June 29th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk Full disclosure: I have not read, and have no intention of reading Wired editor Chris Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price.” This is mainly because I think that Anderson is a deluded cybertopian freetard, and I have no intention of giving money to someone who is exhorting the rest of us to give our work away for free. I’ll read Chris’s tripe the very day he decides to post it online free of charge. Even though I don’t recommend reading Anderson’s babble, I do highly recommend reading Malcom Gladwell’s evisceration of Anderson’s “logic” in his review of the book in The New Yorker. Gladwell does an excellent job of exposing Anderson’s cybertopian fantasy for the garbage that it is. hat tip to Daring Fireball for the link – Update: I just found out that Anderson is releasing a free edition of Free. Fuck it, it’s still tripe.
June 29th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk 
Scoble returns to blogging. Hasn’t found a cure for logorrhea yet.
June 26th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
Jesus Cthulhu Christ on a crispy rye cracker! Who do I have to defenestrate to get a single gods damned plugin that can a) give me a Flickr pictures widget, b) allow me to add Flickr pictures to posts without using retarded WP “shortcodes,” and d) work properly with a lightbox plugin (again without having to manually edit every bloody <img> tag. Seriously, I have 5 fucking plugins installed to pull all that crap off. Web 2.0 my ass. More like Web Me
June 25th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk I write this post with a heavy heart. Have any of you ever been in the following situation? You know a guy. He’s a smart guy, and you agree with almost all of his opinions, but he’s done or said something so monumentally annoying that you just have to smack him around a bit for it. Well, I’ve just encountered the intertubes version of that. So, who’s the dipshit in question? I’m glad you asked. It’s “Cousin Avi” of Veritas Nihilum Vincet. Continue reading Today’s Round of Idiocy
June 25th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
I’m playing with some new toys to let you nerds spread the gospel of angry drunkeness. Go forth my minions.
June 20th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
June 18th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
Jeremy Horowitz is seriously in the running for the Michael Arrington Award for Excellence in Self Indulgent Yellow “Journalism.”
June 11th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
If you were looking here while I was updating to WordPress 2.8 and fixing the resulting mess, deal with it.
June 9th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk The 2009 Apple World Wide Developer Conference Keynote was yesterday and Apple announced quite a few things. Here’s a compilation of my thoughts on the announcements. Updated Notebooks The first substantive announcement was updates to the Macbook and Macbook Pro lineups. I don’t have the patience to detail all of the changes, but you can read up on them here. The gist of the updates are: The Unibody 17, 15, and 13 inch models now all fall under the MacBook Pro label. The polycarbonate 15-inch Macbook gains an official place in the lineup. The Macbook Air gets a price drop. Firewire 800 and a Secure Digital card slot are present on all Macbook Pros, regardless of size. And finally, ExpressCard remains only on the 17-inch Macbook Pro. Notably, although not surprisingly, missing from the announcement was the long dreamed for Apple netbook. To me, there are some interesting implications of yesterday’s notebook announcements. First, Apple has finally seen the problems inherent in maintaining a Macbook vs. Macbook Pro distinction arbitrarily based on screen size and port availability. Now it is clear that Unibody models (excepting the Air) are to be seen as “professional” machines and the polycarbonate model(s) are
Continue reading WWDC 2009 Keynote Announcement Comments
June 8th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
So yeah, nice update, but I think I’ll wait. Here’s the logic. Currently my AT&T account page shows that I’ll be eligible for a discounted upgrade from my iPhone 3G on December 23rd. I don’t see any reason why that policy would change. Next, Apple has now consistently upgraded the iPhone 1 year after the release of the previous model. I think I can wait six months to see what 2010’s iPhone model has to offer. Early prediction 64GB memory top end and the newly rolled out 4G network. Which may also mean independence from AT&T, not that Verizon is any better.
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