{"id":183858,"date":"2012-10-31T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/31\/now-i-know-how-hp-employees-felt-when-fiorina-was-fired\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T02:11:00","slug":"now-i-know-how-hp-employees-felt-when-fiorina-was-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/31\/now-i-know-how-hp-employees-felt-when-fiorina-was-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I Know How HP Employees Felt When Fiorina was Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/alyssa\/2012\/10\/30\/1113191\/disney-star-wars-episode-vii\/\">George Lucas has sold LucasFilm and the Star Wars Franchise<\/a>, meaning that he will no longer be able f%$# it up.  (Ewoks, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special\">Star Wars Holiday Special<\/a>, Jar Jar Binks, and midi-chlorians, anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I also feel how HP employees felt when Meg F%$#ing Whitman was hired as CEO:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wSe5h.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the rare bit of news that could blow Hurricane Sandy off the map, <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Disney<\/span><\/b><\/span> announced today that it had purchased Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion\u2014and announced that the company will debut Star War Episode VII in 2015. \u201cIt\u2019s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers,\u201d George Lucas said in the official announcement of the transaction, in what is a substantial understatement, given the creative quality of the prequels. \u201cI\u2019ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Disney?&nbsp; The f%$#ing mouse?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/4520\/15qdr938609019.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/>He f%$#ing sold f%$#ing Star Wars to the f%$#ing mouse?<\/p>\n<p>Grrr\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because George Lucas has sold LucasFilm and the Star Wars Franchise, meaning that he will no longer be able f%$# it up. (Ewoks, and the Star Wars Holiday Special, Jar Jar Binks, and midi-chlorians, anyone?) Unfortunately, I also feel how HP employees felt when Meg F%$#ing Whitman was hired as CEO: In the rare bit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1005,993,1064,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-business","category-cinema","category-media","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}