Don Rickles is an old school comedian who made a name for himself back in the days when Johnny Carson and David Letterman were the late night TV hosts du jour. He was known as an insult comedian of the finest order, who’s also had a number of dramatic roles over his career, and although he’s getting up a bit in the years now, an appearance he made the other night on Jimmy Fallon shows that the man has certainly still got it. He has some great stuff for Fallon, and even has some good lines for QuestLove as well. Check it out below.
Month: August 2015
1st Apple Watch sales metrics start to accumulate
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For well over a decade now Apple has seemed to be able to do now wrong. Preceding even the iPod was the legendary series of colorful iMac computers which really put the company back on the map following Steve Jobs’ return after his previous ousting.
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Then, in 2001, began the reign of ‘i’ products, a reign which continues to this day as the iPhone continues to absorb an ever-increasing share of the smartphone market. The traditional iPod is actually now out of production, but other versions of the product like the Touch continue to be a solid revenue stream for the tech giant.
However, one of Apple’s most recent products may not be joining the legendary ranks of these products that became so successful and popular that they have quite literally changed the way we live our lives everyday. And that entry is the Apple Watch.
While Apple has released no official sales numbers on their watch as of this writing, their suppliers have been releasing data, and it’s not painting the prettiest of pictures for the success of the watch thus far.
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, a Taiwan-based company that packages and produces semiconductors for Apple products, has recently announced that they did not hit their break-even mark of 2 million units per month in the second quarter, and that it also did not expect to hit that mark during the holiday-laden third quarter, either.
In terms of what this means for Apple, there are a few theories. Perhaps wearable technology is still a year or two away from true market integration? Perhaps the functions of the device have not been made impactful enough? Would calling the device an ‘iWatch’ have helped with branding? Either way, the success of any one Apple product does not make or break the company. Not even close.
SO THIS IS A THING NOW: Robbie Maddison surfs massive wave on dirt bike
You read that headline correctly folks, a man has officially surfed (a truly massive) wave ON A DIRTBIKE. The sheer physics of riding a dirtbike across water are making us a bit uncomfortable at the moment, and the fact that this feat was accomplished at all definitely qualifies as stranger than fiction.
Indeed, legendary Motocrosser Robbie Maddison accomplished the seriously unbelievable recently in Tahiti, a globally renowned spot known best for their massively beautiful waves, which break perfectly to create some of the best surfing known to man.
Maddison, who first made a name for himself doing a backflip across the Tower Bridge in London, among other absurd stunts, has truly outdone himself this time. Two years of efforts led to the moment below, and if nothing else, it is mind blowing in a ‘what am I looking at’ type of way, perhaps more so than anything else we’ve seen recently. Check it out below.
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