just started flooding the whole house. I don't know how long this went on, but most of the first floor carpet was soaked and a bunch of water had gone into the basement through the floorboards and vents.
I was really impressed that Mr. Needy knew something was wrong and that he needed to wake me the fuck up to deal with it.
My favorite fucked-up thing from the past was the Macintosh circa 1990. The disk drive on this thing had no eject button -- to eject a disk, you just did the oh-so-fucking-intuitive thing of dragging the disk icon over the trash can icon. But they did very conveniently place the big knobby power button for the whole computer (which looked exactly like an eject button) right above the disk drive. I spent a year constantly powering off the computer every time I wanted to just eject the disk.
Corporations hire masses of people to create the illusion of growth. Then they fire masses of people to create the illusion of competence. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.