Except for the usual crap, there isn’t much going on. So I thought I’d just lay back for another night

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One of the greatest tracks ever recorded.

Ever.

A few frigtards are out honking about market share again.

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There is more iPhone killer talk, but it’s more generalized. It’s all about how the iPhone was cool once and pretty soon it’s going to jump the shark.

It’s all bullshit.

There isn’t anything out there that even  compares on the same scale.

The iPhone is the shizzle, and that’s how things will be for a while.

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Next week I’ll be in Orlando. I’ll be blogging from downtown on my trusty MacBook. I hope there’s a cigar bar on my block.

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Shop ’til you stop….

Jas sent me the link to this video. I’ve never heard of K.T. Tunstall until now but, um, this chick knows how to rock a Jackson 5 cover.

Later…

Well, the echosphere today learned that Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking if The Master could score some magic mushrooms, some mescaline, and a few peyote buttons.

Within minutes the original story turned in to something completely bizarre.

Now that Master Jobst Fimil is alive and scheduled to be around for a few years, the financial/tech fuctards are pissing in their socks trying to find something upon which to build negative press. The stupid thing is that I saw the first mention of this over on the Huffington Post. The Huffington Post is less related to the technology industry than the Seattle Times is to the fish wrapping, and less useful overall.

The rest of the echospheroids should know better than to type this kind of crap.

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There is a post here that is very good if you have a real knack for seeing unsourced statistics used to build specious arguments.

Anton Shilov is the nom de plume of the typist. He lacks the ability to make a single new point, but he does mention that Apple has a niche market in computers, software, phones, and the like. He also says the iPod is a major seller (he noticed). He says in the article Macs are “rarely bought.”

Apparently, he doesn’t get out much or he’d know that twisted statistics can be rebutted with facts. If you use facts talking about computers you’re labeled an Apple Fanboi. If you resort to facts in political discussions you’re called “conservative.”

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The eighties weren’t all bad.

Robert X. Cringely apparently is still allowed to use the innertubes. It sure wouldn’t happen if I was in charge, I can tell you that.

Anyhow, Cringely got access to a connected keyboard in late June and emitted THIS. Apparently he’s been eating more fiber than usual. He isn’t accustomed to it.

I mean the post in the above link is so unbelievably unconnected to any reasonable version of reality, it defies rebuttal.

Bob. Listen. Trust me. I love you like a brother. Get a frigging clue.

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She capped his ass. Two rounds to the head; two rounds to the abdomen. Then she blew her own brains out. Gentlemen, screwing around on your wife isn’t just immoral and stupid. It’s dangerous. Don’t do it.

I frankly don’t know how anybody manages more than one romantic relationship at a time anyway. I’m doing well to successfully manage one. Now I’ve been managing one relationship for twenty-eight years, so I think I know something about it. But two? Or even three? Forget about it.

I’m pretty sure that if a multimillionaire retired football player can’t manage it, I shouldn’t even try.

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Greenpeace members may have been behind the defacement of Mt. Rushmore. My sentence would be a 5000 word essay on each face in the mountain, and then 5 years maintaining the site. That’s right. 260 consecutive weeks picking George’s nose.

Bastards.

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I’ve read a couple of places that Google is going to introduce an operating system. In other places, it is being recommended that Eric Schmidt should recuse himself or be dismissed from Apple’s board.

Why?

Google is STILL not an Apple competitor. Android competes with iPhone only if you consider the OS of iPhone as a disembodied hand. Chrome competes with Safari if you think of Safari as analogous to a third-party app. Google doesn’t build any hardware.

Competition with Apple requires spherical integration. That is, a vertically integrated axis with integrated spokes. Microsoft, Dell, and HP aren’t in the game. Google isn’t even close.

Apple is the axis upon which all hardware is becoming dependent.

You think maybe I’m wrong. Yet you buy and store all your music and much of your video with iTunes.

Something like this…..

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One of teh great videos from the golden age of videos.

Truly, this post on C|Net ZDNet (I can never tell the difference) is the dumbest thing I’ve read in months. HERE is the link.

First they take excerpts from a rotten article in the Harvard Business Review. In context the whole article is absurd. Out of context in the hands of Apple-hating flame baiters, it’s frigging surreal.

The essence of the original shit-spew is that Steve Jobs management techniques are all wrong.

The essence of the ZDNet dungfest is to build on the initial out-of-context quotes with their own flame-baiting neophye typist to create the propped-up-on-their-back-legs jizz-jumping honk that Steve Jobs may be hurting Apple and/or the tech industry with his failed management style.

The title of the article is, “Are Steve Jobs’ management skills a corporate risk?”

Yes, dumbasses, there is a terrible risk. The possibility exists that in another twelve years Apple will have SIXTY billion dollars in the bank, since that would double what the stupid loser has done in his first 12 years back at Apple.

If you really want to understand the article, you have to see the picture of the actual typist at the bottom of the page. Look closely. He looks like Pinto from Animal House. Okay, he has a four-day beard in hopes of avoiding that comparison. Dork.

The article appears under the main header of Larry Dignan, Daryl Diaz, and Darrell Steinert-Threlkeld. Listen, Larry, Daryl, and Darrell: The only measure of a corporate manager that means diddle-dee-squat is, “Profitability.” Nobody who buys stocks gives a fat damn about any of that other touchy-feely crap.

By the only measurement that means anything Steve Jobs is an excellent manager.

All the rest of your noise is flame bait.

Unless you’re all idiots.

That sums up the entire list of possible choices.

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When we was fab…..