I Suppose It Could Be A Reference To A Chocolate Truffle
Posted on October 5th, 2011 by Tintin
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Shorter David Paulin, The American Genius:
Rick Perry’s ‘N-Head’ Problem and the Fourth Estate’s Hypocrisy
- I don’t understand all the fuss in the press over “Niggerhead.” Nigger is just a word that can mean many things just like “venetian blinds” can mean many things.
Alternate Shorter David Paulin, The American Genius:
Rick Perry’s ‘N-Head’ Problem and the Fourth Estate’s Hypocrisy
- The entire press is being hypocritical about this “Niggerhead” business because in the 1970s at a white conservative paper in Boston one person left a note for a black reporter saying “Nigger Go Home.”
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New Thread! Thank you!
I didn’t think George Allen was running this year.
Don’t tell me he didn’t mention Robert Byrd?
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Perhaps we could demonstrate for Sr. Paulin what words can mean precisely by Googlebombing him?
ROBERT BYRD!!!
Yer welcome, thudner!
Q: How do you make a venetian blind?
A: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!111!!
I;m not going for the mangoes but does he really mention the whole Boston Herald incident?
…just like “venetian blinds” can mean many things.
Reminds me of this.
Reminds me of this.
If only Paulin had remained the Venetian dumb
The entire press is being hypocritical about this “Niggerhead” business because in the 1970s at a white conservative paper in Boston one person left a note for a black reporter saying “Nigger Go Home.”
Oh my dog, I thought you were joking. Holy crap.
Oh my dog, I thought you were joking. Holy crap.
Gwen Ifil, if memory serves. She wrote about it in her recent book.
Even better shorter: “If these darkies would just learn their place, we wouldn’t problems like this.”
Yes, it was, and it doesn’t surprise me that it happened but that he brought it up as an “even at a paper in liberal Boston!” tu quoque. I suppose nothing these assholes do should surprise me, though: he even gets in a lame-ass swipe at “affirmative action.”
Oh my dog, I thought you were joking. Holy crap.
The ironies about in that story: The Boston Herald, as TinTin points out, has a proud heritage as a conservative newspaper in Boston.
It’s a conservative newspaper in one of the most conservative cities on the East Coast, a city that *proudly* did not integrate its baseball team until every other team in the major leagues had. A city that *proudly* had race riots right into the mid-1970s.
But hey, it’s all us liberals….right?
Hmm.
So, as far as I can tell, he’s saying:
1) Because a woman in Boston got a “nigger go home” note once, that note must have been left by a liberal, so liberals are hypocrites to complain that conservatives are racist.
Someone either doesn’t remember the busing riots of the 1970s, or doesn’t remember that those faggy Yankee liberals who were fighting racism in the South were fighting against that kind of thing in Boston and all over the country too (a big reason why so many people turned against them), or doesn’t remember the tons and tons of white people in Boston and elsewhere who joyfully rallied to Nixon and Reagan in protest against civil rights.
Yeah, I can imagine who left that “nigger go home” note, and who they voted for in 1968, 1972 and 1980. Hint: it wasn’t a liberal.
2) The media hates Perry for having grown up in a “white” America. Never mind that the problem with “Niggerhead” isn’t that it’s a “white” word, it’s that it’s a RACIST word, period. If a German politician anywhere lived in a place called “Kike-head” or whatever the German equivalent of it is, everyone would flip a shit, including the entire Israel-run part of the conservative world, and for good reason.
Once again, color me shocked that opposition to racism in their world equates to opposition to white people. After all, if you can’t recognize that white people are your betters in every respect, it can only be because you’re blinded by your hate for them.
Holy crap! SEIU 1199 has joined in the union show of solidarity for Occupy Wall Street. They’ll be marching today at 4:30 from City Hall to Zuccotti Park.
Dennis Rivera knows how to get people out in force. If only this march was held at 3PM to muck up the financial district while they are still trading.
Well I ain’t gettin outta teh boat, but I will say this in Paulin’s defense – whomever it was that left Gwen Ifill that note shouldn’t be preznit either.
The comments over dere = comedy gold!
Just sayin’.
The comments over dere = comedy gold!
Full of the whole “black = social aristocracy”. I loved them.
I am surprised he didn’t find a way to blame Obama.
zrm,
Maybe your eyes crusted over before you got to this bit:
(emphasis mine)
A guy who owes Perry defends Perry. Stop the presses!
the New Black Panthers
Soon to be followed by Classic Black Panthers, Diet Black Panthers, and possibly Caffeine-Free Black Panthers.
Soon to be followed by Classic Black Panthers, Diet Black Panthers, and possibly Caffeine-Free Black Panthers.
Also, Panther One.
And Mr PiBB
All two of the New Black Panthers? oh noes !
Noes-body noes
The noeses I’ve seen
Noes-body noes
But Rudolph…
Cherry Black Panthers.
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Black Panthers Zero
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Black Panther: The Next Generation
Black Panther 2: Blacklectric Pantherloo
2 Black 2 Panther: Tokyo Drift
Shining Like a Nation of Islam: Black Panther’s Greatest Hits
Black Panther-er or maybe Black Panther With a Vengeance
Don’t Worry, Black Panther
The Empire Strikes Black Panther
Amy Winehouse’s greatest: Back to Black Panther
Back in Black Panther
The Mark of the Mask of the Son of the Revenge of the Return of the Black Panther 2 rides again: the quickening VS Mechagodzilla!
Who’s looking forward to teh Black to the Panther remake?
Return of the Son of Shut Up and Play Yer Black Panther
D-KW is, of course, desperately searching for the New Black Cougars.
Panthers of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
The comments over dere = comedy gold!
and so full of teh st00pid it’s breathtaking…my favorite is the most recent wherein the commentor advises perry to say to lamestream journalists who ask about it: ‘now are we going to talk about the issues or are you just going to wast time?’
i find this quite rich and lulzable…
I hear JJ Abrams is going to do to the franchise what he did for Star Trek franchise in Black Panther!: Citizens on Patrol. starring an audio animatronic Sammy Davis Junior as Huey Newton, Eddie Murphy as Bobby Seale and Martin Lawrence as H. Rap Brown!
Martin Lawrence as H. Rap Brown!
don’t think he’s working so much anymore…
The media is complicit in the cover-up!
The issue(s): what to do about that muslin in the White House?
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So, in the New Black Panther, will Chris Tucker be portraying Inspector Jacques Clouseau?
Fear of Black Panther.
Black Panther II – Electric Pantherloo.
S-McG (IF that is your real name!), failed to vet equals did not prevent Obama from winning the election despite the wingnut skreefest.
