“Yeah, you read that headline right. Apple couldn’t pay for better press than this,” Michael Arrington reports for TechCrunch.
“Viewers of the Charlie Rose show tonight were stunned to see the normally composed Rose looking like he’d just been in a bar fight. He has a very bad black eye and a bandage over part of his forehead. I contacted the show’s producers to hear what happened. Earlier today, they said, Rose tripped in a pothole while walking on 59th Street in Manhattan. He was carrying a newly purchased MacBook Air and made a quick (but ultimately flawed) decision while falling: sacrifice the face, protect the computer,” Arrington reports.
“Luckily the MacBook Air survived the fall,” Arrington reports.
Full article with additional, larger images here.
“And, uh, it looks like you’re on a roll.”
that explains the butter on my butt…
yeah, c!, that was Dan the Man in the men’s room, or something.
Gotta watch those leg movements in the stalls, it pisses some guys off.
Hentercenter
I’ve been away most of the past month. Had a lot of catching up to do.
Cheekygit
I was going for 10 in 10 minutes. Looks like I’m getting old
@ TT
wanta go camping
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One would assume that “newly purchased” MacBook Air was either in its original box or in a laptop bag. Either would have protected his new Air. Additionally, the Buyers Protection offered by premium credit cards would have covered him. But all that is a lot to mull over as you and your Precious are about to hit the pavement.
TowerTone
‘s alright. i have missed reading your views on everything here. I like reading your’s and Chrissy’s and Ampar’s thoughts. You guys have more sense here than anyone else…
that was supposed to be “Air to his misfortune”.
Dammit!
He probably had it out, and was tossing it around , hand to hand, showing off how light it is
Thanks, Hentercenter
No thanks, HotinPlaya
Charlie Rose face plants to save his Apple MacBook Air.
Would it read better as, ‘Charlie Rose plants face to save his Apple MacBook Air’?
@TT– Good run… not only quantity, but quality as well!
@Charlie Rose — I may now have to watch your show once or twice out of sympathy, gratitude, or some such misplaced sentiment.
Thats awesome. If I had a DELL, HP, Gateway… or specially a Zune, they land first. In fact, I’ll use it somehow to shield me from the pavement.
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A sad adios to A.C.C.
You have met your Childhoods End,
and will be missed immensely.
Video of his comment about his eye….
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3463405046105395746#4m35s
@Jubei
Don’t use the Zune! That brick will hurt the pavement! You might create another pot hole!
Sign of a slow brain, but not a mid-western brain.
First instinct: hand in front of face.
Second: I just spent $2000+ on this
Third (not connected): is my face worth more than $2000?
Answers on a postcard
No offense, all in jest, except the middle bit.
I think Bill Gates threw the Zune at Charlie and he is no longer a dear friend.
Walking down Manhattan streets with a (presumably) bare MacBook Air??? That’s asking for trouble…
To Hentercenter:
I refuse to comment on this.
“One would assume that “newly purchased” MacBook Air was either in its original box or in a laptop bag. Either would have protected his new Air.”
Which makes his action stupid. Which just strengthens the commonly held belief that Mac users are retards. This is good advertising how?
Many years ago, a friend who was into Judo convinced a group of us to give it a try. We all went down to the dojo and practiced osoto-gari for an hour. I never took another judo lesson but I have also never taken another uncontrolled fall. Clearly, Charlie needs an hour or so of judo training.
As far as protecting the MBA for financial considerations, I doubt it. Charlie Rose makes so much money that he could buy a MBA with the money he earns in the time it takes him to fart. I think he protected the MBA out of his appreciation for beauty and style.
I’m a regular viewer of the Charlie Rose Show on PBS and saw him last night. He did NOT offer any explanation of why he looked like that.
He very professionally conducted an in-depth interview with Robin Wright of the Washington Post about her new book on Iran as if nothing was wrong. Since he did, she did too.
Never would’ve guessed that a MacBook Air was to blame. Never would’ve guessed that he was the technophile that he is. With an iPhone, why does he still need the other two? Come on, Charlie! Make the leap!
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
P.S. Que up Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust”.
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Been there, done that…
Christmas Eve morning 1996 walking across snow covered ice parking lot with a laptop in one hand, hard drive in a case in the other… Hit a slick patch and had about 1/10th of a second to realize I was going down and I had enough time to lift up the bags I was carrying. I neglected to get my left knee out from under me and I tore it up pretty bad. But no damage to my PowerBook or HD.
The sacrifices we all make.
Now of course, if it had been a Windows machine, I’d of said “Let it crash!”!
— Hano
To Ampar
Oh great, so am I supposed to wait for MDN to find a decent article?
Who knows when that’ll be though??
Interesting picture at the bottom — don’t they misidentify a Treo as a Blackberry?