Coming on the heels of the iPad launch, we get another big announcement this Thursday from The Loop- the next version of the iPhone OS.

FSJ has already referred to the guy that decided to buy an iPad in Pittsburgh, then pound it to pieces with a baseball bat. This, however, proves my theory that stupidity comes in pairs, because this guy decided to put one in a blender. “Will it blend?” Oh, how cute. No, I’m not going to embed the code.  If you want to see this moron in action, be my guest.

I’d like to address what this says about parts of our culture.  The parts that still drag their knuckles. Back to this dreadful little Pittsburgh weasel. We were going to have a Frigtard of The Week award- forget it.  It’s been retired for the year. No one will top this.

What is the purpose behind doing this? Are we so starved for attention that we desperately want to make our YouTube moment that will live forever? Quoting the AFP word for word:

The video of the smashing of the 500-dollar device outside a Best Buy store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday has attracted more than 280,000 views on the video-sharing site.

The Los Angeles Times caught up with Justin Kocott, the 19-year-old high school student who made the video titled “Brand new iPad getting smashed by a baseball bat.”

“I wanted to be the first one to do it before other people did it,” Kocott told the newspaper. “It was just something to do. I knew some people would hate it, but I didn’t think that many people would hate it,” he said. “A lot of people are leaving really bad comments (in the YouTube comments section).” Kocott told the Times he did not have anything against Apple and had actually bought two other iPads. ”I do not at all hate Apple. I love Apple, actually,” he said.

Let me tell you, Justin.  They don’t like you. And neither do I.

I’ll just step out of the persona of this website for a second. I am not being the usual pro-Apple advocate here. I’m speaking as someone who knows the value of things. “It was just something to do,” you say. I suppose you use that flippant excuse anytime you want to do something society would otherwise condone? By that reasoning, if you go shoot someone- that’s just “something to do,” too.  Before anyone else beats you to it.

A lot of people can’t afford one of these.  You, however, decide to take good money, buy one of these devices, and then just smash it to bits…for fun?  I would hate to be your cat or puppy if you own one.  I guess dangling it over the overpass would be “just something to do.”

It’s wasteful.  And it’s a sad commentary on your parents, too.  Did they raise you to respect anything?  Or were you born into a family with a lot of money, so smashing a valuable computer for “kicks” is looked upon as “kids being kids.” You also bought two more, so obviously Daddy bought these for you- not too many Pittsburgh teens can drop 1.5K at a Best Buy, and trash a third of their purchase on a whim. You could’ve taken that extra $500 and donated it to a homeless shelter, if you were so inclined. But you wanted to be The Man on YouTube.

Judging from the response today on the various websites and blogs today, you are The Man.   A very small, pathetic one.

Shame on you.

Some wacko rooting around for aluminum cans was arrested near the LHC. He was dressed weird carrying a baguette, some oyster shells and butter.

FOR THE LAST TIME, THIS IS A CARTOON, NOT A TABLET!

From the JooJoo to the Borg’s Courier everybody’s going to try get a sliver of the huge tablet market created by the iPad, while Apple retains this much market share:

Nice Gizmodo article on the best ways to watch video on your iPad. But take note of this paragraph here:

Vimeo is set to work on the iPad thanks to its conversion to HTML5. Flickr, too. CBS is also currently testing its streaming content in HTML5. And hey, Gizmodo’s (and all Gawker sites’) own video player is now HTML5-friendly, so those videos will play on the iPad as well. With other sites such as the NY Times, CNN and TED switching to an HTML5 video player, there should be plenty of options for you to view web-based videos inside of Safari.

You see that? People are happily dumping Flash for HTML5.  You wanna’ play video in Apple’s walled garden, you gotta’ drop the Flash code and pronto. By the end of the financial quarter in 2012, Adobe will be barely hanging on, ‘cos, ya’ think after people dump Flash, they’re gonna’ wanna use Adobe brand of buggy and slow loading PDF? That’s next on the iPad hit list, you know. And when Apple takes aim at Photoshop …

another Texas icon soon bites the dust ... what next, The Alamo?

Hey, I'm coaching football, here!

There must be something in the water here ‘cos one thing people in Dallas love to do is tear down some its most iconic and beloved structures for “real estate development”. Sunday morning April 11th will mark the demise of one Texas’s, nay this great country’s, most venerable institutions, Texas Stadium. Besides being former home of America’s team, Texas Stadium hosted some of the most bodacious concert events in its long history, some awesome moments include Eddie Van Halen blistering another guitar on stage with Michael Jackson wailing and dancing during the Victory Tour, the 1992 Farm Aid concert featuring Little Village, Bonnie Raiit, The Texas Tornadoes and The Highwaymen, James Brown held a concert there in eighties when only 5,000 fans attended (including yours truly), The Godfather of Soul didn’t cancel the show, he bought the unsold seats and had every one boogie on down to the field and we danced our asses off for hours. Then The Feds grabbed all his ticket receipts for unpaid taxes.  Hey, and speaking of the Godfather, Al Pacino walked that stadium liked he owned it in Any Given Sunday. The ol’ boy gives his final recollections here.

For you, Brinke.

How many entries did we get in our “Woz” contest? None. Nada. Nothing. Naught. Nary a one. Not a jot. A great big goose egg. A bagel. A black hole. A void that stretches to infinity and beyond. Zero. Zilch. Zip. A non-fractional number more than negative one but less than positive one.

Fuck you all!

Hey.

That’s some echo.

Is there anybody here?

Helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooh?

Maybe I’m all alone.

Shit!

Maybe I’m imagining all this … gosh, am I still back in that cell in Shiraz?

Let me just stab myself with this protractor – SHHHHHHEEEEEEEE-IIIIIIITTTTTEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope your’re all happy, now, I’ll probably get blood poisoning and hafta’ to get fixed up on the taxpayers dime and my nickel.

Ingrates. Last time , I try to (grumble, grumble, grumble)

Nice bit in Slate on the idea of heaven or the afterlife. The quote of note for this blog, dear readers:

Emily Dickinson wrote: ” ‘Heaven’—is what I cannot Reach!/ The Apple on the Tree—/ Provided it do hopeless—hang—/ That—”Heaven” is—to Me!”

Ah, yes, for the past decade that “Apple” on the tree has changed shape from time, from the first iPod, to the first iPhone and now the iPad. What can be next?