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Yes. John Claude Van Damme will be cast as Kato.
“2 Black 2 Panther: Tokyo Drift”
Oh my. How I laughed. Your drink is on me.
Liberals and conservatives debate the reasons for the problem of “whiteness” in the newsroom, as one journalism professor snidely put it in an article in trade magazine Editor and Publisher. (Many conservative media analysts contend that it’s due to a lack of qualified blacks and Hispanics in a highly competitive field.)
Jeeze, all you have to do to make these people look like assholes is quote them, in context at that.
Also:
Paint it Black Panther
Fade to Black Panther
Fear of a Black Panther (too on the nose?)
It’s gonna take Apple an extra year to get around to the New White Panther.
Oops, Mr. Wonderful got there first.
Topical?
Tennessee Denies ‘Voting ID’ To 96-Year-Old Black Lady
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Black Panthers 3: Look Who’s Blacking Now
Wingnut used MISDIRECTION!
It’s NOT VERY EFFECTIVE!
The more racist skeletons like this you find buried in the GOP’s back yard, the more it proves that the media are the REAL racists here!
Also, Obama was chumming around with the NBP back in 2007 when their army had THREE mighty Mecha-Nigras (I’m assuming they had to lay someone off prior to the election) if you believe Breitbart’s grainy &/or weirdly-processed-looking photos (& who in their right mind would ever dare doubt such a paragon of journalistic integrity?)! Obummer’s just waiting for his second term to take your guns away SO HE CAN GIVE THEM TO TEH CRIPS & TEH BLOODS.
The media is complicit in the cover-up!
11,000 articles is a clear indication of ignorance
Oh my. How I laughed. Your drink is on me.
Then you didn;t laugh hard enough because its supposed to be *your* drink on you.
diary of a mad black panther
I hear JJ Abrams is going to do to the franchise what he did for Star Trek franchise in Black Panther!: Citizens on Patrol. starring an audio animatronic Sammy Davis Junior as Huey Newton, Eddie Murphy as Bobby Seale and Martin Lawrence as H. Rap Brown!
And yet, will still get to sneak in a man-eating alien.
Black Panther Begins: The prequel
“Anonymous said,
October 5, 2011 at 19:09
diary of a mad black panther”
Lulzy
If Ozzy has his own advice column, then who’s going to front the New Black Panther?
And will the old Black Panther fetch anything on eBay?
black panthlander ii: the blackening…
goddammit! now wonder i’m being somewhat ignore today…i am anonymous…
and also, too i can’t spell…that would be NO wonder…
and also, too i can’t spell…that would be NO wonder…
Now problem
“And yet, will still get to sneak in a man-eating alien.”
I would totally watch a movie abou Mexican cannibals.
Y’know, unspoken in all this is, why would the right wing care?
I mean, if the word has no meaning any longer, if the context its in is perfectly innocent, then why bother explaining it all? And certainly, why get all butt hurt that the media is covering it?
Pirates Of The Plantation: Curse Of The Black Panther
D-KW is, of course, desperately searching for the New Black Cougars.
Just got back from my bunl, did I miss anything?
Black Panth-qwkister
Black Panther S4 is pretty good, but I was hoping for Black Panther 5.
I would totally watch a movie abou Mexican cannibals.
Your wish is my command
Pirates Of The Plantation: Curse Of The Black Panther
Ahem
On Black Panther’s Secret Service
From Black Panther with love
The Black Panther with the golden gun
Black Panthers are forever
Black Panther never dies
Blackpantherpussy
OT: There’s going to be a big rally by Occupy this afternoon (including SEIU 1199, which probably has more members than there are teapartiers in NYC) and they’re assembling at Zuccotti Park. Instead of the single bongos we’ve been listening to for the last three weeks, there’s what sounds like a marching band with – I kid not – a cow bell in the rhythm section.
Also OT, for the Kiwi contingent, go to the bottom of page 6: http://cdn.wmf.org/downloads/Watch-PR.pdf
If history is anything to go by, expect the Washington Post and others to engage in lots more race-baiting of Republican presidential candidates.
You can tell from the way the “races” being “baited” totally vote for Republican presidential candidates.
Needs more cow bell.
Hey, someone had to say it!
N__B,
I wish the rally wasn’t at 4:30, tho, but at 3 so the Wall Streeters would have to deal with it.
BTW, the unions are gathering further uptown. I heard City Hall, but I think they’ve been asked to move to Foley Square, because they expect 20,000 people to show up.
Based on past union rallys, specifically for the budget cuts three years ago, I’m thinking more like 50K, especially with Rivera’s troops
Also OT, for the Kiwi contingent, go to the bottom of page
65Fixed for accuracy. The document shows it as page 5.
You can tell from the way the “races” being “baited” totally vote for Republican presidential candidates.
Because no democrat has ever been caught making anything close to racist comments
Black Panther Head Hunting Camp
Just got back from my bunl, did I miss anything?
what the eff is a bunl? or do i not want to know…
When’s the iPanther 3 coming out?
what the eff is a bunl? or do i not want to know…
HINT: It’s D-KW
There and Black Panther Again
The Fellowship of Black Panther
The Two Black Panthers
The Return of the King of Black Panthers
I mean, if the word has no meaning any longer, if the context its in is perfectly innocent, then why bother explaining it all? And certainly, why get all butt hurt that the media is covering it?
i find it especially amusing that the dipshit starts out his article with ‘n****r go home!’ but then gets brave and uses ‘nigger’ straight up through the rest of the article? did the actual note say n****r? if so, it could have been any number of words…and perhaps mistakenly left on gwen ifill’s desk…
i heard many a threat and/or behoovement for said black person to immediately vacate the premises when i lived in texas in the same time period in which gov. perry’s dad began leasing the hunting camp…nobody in the entire fucking town thought anything of it…so, when perry says he noticed it immediately and they painted over the rock asap, i’m inclined to not believe him…also too, if the family leased the hunting camp sporadically, how would it be legal for them to paint over it?
,,,bunl
Uh, it’s typo due to having slippery-sticky fingers.
HINT: It’s D-KW
yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh…i’m getting that now…that’s supposed to be bunk, isn’t it…fingers must be sticky…
they may be sticky, but they are faster than mine…
Indeed
D-KW must have gotten excited thinking about the mother-raping Black Panthers.
What D-KW doesn’t realize is these are the NEW Black Panthers. They father-rape.
black panther origins: wolverines!!!!11111!
Because no democrat has ever been caught making anything close to racist comments
Biden’s idiocy notwithstanding, the point that the GOP does a lot more of it would still seem valid to me. (Not to say that Democrats, or “the Washington Post,” don’t have their moments too, or that those moments shouldn’t be denounced as well).
