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doesn't mean

I'm stupid, Tom.

Hold on!

Is there anything I can do?

It's all done.

I'll open the wine.

There's wine

open already.

This is a great bottle. You'll like it.

It's a Batard-Montrachet

Grand Cru, 1998.

Am I supposed

to be impressed?

It's really

good, Dad.

Perhaps you could save

it for a special occasion.

And so they asked me to speak at e

- Symposium which is

quite an honor because it's

considered the most important

North American conference

on new technology.

What do you actually do, Tom?

Excuse me?

You, Landshark,

what do you do?

David!

I'm serious. I was there last Friday.

Where was I?

How would I know

where was I?

I dropped something

off for Joshua and...

you know what I saw?

You know what I saw?

Oreos. You know me,

Tom, I see it, I say it.

What I saw was a whole bunch of kids,

bright young kids, they're

all just sitting around.

When they got

tired of sitting,

which was more

often than not,

they'd get up, go to the

kitchen and eat some Oreos.

Then they'd go back to their

desk, a cute little desk from Ikea.

Am I correct? And they'd play

solitaire on their computers.

Now you correct

me if I'm wrong.

It's a long day,

I give you that.

Ten in the morning

till ten at night,

seven days

a week, but...

why the hell would somebody

give you a million dollars

just to watch you sit

around and eat some Oreos?

Dad, add some zeroes.

Add two zeroes and that's

what we're talking about.

Just because you take your

failure and call it success

doesn't mean you can take my

success and call it failure.

Tom!

I'm not finished yet.

Tom, I do not Like

where this is going!

I was saying something

and I wasn't finished.

Do you want to hear

what I have to say?

Do you want to f***ing

hear what I have to say?

He just does

not get it!

What did you want? You

wanted to change the world!

Stop the war! Poetry must

be made by all! Right?

I've seen

the bookshelves!

I grew up with them! Cinderblocks

and five copies of Soul oNice.

You wanted to change the world,

and what did you settle for? Tenure?

You wanted to

change the world?

Well, we're changing it. Tiananmen

Square? That was the fax machine.

Think what we'll have

now that we have the Web.

Your guy,

what's his name?

The guy you did

the seminar on?

McLuhan? Global

Village, right?

Well, we're out there

making it every day

while you puff up, all smug

and proud and self-satisfied!

And then it's like go tell the

maid to go dust the Goddard posters.

I'm leaving now.

No Mom,

I'm leaving.

Hi.

Hi.

You look, um,

vaguely familiar,

have we met before?

I don't think so.

Don't, Tom.

I've gotta work.

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