Drink With the Bastards

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I men­tioned before that the Angry Mac Bastards would be per­form­ing live at Macworld | iWorld again this year (details here). In addi­tion I’m happy to announce the inau­gural Angry Mac Bastards Drinkathon. If your going to be in town on Thursday, January 26th we’d love to get you shit-faced.

AMB at Macworld | iWorld

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For the third year run­ning Angry Mac Bastards will be doing our schtick live at Macworld | iWorld. If you’re com­ing to the show, stop by and say hello. We promise to be only mildly abusive.

The “No Comments” Circle-Jerk

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It’s once again the sea­son when the hip­ster­atti regale us poor plebes with the glo­ries of not allow­ing com­ments on their pre­cious blogs.

I get it, not allow­ing com­ments make you feel all hip and edgy — but for the love of sweet Minotaur Jesus stop crow­ing about it like you just dis­cov­ered the fuck­ing secret of N.I.M.H.

Corporate Stupid

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In order to com­bat the fact that my co-workers are thiev­ing scum, signs have been placed on the two refrig­er­a­tors in out micro­scopic break room. Instead of say­ing some­thing sen­si­cal, such as “Stop steal­ing shit you thiev­ing ass­holes,” they read:

Stop. Do not take items that you did not purchase.

This con­fuses me. Am I not allowed to take the home-cooked meal that I brought. Alternately, can I just take what­ever I want and leave some money behind. Sometimes it’s bet­ter to just say what you mean.

Business Idea

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I would love to see some­thing that I’m call­ing a “pre­dic­tion escrow ser­vice.” Basically it would work like this. You would reg­is­ter for an account. Then you could log pre­dic­tions with the ser­vice, at which point they would be “locked” with a date-stamp. At any point after that you would be able to “unlock” your pre­dic­tions and share them with a URL. The ben­e­fit of the ser­vice would that you could prove that you made a pre­dic­tion at a spe­cific point in the past.

The obvi­ous use case would be tech­nol­ogy pun­ditry, but I’m sure other uses are possible.

Join the Angry Mac Bastards at Macworld Expo

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Join us, and see how many times John can say “asi­nine” in forty-five minutes.

Happy New Year

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Just a quick post wish­ing all the read­ers a happy New Year. Hopefully 2011 will be bet­ter than the cluster-fuck that was 2010.

Pictures From My Dublin Trip

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Dublin 2010

Some pic­tures from around Herbert Park (and a ran­dom pub) from my lat­est trip to the cor­po­rate mothership.

Die Zombie Scum

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7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly)

Seriously, zom­bies are over­rated and the peo­ple in zom­bie movies are fuck­tards. Now I eagerly await the pro-zombie zealots or as I like to call them, Google users.