Biden’s idiocy notwithstanding, the point that the GOP does a lot more of it would still seem valid to me.
I was speaking more to his plaint that the media will endlessly cover only Republican racism, which implied a lack of interest in Democratic racism.
What D-KW doesn’t realize is these are the NEW Black Panthers. They father-rape.
The New Black Panthers, they fuck your dad,
At Self-Defense, yer pops pretty bad.
But what makes old skool Black Panthers cum
Is that fat old slut of a whore that’s your mum.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
October 5, 2011 at 19:51
so glad to see poetry night is back on…
I was speaking more to his plaint that the media will endlessly cover only Republican racism, which implied a lack of interest in Democratic racism.
Oh, that. Yeah.
100!
so glad to see poetry night is back on…
Here I sit, all broken hearted
I wanted to shit, but instead the NEW Black Panthers father-raped me.
through the lips and over the gums
look out anus here comes the NEW black panthers!
There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose dick was so long,
He got father-raped by the NEW Blakc Panthers.
Because I could not stop for the NEW Black Panthers,
Andrew Breitbart cropped a picture to make it look like I did.
And what rough Black Panther, its hour come round at last
Slouches toward your father to get laid…
Roses are red
Panthers are black
And they love to get
You father in teh sack.
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely NEW Black Panthers;
So, in the New Black Panther, will Chris Tucker be portraying Inspector Jacques Clouseau?
Don’t you mean Blacques Clouseau?
Anybody do Black Dawn?
WOLVERINES!!!BLACK BEARS!!!!Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
and he didn’t leave much to Ma and me,
just this old guitar and a bottle of booze.
Now I don’t blame him because he run and hid,
but the meanest thing that he ever did was
before he left he went and had me father-raped by the NEW Black Panthers
(side note: I never knew the lyrics to this song were written by Shel Silverstein)
side note: I never knew the lyrics to this song were written by Shel Silverstein
What? Really?! OMG, teh sidewalk apparently ends in an unsavoury part of town.
I had a similar reaction when I found out he wrote “Cover of the Rolling Stone” (which I only looked up because I was watching “Almost Famous”).
I had a similar reaction when I found out he wrote “Cover of the Rolling Stone” (which I only looked up because I was watching “Almost Famous”).
shut the front door! rilly? i had no idea…hmmmm not a huge fan of his, but now have a modicum of respect for him…
Barack Hussein O was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he.
He called for your dad, to be violently had
By his New Black Panther army.
Ich bin ein New Black Panther!
Once upon a midnight dusky
In berets I’m sure were musky
Panthers black with truncheons rusty came a-knocking at my door.
Crying “Let us in there, cracker,
We’re not getting any blacker;
Tell your mom we will not pack her
With our PENISes on the floor,
Just your dad, that filthy whore.”
The Kid from Kounty Meath said,
October 5, 2011 at 20:36
*golfclap*
You’ve heard of the Occupy Wall Street protests, right?
Well, another band of disaffected citizenry is marching on Washington
side note: I never knew the lyrics to this song were written by Shel Silverstein
The Fairness Doctrine dictates we must all now listen to this, but actual fairness dictates that I warn you not to listen past the 2:30 mark.
marching on Washington
I welcome our armored overlords.
But where are the corresponding armawetsuits?
This is how the world ends.
This is how the world ends.
This is how the world ends.
Not with a teabag, but a blackly-black-black.
[lurkmode off]
S. cerevisiae: Deschutes tasting tomorrow from 3-7 at Brew Station.
Les Caves opens today, also too.
[lurkmode on]
The Kid from Kounty Meath said,
October 5, 2011 at 20:36
Truly inspired. I was giggling enough at the others to fill my adult diaper, but the AE Poe rewrite caused me to go for a change-up.
But where are the corresponding armawetsuits?
D’Oh!
Well, another band of disaffected citizenry is marching on Washington
they can’t be any more smelly and disgusting than politicians!
Shel Silverstein wrote or co-wrote 26 songs for Dr Hook and the Medicine Show. Besides Cover of the Rolling Stone, probably their other biggest hit Sylvia’s Mother was also written by Shel along, of course, with Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball.
The Kid from Kounty Meath said,
October 5, 2011 at 20:36
All hail our new Meathy overlords!
Well, another band of disaffected citizenry is marching on Washington
They will be arriving in the D.C. area in the trousers of washed-up metal bands.
This is how the world ends.
Sic transit gloria mundi,
a mentula panthera pardus ad c?lus pater.
Oh god, he wrote Sylvia’s Mother?
Oh man, my esteem for him just plummeted. I love The Smoke-Off, I Got Stoned And I Missed It, and Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout, but Sylvia’s Mother?
I’m….I’m…words cannot express my disappointment!
It Takes a Nation of Panthers to Hold Us Black
They will be arriving in the D.C. area in the trousers of washed-up metal bands.
There’s a KISS concert?
Oh god, he wrote Sylvia’s Mother?
Yeah, even Shel has clunker now and then.
“An anteater the petman told my dad.
Turned out it was an aunteater and now my uncle’s mad”
– Shel Siverstein
“An anteater the petman told my dad.
Turned out it was an aunteater and now
my uncle’sDKW’s mad”– S,N! version
That is just an awesome song. Cracks me up every time.
Much cuddlier, too. Armadillos only carry leprosy.
We are talking about DKW here?
Oh. Nevermind.
Oh man, my esteem for him just plummeted.
Maybe this will redeem him in your eyes.
Well, another band of disaffected citizenry is marching on Washington
Quick, alert the Dept of Defense.
Maybe this will redeem him in your eyes.
If that’s not enough, there’s always this gem. It sorta has the patented vacuumslayer vibe- creepypretty and whimsical.
gosh, don’t i just have the best memories of texas?
Ever go to the Perry family hunting camp?
Ever go to the Perry family hunting camp?
sadly, no…but i did get to go out to the lease of a male friend of mine…i’m pretty sure i was as disappointed that evening as i would have been at camp n-head…
i always found that term weird…calling something ‘the lease’ but then again, they called some lakes ‘tanks’ so there ya go…
One time, at Perry camp, I deep throated a corndog…
I thought this take was brilliant.
This works too.
I’ve taken to calling my little guy “Pookietronic.” I like it even better than Dudeskull.
I’ve taken to calling my little guy “Pookietronic.” I like it even better than Dudeskull.
omg…i am soooo coming to virginia so i can hold your babby…he gets cuter every day!
my kids both had a variety of names growing up…still do, arctually…
[whore] I have no idea what you’re talking about. [/whore]
I’ve taken to calling my little guy “Pookietronic.”
