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.
On item two: I’m guessing Mrs. Ragged had a gun to your head as you typed that, right? Or did she just pat it in the holster to remind you as you sat down at the computer?
On the following item, I think they should be required to remove two faces from that mountain and replace them with one of Reagan and a TBD space.
Or is the artistic vision of Rushmore supposed to be “a study in contrasts” with two of our best presidents and two of the worst?
Even if that’s the case, it still needs updating.
I’ll give you a cookie if you can guess which two I would remove.
Okay, I’ll bite….
Jefferson and Lincoln.
Personally, I’m affronted that Rutherford B. Hayes didn’t make the hill. Of all the Presidents, he had the coolest name.
Oops. And actually, no, she didn’t. I’ve been 100% absolutely loyal for 28 years just cause.