Sunday, February 28, 2010

T-Bone Wolk (1951-2010)

Legendary bassist and multi-instrumentalist from Darryl Hall & John Oates band as well as SNL house band and his exemplary work with other artists, especially Elvis Costello during King of America sessions and the following tour. Very enthusiastic and humble. Will be sorely missed.


Hot analyst predicts iPhone price cuts

That’s nice. This Morgan-Stanley hack

I'm hawt. That's awl the credentials I need.

claims the introduction of the  iPad and competition from Google and Microsoft will necessitate Apple dropping the price on its iPhone and iTouch. Well, she cashed another paycheck, didn’t she? What a great job. Get up, go to office. Make up some BS charts and graphs, make up some BS about what some company you don’t work for is going to do and sell that BS to clients, go home, money in bank. How do you land a job like that? Do you get a degree in BS after four years? Do you hafta’ go down on your knees in somebody’s office? Maybe you hafta’ buy a lotta’ kneepads, I dunno’, I’m just speculating here, analyzing the situation, as it is. You know what some of these other tech sites do, now? They put a hot chirpy blond on who has no friggin’ idea what she’s talking about but knows how to read a telelprompter. Check the knees, I say. eWeek won’t allow me to repost their video on Rabid Fanboy but you can link to this bubbly blonde’s report here. Take your time I’ll wait. All done?

I have a worldwide audience, mostly lonely masturbating Russian and Argentinian code jockeys, but I respect them, I respect them all.

Such a professional, or as professional as an intern with strong knees can get. I bet she can barely operate her Palm Pixie or Android phone. Watch this one closely though, I’m sure she’ll get hired by Fox before the bloom goes off her sweet dewy rose.


So simple, a child probably built it

we must stop this outrage, chinese kids stealing our children's after school jobs!

New brouhaha erupting from overseas. Your iPhone and iTouch and probably that upcoming iPad that’s so easy to use a preschooler can use it, was probably built by underage labor.

You must stop this Steve, or so help me, I'll host another telethon!

My gawd, if that’s true, then we truly have a scandal on our hands. You know how many American kids would love to have an afterschool job working for Apple? What a squandered opportunity to appear patriotic and teach values to America’s youth. My golly, when I was six years old, I picked full quarts of strawberries all summer at Jerry’s Farm in New Jersey and got paid a dime for each friggin’ quart and I was freaking happy as shit to get those handful of dimes every day. Cripes, I would gladly work for sixteen dollars and hour (plus benefits) assembling iPads part time just knowing I would be making the world a better place, and so would much of America’s youth. Jobs, suck it up, let those peons go back to making cheap cotton underwear and imitation denim jeans, we need to bring those tech manufacturing tasks back home to our good ol’ American youth.

OH, how did the media ever find out about this in the first place?

Oh, John, did I tell you that they use whips? And they pay the kids in roach droppings and cat turds? It's true, all true, I tell you, no lie. They're monsters, I tell you, monsters!

I understand it was a raving and drooling retard over in the Pacific Northwest, couldn’t say who, but one can guess, right?


Fit To Serve

I like my health care plan ...(chuckle)

Doctors gave President Barack Obama a clean bill of health, citing he’s well enough to serve right on through 2012. Just has to watch his diet and cut out the cigarettes (natch). How come you and I paid for that physical through taxes, but we can’t pay for our own universal heath care? I’m really getting super bummed, now.


Roll dem bones

More fun’n’ games at xkcd


We insist on the highest standards for all the children who work for us in China

It’s true that we’ve found a few cases where some of our suppliers have hired underage workers in China. To our credit, we published this information ourselves, on our Web site. Also, let’s be clear — we’re talking about 15-year-old kids, who lied about their age and pretended to be 16 so they could get a job. I know the press is going to go nuts about this, and you’ll be seeing sensationalist headlines about us hiring children to make iPods. Well, I suppose it sells papers. But the truth is, I was working when I was 15. I bet you were too. Didn’t hurt me, and I don’t think it hurt the kids who were working in our factories. But anyway, we all have to play along and pretend to be contrite. But the truth is, we treat the kids in our factories better than any other company on earth, and frankly, I’m damn proud of that.

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Life before Google


US troops get their Net on

US troops are going to regain access to sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, following a review of Internet use and security.


Sony Music chief foresees the endgame for CDs

This is not precisely a news bulletin. Betanews reports that over the next several years, “a lot more people will be giving up their collections of music CDs in favor of music subscriptions and downloads to smartphones.” Um, a lot of people called that years ago, including El Jobso. He invented iTunes- have you heard of it?


Holy puck

Even if you don’t care about hockey, punch up NBC. USA ties Canada with seconds to go, and it’s 2-2 going into OT.  Update: Take off, eh? Canada bags the gold 3-2.