Does Mr Slayer mind?
I always called mine “Bob,” like in “For apples”
Note to self: Hide apples when actor comes over.
Aww,thanks,bbkf. Yer welcome to give him a squeeze anytime.
And some folks love hamhocks
And some folks love pork chops
And some folks love vegetable soup
And Roland the roadie
Loved Gertrude the groupie
But Gertrude the groupie loved goups
I always called mine “Bob,” like in “For apples”
Not as in tail?
I always called mine “Bob,”
Does it ever come when you call it?
Calling “Bob”.
I always found bobbing for french fries to be a more challenging test of character.
Does it ever come when you call it?
No, but it’s been known to perk up when D-KW’s mom calls it.
I always found bobbing for french fries to be a more challenging test of character.
It would explain why so many Teabaggers have such bad complexions.
Does it ever come when you call it?
OOOOOH. Shakespeare reference. S,N! is edumacational.
Shaking the speare
Actual Michele Bachmann quote:
One-L-Two-Ns said something stoopid? Get out! Next thing you’re gonna try to tell us water is wet, or fire is hot.
Wait. If they’re running a surplus that’s BAD, right?
They needz to CUT TAXEZZ111!!1
They needz to CUT TAXEZZ111!!1
Or get a gubmint subsidy.
Hey, if anyone here is friends with Melissa Hayes (aka Ginger Snaps on Facebook), she was killed this morning in a car accident in Nebraska. She ran a stop sign and hit a house.
In other Crazee Shellee news…
I didn’t think George Allen was running this year.
Sure he is!
In other Crazee Shellee news…
Money quote:
Science Project Idea!, he comment-whored.
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Rick Perry, The Nuge, & The “N-Word.”
BREAKING Sean Hannity’s heart: Bible Spice has quit her job as someone who pretends she might run for president halfway through.
they called some lakes ‘tanks’ so there ya go…
Not lakes, more like ponds. Lakes are lakes, even in Tejas.
HILARIOUS
Courtesy of TRMS.
Bible Spice
I thought Snowmobile Snooki was her new title?
After you watch that one, which you WILL DO, here is the site with a bunch more.
“The police have agreed to look for my stooges tape. I hope you don’t shoot at me.”
“She talks to Bigfoot, which is her neighbor”
Her sister talks to bigfoot, who is her neighbor. Get it right. This is how lies are spread in the lamestream media.
More of the same GOP “heads I win, tails you lose” argumentation. The N-head rock isn’t racist and Rick Perry covered up the non-racist word because he’s not a racist and there was nothing racist about these old place names or remnants from the Old South which wasn’t a time of racism anyway just because there was slavery then which wasn’t a racist institution and it’s time to get over all that it anyway because the mean Northerners started a war that wasn’t about slavery or racism but it ended slavery which the South would have eventually phased out anyway, and even though conservatives cling to and embrace these things that blackety blacks and liberals say are racist, they really aren’t racist because it was Democrats who imposed Jim Crow on the South and Robert Byrd once belonged to the KKK and so, the liberals own that racism if it was racism and ever really existed in the first place and of course racism exists outside the South so that makes the South less racist and libs better just stop race-baiting because the real racists are the scary blackety blacks that hate white people and the liberals who just stir it all up because they’re Commies that want to destroy Ummerika which would have been destroyed if the Confederacy won, but they were right about States Rights which isn’t code for anything racist and we should just keep fighting for what the Confederacy wanted even though it lost because it’s what white Christians want and there’s nothing racist about that.
Put it up on yer blogue, gocart.
Gocart’s Weather Chart
Democrat In The U. S. House
2 months ago
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RWW said,
October 6, 2011 at 1:21
Do you mean to tell me that I’m the REAL racist?
Oh. Oh shit.
Yes if you’re a white lib, you pull off the difficult task of being the REAL racist against blacks as well as hating your OWN race. Nicely done!
I thought Snowmobile Snooki was her new title?
She’ll always be Caribou Barbie to me.
And I donate my Internet to the Kid from Kounty Meath as well. That poem deserves to go viral.
Yes if you’re a white lib, you pull off the difficult task of being the REAL racist against blacks as well as hating your OWN race. Nicely done!
White liberal and straight. It’s hard to remember who I hate anymore.
Calvinball against an army of halfwitted, reactionary turdlickers is not for the weak of constitution.
Whoa. Steve Jobs is dead. Insert your own iPhone 4S joke here,
Whoa. Steve Jobs is dead. Insert your own iPhone 4S joke here
Just goes to show you, no matter how wealthy and successful you are, you’re worm food in the end.
The thread has apparently committed suicide in sympathy
“Yes if you’re a white lib, you pull off the difficult task of being the REAL racist against blacks as well as hating your OWN race. Nicely done!”
I’m nothing if not flexible.
Steerpike, I’m about halfway through Titus Groan. Man is that some good readin’
Your namesake is a real fucker.
Epic summary, RWW. I hope getting into the wingnut head that completely didn’t damage your neurons any…
Awesome, kg. I’m actually re-reading it right now for the fourth or fifth time in my life, the first was when I was about 15 years old. Glad you’re enjoying it. Yes, Steerpike is a real shit. Wait ’til book 2!
The Occupy Wall Street movement will be in front of my building tomorrow in downtown Houston (the JP Morgan Chase Tower – fun fact: at one time the tallest building west of the Mississippi!). Wonder what kind of crowd will show.
Interesting side note: there are virtually no JPM staff left in the building, aside from a few bank tellers in the lobby. They moved everyone out one block away a couple of years ago.
Wait ’til book 2!
I was going to write just the same thing!
Anybody have a trolling account at “conservatives4palin”? I wanted to post this, but I’ll be damned if I’ll register.
That sounds like effort. My thoughts on effort are well-documented.
Never has the conservative position on race ever been presented with such detail and with such care.
Literally.
Steerpike, I’m about halfway through Titus Groan. Man is that some good readin’
Make sure you get a recent edition of Titus Alone. Early editions were butchered by an editor at the publisher who had strong concerns about style and no concern at all about plot continuity.
Never has the conservative position on race ever been presented with such detail and with such care.
Here’s the shorter:
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I think there were mass suicides at Free Republic today.
Hey, if anyone here is friends with Melissa Hayes (aka Ginger Snaps on Facebook), she was killed this morning in a car accident in Nebraska. She ran a stop sign and hit a house.
No shit?
I think I have interacted with her in the toobz in other spots (Eschaton?).
.
Her sister talks to bigfoot, who is her neighbor.
I swear to Dog, when I first saw that yesterday, I nearly shat my trousers laughing. Those maniacs are geniuses.
“And save a pretzel for the gas jets!”
