“When Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal read a news story that said Microsoft’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, had hurled a chair across the room on hearing an employee was going to work for rival Google, the scientist immediately made a connection with his own research: ‘When I see such behavior, I think of a chimpanzee,'” Shankar Vedantam reports for The Washington Post.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: So do we, Frans, so do we.
They don’t call him “Monkeyboy” for nothing:
Ballmer is also an excellent song and dance assemblage:
The Windows man: A resource hog indeed.
” I suggest that de Waal ask Ballmer and Gates to donate their brains to science.”
And soon.
“Young Frankenstein” (1974)
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won’t be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby Normal?
Igor: I’m almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
[shakes and grabs him]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE TELLING ME?
@twilightmoon@mac.com who said:
“Not to defend Balmer or anything, but the article suggests that we ALL have behavioral patterns linked to our genetic tree.”
Yeah, we ALL do, but no one reverts backwards better than M$’s own Moneyboy Ballmer. You can just picture his primitive distant relatives (feeling threatened by another ape) grabbing a half rotted log, and just tossing that thing across the jungle clearing.
MDN– keep the Ballmer and M$ bashing coming. It’s the comic relief of this sit that keeps me coming back. Along with the humor of the Mac Faithful here that has made me spit my coffee more than once.
Evolution is so 20th century. Honest scientists today realize that the theory of evolution falls apart under close examination. 43% of scientists feel evolution is flawed.
He’s very high functioning for a chimpanzee.
I’m very proud of him, really.
GregM: This is an advocate site. You want boring, straight Mac news, go to MacObserver. Meanwhile, please let us have our fun without your whining.
I didnt find this funny in the slightest… could you not think of anything better to do? o.O
Better add herr heim’s brain to the list too. It’d make a nice sample of 17th century man.
dogfriend:
(Proof of the Humanzee?)
hey macheads……
your comments about Balmer are tasteless and crude
s/he is back again – still willing to trade anything to be Balmer’s wife..??