December 30th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Ye fucking gods. I usually avoid the fetid dribblings of Robert Scoble like the black fucking plague; but just now I ran across a post from my pal Chuq that drove me to venture into the belly of the douche. To quote Scoble’s update on FriendFeed: I’m in Palo Alto. Just had yogurt at shop that Steve Jobs eats at frequently. They said he was in a couple of days ago and is in great health. Yes you read that right. The frigtard king spent the time and effort to post that a frogurt shack employee is reassuring us that our Dark Lord Steve Jobs is doin’ just fine. I seriously, and with no hyperbole whatsoever, do not have the words to explain the utter idiocy of this. I mean, where do I begin? The sense of utter self importance? Scoble’s desperate need to associate himself with celebrity? The insane desire to comment on every gods damned Apple rumor ever? FROGURT!?! I’m fully convinced that these depraved lunatics won’t stop until they end up riffling through Steve’s garbage; or stealing Jobsian stool samples for “analysis.”
December 30th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk 
If, heavens forbid, Steve Jobs is actually sick; I hope that he last long enough into the Obama administration so that a newly empowered SEC can do a thorough investigation into so-called “journalists” like the fuck-monkeys at Gizmodo. I’d be very interested in seeing an analysis of their purchases of Apple stock compared with their bullshit hatchet job stories.
December 19th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk In my last post about the MacMac reaction to Apple’s announcement of their strategic withdrawal from Macworld Expo I focused on the self-indulgent sense of entitlement present in the bulk of the complaints. As I’ve ruminated more on the subject, and after reading some very well reasoned thoughts on the subject (my main man John Welch puts it all in perspective here), I’ve decided that there’s another aspect to all of this that bears examination. One constant theme to be found in the complaints is that Apple is somehow “abandoning” the community that built them up. As others have pointed out, Apple has never given a shit about any “community.” Hell, why should they when the single greatest factor in Apple’s massive turn-around has been explicitly ignoring the “community” and pandering to the wider consumer electronics market? The simple truth is that Apple could lose all future sales from those that supported them in the lean years (and, in case anyone has any doubts I am one of that number) and they’d still make money hand over fist. But, as I wrote above, that’s not what I want to focus on here. What I want to
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December 18th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk As you may have heard; Apple recently announced that a) Steve Jobs will not be delivering the keynote address at the next Macworld Expo, and b) the next Expo will be the last that Apple attends. The response from the Mac blogosphere has ranged from the retarded (OMGWTF Steve’s agonna die!!!) to the rational (attending the Expo is expensive and Apple now has other options to present new products that are more under their control). But, of course, it wouldn’t be an Apple story without a heaping helping of whiny self-entitlement. Case in point http://silentkeynote.com. Apparently Apple owes us a keynote and we’re going to hold our breath and stamp our feet until we get one.
December 10th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk For the love of sweet baby Zoroaster, what is it with the tech media and their never ending propensity to conflate the voices in their heads with reality? Case in point, here’s a blog post from Daniel Ionescu of PC World that I picked up via MacWorld. The gist of the post is simple: netbooks outsold iPhones for one quarter, therefore it’s time to announce that the time of the netbook has arrived. Of course, there is the usual leap of faith assertion that this development may also mean that Apple is on the verge of producing a netbook of their own. Where to begin with this? First, how about the fact that the overlap between the netbook market and the iPhone market is so miniscule that it heavily approximates the probability of Angelina Jolie walking into my office in the next hour and offering me sex. An iPhone is not a netbook; and, while an iPhone may be able to do many of the tasks that a netbook does, I don’t know of any netbooks that fit in my pocket. Besides, you look awfully retarded holding a netbook up to your head and calling mom. Second, I
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December 3rd, 2008, by The Angry Drunk
I miss the good old days when, if you found a “suspicious” white powder in a police car you just assumed it was some blow “liberated” from the evidence room. link
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