.
Boy, I sure dicked it up, And at 21:05, local time!
.
Welcome to Mittville, Repubs! Oh sure, it looks like a three-man field, with Goodhair and Uncle Ruckus still getting headlines. And you’ve got crazy-eyes, Frothy Mixture and a few other VP-wannabes cluttering up the pre-primary season debates, but ya may as well face it: Romney WILL be the nominee. Bank it.
I can’t wait to hear the Tea-Pee-ers choke on that, as they try to choke down the nasty medicine and smile when they have to come out and endorse him.
And as Rachel pointed out this evening, they can’t even hold out for Marco Rubio–he announced today that he will not accept a veep slot.
Predictions? I think One-L-Two-Ns will get the VP nom. If that doesn’t happen, expect to see a juicy spoiler thrid-party candidate from the TP. My guess? Palin. You betcha!
Bookmark it. You’ll look back and wonder how I was able to call it so accurately.
Can’t believe I never even heard about it until recently (here actually). I’m so hooked, wifey is getting a bit peeved
Can’t believe I never even heard about it until recently (here actually). I’m so hooked, wifey is getting a bit peeved
Peake’s flair for description, especially his description of the castle itself, is amazing.
Have you ever read anything by Jack Vance?
Welcome to Mittville was a shitty sitcom.
Have a Coke and a smile… alternate title: PENIS!
No Jack Vance but I’m adding him to my list. I’ll still be a bit devouring the Gormenghast books. For me, a “lot” of reading means a book every two weeks (stupid job! stupid life!).
Just got done with American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I’m giving that one a rousing “meh”. I recently enjoyed a nice collection of short stories by Ted Chiang called Stories of Your Life and Others. I especially enjoyed Seventy Two Letters.
I think there were mass suicides at Free Republic today.
I doubt we’ll be that lucky.
No Jack Vance but I’m adding him to my list.
Are you familiar with Clark Ashton Smith’s work? If you like CAS, you’ll probably like Vance- Vance’s prose is similarly purple (gloriously so), but his works have a more “human” viewpoint, as opposed to CAS’ “cosmicism”.
Hey Sadlies, I posted a proposed T-shirt design over at my joint and I’m looking for feedback, so when you get a moment, if you would please, drop by for a look-see and let me know what you think. (this was one of the projects I mentioned to you earlier, vs.)
I like it.
I posted a proposed T-shirt design over at my joint and I’m looking for feedback
Perfect. Let them eat wicker.
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Heh. If I get some printed up, maybe I should send one to Atrios.
Mr. Negative sez: Will the image transfer well to a T-shirt? And it may be too wordy for a shirt. Think short, punchy. And try the first paragraph above the image.
I think it’s great, personally, but I can read (quickly). Most people wandering the streets looking at T-shirts can’t.
Yeah, splitting up the text is a good idea.
I posted a proposed T-shirt design over at my joint and I’m looking for feedback
I’m not sure it needs any text. The image tells the story.
RIP, Steve Jobs. Whether you are a fanboy or a Windozer, he helped make your life a little more fun and introduced the potential of all things tech to the masses.
iWill miss him.
Jen, I’m with M on this. Shorten the text. The image is really effective.
Relevant to Jennifer’s interests.
Whatever the final design is, I’ll buy and wear one.
I do not approve of hanging Pooh.
Hanging the Pooh.
I’ll buy a tee-shirt with any variation on the wording as long as (1) it has that picture and (2) it’s not some American Apparel piece of crap sized for starving hipsters and thinner than tissue paper.*
*Like, say, my Gawker “Douché” tee.
I freakin’ HATE those new thin tees.
BTW, if anyone has use for it, you’re welcome to use this image for anything, just put a link to my gallery on it.
BTW, if anyone has use for it, you’re welcome to use this image for anything, just put a link to my gallery on it.
this is one of my faves of yours…also, must have g-word tshirt…agree with pithy crowd…
Hanging the Pooh.
Cutting the stem
S. cerevisiae said,
Welcome to Mittville was a shitty sitcom.
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A failed spinoff of “Flipper”
A tv take of “I Robot”
Or, the American version of
“All Creatures Great and Small on the Roof of my Car”
“All Creatures Great and Small on the Roof of my Car”
*waterspit down*
I wonder if the final decisive reason the Snowbilly dropped out of the running is she realized she’ll be Raptured on Dec. 21st?
Updated design now posted – thanks for the critique folks, this new one is much better.
RIP, Steve Jobs. Whether you are a fanboy or a Windozer, he helped make your life a little more fun and introduced the potential of all things tech to the masses.
iWill miss him.
I bought my first Mac five months ago. Let’s just say it’s my first major commitment in a looooong time that has worked perfectly.
I bought my first Mac five months ago. Let’s just say it’s my first major commitment in a looooong time that has worked perfectly.
an endorsement indeed! we’ve been using mac on the homefront for about 8 years now and i still struggle with it…i’ve always heard how ‘intuitive’ and simpler macs are…apparently my brain works in an entirely different fashion…
we’ve been using mac on the homefront for about 8 years now and i still struggle with it
In terms of…?
Hey, it’s election day again here in Ontario so I’ve got voting on my mind. Anyways, my vote is that Dorothy Cooper’s story go viral.
I’m partial to teh spin that Steve Benen has put on it:
In terms of…?
mostly trying to find where files are…we have a desktop, laptop and an external drive…and using microsoft office programs…the first issue is probably just how we are set up and i don’t pay enough attention when hubbkf tells me how to retrieve, save to or back up…
mostly trying to find where files are…we have a desktop, laptop and an external drive…and using microsoft office programs
Well, MS-Office issues are a combination of the bloatware that Micro$oft puts out coupled with the fact they don’t like the Mac very much. They used to have a stellar Office for Mac design team but they pulled the plug on it when Jobs repaid the Gates loans and started dissing M$.
The Apple finder is pretty weak to be sure, but if you have a recent OS-X version, I find the fastest way to locate files that I’m unsure of is to click the little spyglass icon in the upper right and trigger a Spotlight search.
OK, this is a cool tribute to Steve Jobs. Apple users will get it immediately
actor212 said,
October 6, 2011 at 18:02
ha! glad to know that it’s not all me…yeah, we get all the os-x updates…i will try the spyglass…sometimes i feel like tina fey in ‘date night’…’stupid rainbow wheel!’
You know who else was pepper-sprayed?
No, not him.
Them!
OK, this is a cool tribute to Steve Jobs. Apple users will get it immediately
that’s pretty funneh…i posted my rainbow wheel comment before i clicked the link…
“All Creatures Great and Small on the Roof of my Car”
OK, that was inspired. You should really spread that one far and wide. Seriously.
