December 2009
Flagstaff, AZ. http://twitpic.com/vnkr0
Editing the Macworld Pundit Showdown. Really, really funny.
Am I excited about the prospect of a larger touch device from Apple? You betcha. Once I see the specs and price I’ll decide if I want it.
Just added the Apple iSlate, Microsoft Courier, Montgomery Scott’s Matter Transporter, and the TARDIS to my want list on techunicorns.com
Just added the Personal JetPack (thanks @trishm) and the Mattel Hoverboard (thanks @benblack1234) to my want list on TechUnicorns.com
Handwriting: a dying art, and good riddance. http://instapaper.com/zu0kman8
RT @Pogue: A guy tries to light a bomb in last hour of a flight.. so the TSA now forbids having anything on your lap the last hour! Brai …
RT @Pogue: Also… how is making us stay in our seats the last hour going to stop the terrorists from lighting the bomb stuff taped to t …
RT @ejacqui: I can tolerate a lot of bullshit from airlines, but no electronics/books/ANYTHING in last hour of flight? Just fucking shoo …
RT @clint: I am pretty much never going to fly again; Obama, please stop this insanity!
RT @davidfrum: New security regs: perpetual monument to old terrorist attempts.
RT @fraserspeirs: Wow. 2010 just got a lot cheaper without transatlantic flights to WWDC and C4. Thanks for that, TSA!
RT @jamesthomson: If the US does ban electronics on international flights, WWDC is going to be very quiet indeed.
RT @funkatron: terrorism win: making the nation afraid of people taking a leak on a plane /via @wezfurlong
RT @jeffcarlson: Because terrorists wouldn’t think to detonate something 61 minutes before a flight lands. Effing security theater.
RT @dmoren: Look, if I can’t get out of my seat during the last hour of the flight, how am I supposed to tackle the pope?
RT @clint: I also love easy my country makes it for a two-bit retard chump with some fireworks to help destroy an entire sector of our e …
psst… that Marvel Encyclopedia I “gave to my kids”? http://tinyurl.com/yflyjls …it’s really for me. :-)
Cinnamon rolls have met their fate. http://twitpic.com/v5zqm
The cinnamon rolls were nestled all snug in their dish, to await the morning and a date with the oven. http://twitpic.com/v3pc9
Time to make the cinnamon rolls.
I’ll say this: If Apple did settle on the name of their tablet product in 2007 and stuck with it, and it didn’t leak, I am really impressed.
MacRumors: Apple bought iSlate.com http://bit.ly/6DfNXn — two years ago. Chances they settled on a name two years in advance?
Turns out @gedeon and I think alike - we both think iBook would be a swell name for a future Apple tablet.
Good news: Santa has the Apple tablet. Bad news: You’ve all been naughty. #imaginaryproducts #imaginarygiftgivers
Christmas Eve in Arizona. Sunny and 65.
Christmas Recipe Watch: Tonight/tomorrow I’ll be making Alton Brown’s overnight cinnamon rolls: http://j.mp/5OsCe9 - Really good.
Merry Christmas everyone. http://twitpic.com/v0i03
In other “ways Google isn’t as good as it used to be” news, my Google News Alerts for my name used to be useful, but are now useless.
I don’t dispute the tablet might be awesome, but it doesn’t exist. Is Apple’s success in other areas suddenly “tablet momentum?” #unicorns
By the way, I’m not saying there won’t be a tablet. I’m saying nobody knows anything about it. It’s whatever you want it to be. Not real.
In 30 minutes Cal has transformed magically from the team that beat Stanford into the team that got beaten to a pulp by Washington.
Financial Times says Apple event coming on January 26th: http://bit.ly/54kiW4 - Note, it’s the entertainment-product venue.
Just got an e-mail blaming us for not making an app a Staff Pick on Apple.com (!) and threatening to “denounce this scandal world-wide.”
RT @mat From now on I’ll think of it as the minutemen tablet (“punk is whatever we made it to be”)
Trust me, if we controlled Staff Picks on Apple.com, I’d be driving a much nicer car than a 1994 Honda Civic stick-shift.
Cal looking terrible. This is their year in a nutshell: promising start, but in the end pretty ugly.
My position on Santa Claus is that of Maureen O’Hara in “Miracle on 34th Street.” This movie is fundamentally against me. But great. #fb
Brought a Roku Player with me. So tiny. Plugged in to TV, attached to wi-fi, instant entertainment! Pandora Christmas music now.
Kicking back on the gigantic ski condo. http://twitpic.com/ufqkh
At Snow Summit, in a condo bigger than my house! /via @laurengsnell
RT @injuryexpert: There is nothing — NOTHING — more essential to my work than a program called Yojimbo. If you’re a writer, you have t …
Really enjoying those Phantom Menace critique videos narrated by Dr. Zoidberg.
Landed in Irvine. By which I mean, arrived after driving for 8 hours.
Another Macworld Pundit Showdown in the can. Look for it between Christmas and New Year’s…
No, I am not @themacalope. You think I have that kind of spare time?
And to think I considered not playing Manning, @rlepage
The new font on the Jaguars uniforms is awful.
I found a real Starbucks today amid fake ones on Google, then clicked Street View - and a completely different location came up. Boo.
Really nice GQ interview with creative teams of Star Trek, Lost, and Fringe: http://bit.ly/6lhTmU