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Interior Apple Park glass is so clear, distracted employees are walking into it
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HomePod review roundup: Apple's smart speaker sounds incredible, but Siri is lacking
Philip Proctor, worked at Firesign TheatreBecause we've cut down all the trees…?The question came from a story a girlfriend told me. When a little tyke in Texas, she used to play with leprechauns in her backyard. She claims that one of them asked her this and then”"laughed and ran away.” It seemed like an unanswerable query and thus likely to confuse the Direct Readout Memory system (Dr. Memory) and thus crash the government computer that created the illusions in the Future Fair. Today we'd call it a “virus” and my character, the laid-off worker, Ah-Clem, a “hacker”…if you ask Siri that question she will sometimes respond, “"You can't shut me down that easily.” And if you say to her "This is worker speaking, hello.” She will respond, “Hello, Ah-Clem. What function can I perform for you. LOL”Thus is because Steve Jobs was a fan of the Firesign Theatre’s album “"I think we're all Bozos on this Bus”, which he revealed to me when I met him at the cast screening of a PIXAR movie for which I’d done voices…