My high school history kind of zipped through the whole War of 1812. I’m a little hazy on the why, how and what happened. (at least I have apretty good idea of the when) Fortunately there’s a new movie that should clear it all up.
i’ve always heard how ‘intuitive’ and simpler macs are…apparently my brain works in an entirely different fashion…
No sheet! Was trying to put some photos in A. Friend’s school-district supplied Mac onto a CD, & it was like pulling teeth. I’ll grant that the District may have it set up oddly, & A. Friend is no tech pro (or she wouldn’t have asked me to do it) but Gee-ziz,
Delusional ignorant fuckwit claims he took his ball and went home.
The Apple finder is pretty weak to be sure
I rest my case.
“October 6, 2011 at 19:02
i’ve always heard how ‘intuitive’ and simpler macs are…apparently my brain works in an entirely different fashion…”
Mine too. I never really got that claim.
My high school history kind of zipped through the whole War of 1812.
We tried to invade Canada and got our butts kicked. We burned the parliament building in York (now Toronto). That’s why the Brits burned Washington. Our history books conveniently skip over that part.
For day-to-day use, you still need to learn how to use them, just like any complex tool.
I think where macs got the “intuitive and simple” thing was largely from the “just works” aspect of the hardware. While Windows (especially in the XP and earlier days) was an absolute abomination in terms of incompatible device drivers and mysterious failures, Mac hardware generally “just worked.”
If you’ve ever tried to setup printing or network connectivity on both systems, that’s where the real difference shows up.
Apple also tended to be a bit more conservative in their approach to changing the UI — they generally didn’t radically re-invent the interface every new version. They add lots of handy new features, but don’t change a ton and force new stuff on folks (generally). The switch from OS9 to OSX was big, but there have been a ton of improvements to OSX across the various versions that were relatively non-intrusive, unlike the Windows UI changes from XP-to-Vista-to-Seven.
The two are much closer together these days, but the reputation still remains.
Of course my first real exposure to Jobsian machines was a NeXT Cube, which was fucking awesome, so I may be biased.
RIP Steve.
And maybe that comment will redeem me in ZRM’s eyes for my heresy against the sacred iPod cable last thread.
Was trying to put some photos in A. Friend’s school-district supplied Mac onto a CD, & it was like pulling teeth.
Finder->New->New Burn Folder->
Stick alias to photos in. Burn
Simple as cake.
Delusional ignorant fuckwit claims he took his ball and went home.
Shorter Boeceefus:
Yew cain’t fair me! Ah quet!
We tried to invade Canada and got our butts kicked. We burned the parliament building in York (now Toronto). That’s why the Brits burned Washington. Our history books conveniently skip over that part.
Like they skip over Shays’s Rebellion…and how slavery was a major motivator in the Texas Rebellion…and how the Mexican-American war came about because Polk wanted California and the Mexicans wouldn’t sell it to him…and how the Spanish-American War was hyped to sell newspapers…and…and…
The last time I suggested this (at Pandagon) I got flamed good and hard, but I really think Samuel Eliot Morison’s History of the American People is one of the best, most comprehensive and objective history texts out there. I don’t know why it isn’t used in schools more often.
Actually, maybe I do. (Think Texas Stupidity Board, or whatever that thing is that dictates to textbook publishers.)
Finder->New->New Burn Folder->
Stick alias to photos in. Burn
Simple as cake.
Yeah. Sure sounds simpler than selecting the files you want, right-clicking and selecting “Burn to CD” from the context menu.
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As usual, The Onion sums it all up nicely
Delusional ignorant fuckwit claims he took his ball and went home.
I thought them entertainer types weren’t s’posed to talk about politics anyhow?
Sure sounds simpler than selecting the files you want, right-clicking and selecting “Burn to CD” from the context menu
That’s that inferior OS, right? If you can stay awake through it long enough, it has a few gems in it.
Yeah, why won’t he just shut up and sing?
Sure sounds simpler than selecting the files you want, right-clicking and selecting “Burn to CD” from the context menu
Interesting. My version of Windoze doesn’t have this “feature”
And I’m sure Gates would fuck it up and erase my network for me, all while Clippy does a little Satanist jig
Interesting. My version of Windoze doesn’t have this “feature”
It’s been a long time, so I might be mistaken, but I’m thinking it may have been one of the additions in TweakUI.
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Fuckin’ mango ORCHARD.
Absolutely. And, of course, I do appreciate not having to worry much about viruses.
Further, on my Mac (that happens to have Toast installed), you can do the right-click thing. Assuming you have a multiple-button mouse.
Without Toast, you get a CD icon on the desktop or in Finder, and just drag files onto it. When you’re done, eject the disk and it burns it…
But Windows has gotten much better with this stuff too. People rarely have truly new ideas in UI design, everybody copies each other, and both companies have generally worked hard to make their systems easier to use. Everybody wins.
Fuckin’ mango ORCHARD.
Look, this boat is safe and dry…
Another gem from The Onion.
Fuckin’ mango ORCHARD.
Actually, a few of those comments seem relatively sane, taking apart his premise of “The Apple Store is nicer than a housing project, therefore government should turn itself over to private industry.”
Fuckin’ mango ORCHARD.
If you are gonna tease, you should at least bring back some tang, to give those of us so inclined, a taste of what awaits, opportunity to do a wetsuit density reading and so on…IMHO.
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Ok, I’ve got the second t-shirt design posted…for those who can’t handle guillotines.
Interesting. My version of Windoze doesn’t have this “feature”
And I’m sure Gates would fuck it up and erase my network for me, all while Clippy does a little Satanist jig
All of that phony shit went away with Win7. Windows 7 is an outstanding operating system. Anyone who tells you otherwise is too stupid to operate a Mac or a PC.
Also, keep in mind that Windows, all the way back to to the beginning, allowed open development, where Apple did not. The quality control that Apple used went a long way toward making sure that applications didn’t hang the operating system. This sort of cut both ways for users.
Where viruses are concerned, don’t think that OSx is any more secure than Windows, it is not. It rountinely goes down as fast as Window when the pros hack at it. The difference is that virus/malware developers know Windows is the OS for over 90% of the world’s computers. That fact alone makes them a target. I would advise against throwing down challenges to hackers. That has a 100% chance of ending badly for Mac owners.
We tried to invade Canada and got our butts kicked. We burned the parliament building in York (now Toronto). That’s why the Brits burned Washington. Our history books conveniently skip over that part.
