Yes, he was a regular on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Alum meaning Alumni of SNL. He is doing more movies these days.
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Apple Shares Humorous 'Backstage' Video Shown During WWDC Opening
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Yes, he was a regular on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Alum meaning Alumni of SNL. He is doing more movies these days.
I think they were pretty aware - there were several tongue in cheek references to innovation, like the one about the blur when selecting split screen apps (I think that's when it was).
It wasn't new APIs that impressed be, it was all the little interface tweaks, but nobody seems to share my enthusiasm! I was a little drunk, maybe it wasn't as good as I remember.
I love Hader but did not find this funny. Of course, leave it to the new apple to make a musical video that is over the top.
Yes, watch again. IME cats don't like being picked up that way (kittens yes, by their mothers). I would have had no problems if they each had had their own handler.
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'Mistreated' cats by holding them up that way? Get real!
If you're lighting cats tails on fire - okay - be up in arms over that.
But to go overboard with THIS!?!?! It just creates a mockery of the entire situation. To suggest it's the same as holding up 2 human babies this way? Wow.
When people equate the simplest small trivial things to something bigger, it makes many people completely disregard the issue, and is probably the OPPOSITE of what you want. Cry wolf when there is actually something to cry wolf over, not something trivial like this.
Yes, those 10% were meant to be the little things I referred to.
A lot of people are happy about those tweaks. Just as a lot of people just overlooked them and don't realize that they are even there or what they would really mean for them (and of course there are some that truly don't care about them and aren't that happy).
To kickoff its 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple shared a humorous "Backstage" video starring Saturday Night Live alum Bill Hader.
I noticed an error. You put the quotation marks around 'Backstage' rather than 'humorous'.
Does that really identify what's real or not these days? Sometimes it's clear, other times it's not that much. I'm not saying that's the case here, just saying that simply watching and making a call based on that doesn't always mean that's what it actually was.
I wasn't laughing at the cats being held that way - why would I laugh when someone does it to my pets?
The video was meant to show 'weird people' and odd behaviors - and the guy holding cats like that was a weird person holding the cats in an odd manner. I wouldn't consider it 'mishandling', only odd.
And I wouldn't consider it something 'cool' or 'funny' to do. Where did you come up with that?
And if those were HIS cats, he can do that. Just like I can put a halloween costume on my dog if I want. Both things are 'odd'. My dog probably hates wearing a halloween costume MORE than those cats like being held that way. So, am I 'mishandling my dog'?
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Oh really. Bet you they were stage cats rented for the occasion.
PS. I wouldn't handle my cats that way.
I wouldn't handle cats that way either.
My whole point is that this is not abuse, mistreatment or mishandling. Just odd.
If I saw someone doing that to their own cats, I would just think to myself 'what a weirdo'. If I saw someone lighting cats tails on fire, I would go up to them and intervene.
If I saw someone doing that to a cat _I_ owned, I would intervene. I don't want my cat being picked up that way. I would tell that someone 'don't touch my cats!'.
Then we disagree. Apple has aspired to a high standard for behaviour. I would hope in this area also.
Most often single quotes are called 'scare' quotes. Since the intent is, often, to tell the reader they should be afraid.
Please have a beer, a whisky shot, a wheatgrass juice, an herbal tea or something to chill. Look up surgeons that specialize entomorectalotomies while you are at it.