{"id":916,"date":"2009-02-01T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/02\/01\/it-was-25-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T17:16:57","slug":"it-was-25-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/02\/01\/it-was-25-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It was 25 years ago today &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. and it&#8217;s still the only Superbowl ad anyone remembers.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R706isyDrqI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R706isyDrqI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To this day, this inspired piece of anti-Big Brother propaganda convinces consumers that their PC maker of choice is a struggling start-up fighting the forces of evil, when in reality the company has $28bn in cash, 50% operating margins, a $100bn market capitalization and a presence in just about every country and seemingly on every Main Street on earth.  Heck, IBM is smaller than the eponymous fruit company now.<\/p>\n<p>You can fool all of the people all of the time and, no, I will emphatically <u>not<\/u> be watching the Superbowl with its hopped up, hyper-thyroid, cortisone injected &#8216;athletes&#8217; any more this year than I did 25 years ago.  I will, however, be watching the ads, as usual, to see how consumer trends can benefit investing strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. and it&#8217;s still the only Superbowl ad anyone remembers. To this day, this inspired piece of anti-Big Brother propaganda convinces consumers that their PC maker of choice is a struggling start-up fighting the forces of evil, when in reality the company has $28bn in cash, 50% operating margins, a $100bn market capitalization and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/02\/01\/it-was-25-years-ago-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It was 25 years ago today &#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}