We provided the Canuckistanis with material for their national anthem…
Interesting. My version of Windoze doesn’t have this “feature”
I’m using vanilla XP Professional and vanilla 7 Premium. It’s right click: Send To: > whatever drive. Also the File drop down has the Send To. Also Windoze autolaunches a dialog box whenever you pop a blank CD in with a “Open Folder to View Files” option which allows drag n drop.
Not that it’s perfect – you get the dialog box regardless. If you sent to DVD-burner via right-click and then inserted a blank disk, you get a dialog box asking you what you want to do despite the machine having already asked you to insert a disk.
Also too, some of us like gaming.
“Actually, a few of those comments seem relatively sane, taking apart his premise of “The Apple Store is nicer than a housing project, therefore government should turn itself over to private industry.”
I’m referring g to the article itself which is brimming with smug sociopathy.
Actually, a few of those comments seem relatively sane, taking apart his premise of “The Apple Store is nicer than a housing project, therefore government should turn itself over to private industry.”
First, Jobs is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. Go check his political contributions. Most are to the left of Jerry Brown.
Second, to say, as at least one commenter did, that OWS people don’t get capitalism…well, lemme see, capitalism has thrown them out of work, thrown their parents out of their homes, given the entire nations that have remained absolutely stagnant for 40 years and basically fucked us all up the ass.
So I’d say, yea, they get capitalism.
Jobs designed some great products, but I can promise you that his first thought was not “How much can I make off this?” but “Will this be fun to use?”
For Provider_UNE:
Windows 7 is an outstanding operating system.
Oh? So they finally reverse-engineered OSX? 😉
We provided the Canuckistanis with material for their national anthem…
Gin?
Windows 7 is an outstanding operating system. Anyone who tells you otherwise is too stupid to operate a Mac or a PC.
Best one thus far – but also if teh pattern holds, the next major revamp is going to suck moar than Creed. It’s kinda liek how teh Star Trek movies alternate in quality.
3.1 was good, 95 sucked, 98 was good, let’s not talk about Millenium Edition, XP is still pretty sweet, Vista was Apple’s greatest marketing tool and now there is 7.
3.1 was good, 95 sucked, 98 was good, let’s not talk about Millenium Edition, XP is still pretty sweet, Vista was Apple’s greatest marketing tool and now there is 7.
What about BoB? 😀
Jobs designed some great products, but I can promise you that his first thought was not “How much can I make off this?” but “Will this be fun to use?”
Not to hate on teh guy so soon but this statement is EPICALLY and staggeringly unfair to the hundreds of gifted engineers and designers who slaved many years in teh bowels of Cupertino. Jobs this and Jobs that and Jobs Jobs Jobs. He deserves credit for recognizing that Jonathon Ive is a mad phucking genius, but he shouldn’t be given all teh credit for Ive’s work.
taking apart his premise of “The Apple Store is nicer than a housing project, therefore government should turn itself over to private industry.”
Sure, the new iConstitution is super snazzy, but I had to stand in line FOREVER like a REFUGEE, it’s expensive, and the whole planned obsolescence of my rights kind of bites. Plus, now I can’t run cash applications, even though that’s an international standard!
Outstanding by what metric? Second best? It’s better than XP in my experience, but it still does many weird things I don’t want it to do and the processes for getting certain things done are exceptionally irritating.
Best thing for me, though, is pinning frequently-used documents to applications in the start bar. Good work there!
Plus, people keep misunderstanding The Second App.
Jobs this and Jobs that and Jobs Jobs Jobs.
Yea, well, he was a pretty fdair designer in his own right
Obviously that was the bestest evar, because that was the one that Comic Sans was designed for. What would we possibly do without Comic Sans!?!
DON’T FORGET PAPYRUS!
[/smut-bait]
What would we possibly do without Comic Sans!?!
Use more Trebuchet.
What would we possibly do without Comic Sans!?!
Use more Trebuchet.
Or Cliffotine.
Good idea, we can throw Wall Street bankers with a Trebuchet!
There is malware for OSX, there are no viruses. None: it’s a strength of the OS itself. Back in the system 7 days there were a bunch of viruses and the market share was smaller. If you’re bright and don’t give kooky sketchy apps your password, you’re in pretty good shape.
Outstanding by what metric? Second best? It’s better than XP in my experience, but it still does many weird things I don’t want it to do and the processes for getting certain things done are exceptionally irritating.
By the metric of being stable, relatively secure, quick and easy for morons to use. It still has plenty of irritating features, I know that, but I’m plenty irritated with some of Apple’s stuff. It was a pretty strong leap forward for Microsoft.
Yes, Actor, Win7 shows a lot of signs of being OSx reverse engineered.
now who’s baiting smut?
And I agree with that too: a lot of Apple’s newer stuff is ignoring its own human interface guidelines.
What about BoB?
Not the best Bill Murray flick, but not the worst, either.
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I don’t want to detract from Jobs’ accomplishments and I’ll never dispute that Apple’s products pretty much destroy all of the competition. They are superior products–that much can’t realistically be disputed.
But:
The comparisons to Edison are pretty fucking tiresome and uninformed.
Apple did a fantastic job of convincing the world that they weren’t just another greedy and evil corporation, which may have been their biggest accomplishment.
The whole hating on Windows thing is pretty ridiculous.
As a
complete idiotcharitable guy who often volunteers to repair computers for friends and family and my company, I’ve found that at least 95% of the problems with Windows occur between the keyboard and chair. In most of those instances, simply reading the question posed in the dialog box instead of a relflexive “OK” click would have prevented the problem.And I agree with that too: a lot of Apple’s newer stuff is ignoring its own human interface guidelines.
iTunes on Windows can be very trying.
What about Bob is one of those movies I always stop to watch when I flick to it on da TV. I think it’s one of the funniest films of all time.
FTFY.
Yes. I feel very sorry for all the people that own iPods and are forced to use iTunes on Windows.
Yes. Steve Jobs did a bunch of good stuff. Without him a lot of the stuff we do with electronics would have been a lot less elegant, but it would have happened.
Mind you without Apple I wouldn’t have heard of this life-saving innovation.
The comparisons to Edison are pretty fucking tiresome and uninformed
I agree.
Edison was a lightweight compared to Jobs
There is malware for OSX, there are no viruses. None: it’s a strength of the OS itself. Back in the system 7 days there were a bunch of viruses and the market share was smaller. If you’re bright and don’t give kooky sketchy apps your password, you’re in pretty good shape.
Windows took an awful long time to figure out that security/convenience ratio needs to be a little heavier on the security side. Also, defauting to a “super user” or “administrator” status was an incredibly knuckleheaded idea. This is the beef Linux fans have with Windows, and they’re far from wrong about it.
