A Pilgrim’s Digression

The New York Times has an article today speculating that Microsoft is girding itself for war with Google and Yahoo. Judging from the picture of Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer attached to the article, I would guess he is the cave troll the company is going to use to batter down the gates of the Google citadel. I’ve never seen a picture of the man in which he looked even half-way human-like.

And yet, although people have long noted the general creepiness of the man [see the Ballmer Monkey Dance video], no one as yet has remarked upon his resemblance to the Frankenstein monster in Young Frankenstein.

The resemblance to Peter Boyle is uncanny. Here are some shots for comparison.

By the way, in that last shot of Ballmer, I think he must be praying that Longhorn actually meets its next proposed release date.