Yea, well, he was a pretty fair designer in his own right
Uh, did you read teh article? Finicky little nitpicks praised as über-brilliant design. Yeah, awesome. Awesome that Nick Bilton could type that out with a dead guy’s cock in his mouth.
Apple’s non-disappearance was because of what Bill Amend called teh iFruit – designed by Ive. Apple’s current position is because of teh iPod – designed by Ive. Teh latest greatest revolution in consumer electronics is prompted by teh iFeminineHygieneProduct – designed by Ive. That’s probs what teh “i” stands for. Teh brilliance in design of Apple products that everyone is allupons aboot? There actually is a single person who deserves teh lion’s share of teh credit, and there is one person who still gets it even after he died.
Also too, teh engineers that made teh 1.5 inch hard-drive work for moar than ten minutes on a microscopically tiny battery. And teh marketing department. And teh thousands of disposable human cogs at Foxconn et al.
But still, just to address this legendary status as some sort of design god that has been conferred to Steve Jobs. It is mostly due to teh work of others (meaning Jonathon Ive). Reality is that, yes he was a revolutionarily gifted designer,,,for a CEO.
Edison was a lightweight compared to Jobs
Ha! Martini?
Also, the Foxconn thing is a quite an ugly stain on Apple’s face, as far as I’m concerned.
What about Bob is one of those movies I always stop to watch when I flick to it on da TV.
This is how I feel about Raising Arizona.
“Son, you got a panty on yore head!”
I dunno about teh whole “comparisons to Edison” thing – but that’s mostly because I HATE FUCKING THOMAS ALVA EDISON’S GUTS. OMG TALK ABOUT OVERRATED.
TESLA 4 LIFE!!!1!11!!
Weeeeell, I thought the NRO thing was kind of amusing…though of course not as interesting as another Windows vs. Mac discussion.
Edison was a dick.
Uh, did you read teh article? Finicky little nitpicks praised as über-brilliant design.
You sorta missed the point of that article. Good design is in the details, son. He had the vision, he let others do the grunt work
What are your feelings about cats vs. dogs?
This is how I feel about Raising Arizona.
“Son, you got a panty on yore head!”
+1. Fantastic movie.
“Well OK, then!”
Topsy met her fate through a properly constituted liberal death panel.
Outstanding by what metric?
Microsoft operating systems. Sure that’s grading on a curve, but that’s also teh grade that Admissions Departments look at.
Also, the Foxconn thing is a quite an ugly stain on Apple’s face, as far as I’m concerned.
Yea, but at least Jobs never killed an elephant.
Or murder a human.
Let me ahem myself, OBS…
I thought Edison was asked to be involved by GE(?) to be involved in the development of an electric chair and wrote back that he wanted no part in building a killing machine. Am I misunderremembering that?
I do have that wrong…
Jeepers. I did not know this stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair#Early_development
The first electric chair was produced by Harold P. Brown and Arthur Kennelly. Brown worked as an employee of Thomas Edison, hired for the purpose of researching electrocution and developing the electric chair. Kennelly, Edison’s chief engineer at the West Orange facility was assigned to work with Brown on the project.[3] Since Brown and Kennelly worked for Edison and Edison promoted their work, the development of the electric chair is often erroneously credited to Edison himself.
So much for Jobs being the only designer with unfair credit
You sorta missed the point of that article. Good design is in the details, son. He had the vision, he let others do the
gruntwork and then took all teh credit.FTFY.
Jobs “strength” as a designer was that he recognized that design was actually worth something. That’s not supposed to be a criticism, it’s a rare thing and probs teh main factor as to why Apple has managed to capitalize on their successes. I’m just put off by all these people praising him as some sort of modern day Leonardo Da Vinci, sitting at some impeccably appointed workstation and cranking out teh iPhone5 form factor. When actually he’s moar liek a modern day Thomas Alva Edison, electrocuting random animals before teh public to make sure all of North America gets stuck with some stupid fucking 110V limit on our electricabilities. Fuck.
The execution of elephants became much easier with the advent of LSD.
I’m just put off by all these people praising him as some sort of modern day Leonardo Da Vinci
Admittedly, Jobs wasn’t gay…
No no no, you’ve got it all wrong. Edison was trying to discredit Nikola Tesla, who hadn’t had a hit since Dancing in the Street and experienced only limited success with Tin Machine. Tesla eventually won the Battle of the Currents when he used his AC generator to clone/teleport Hugh Jackman’s topper and Andy Serkis’s cat.
Honestly. You people know nothing about history.
The execution of elephants became much easier with the advent of LSD.
If I ever get the death penalty, I hope these guys administer it. Of course, the bad trip thing might not be that much fun, but what the hey.
This is how I feel about Raising Arizona.
A Few Good Men gets overlooked a lot, I guess because of all the Tom Cruise hate. But I just can’t resist sitting through the climactic examination of Jack Nicholson. (Even though fuckwad TNT insists on stuffing two or three clots of commercials into it.)
Tesla eventually won the Battle of the Currents when he used his AC generator to clone/teleport Hugh Jackman’s topper and Andy Serkis’s cat.
Cool story, bro. Just not enough “Nancy Grace nip slip”.
And maybe that comment will redeem me in ZRM’s eyes for my heresy against the sacred iPod cable last thread.
that was quite a kerfuffle you started…i was almost ready to jump ship!
(Even though fuckwad TNT insists on stuffing two or three clots of commercials into it.)
And “are you funning me?”
Inside my computer there is a great Update War raging. Windows wants to do an automatic update and in the process change all my internet preferences to use the MS apps. Then iTunes wnats to do an automatic update and change all my internet preference to Apple apps. I am beginning to doubt that there are any actual software updates hppening, I certainly never seem to see any improvemnts or advancements in my use of the computer, I think they figure if they run these things by me often enough I will eventually give up on going through each time and manually setting MY preferences. Of course, the moment I decide to just not do the updates that would be the one time that there would actually be a crucial update.
kiki FTW.
(And I don’t even know who Andy Serkis is.)
Yeah, the fawning is a bit much, but just to be clear, Apple canned him, he went on to build his own new company and built essentially what is today’s Mac, IN 1990! Like many designs before their time, it wasn’t a huge success.
Then Apple totally went to shit, and in ’96 they knew they had to bring him back or die. He brought everything he did at NeXT with him, and we now have OSX and the current line of Macs. Tons of great designers (and software folks, building upon an already strong existing UNIX/Mach core) were there along the way. I think we do have to give him credit for the “vision” though.
Andy Serkis is the guy who played the New Shmoo in a recent movie trilogy.
“A Few Good Men gets overlooked a lot, I guess because of all the Tom Cruise hate. But I just can’t resist sitting through the climactic examination of Jack Nicholson. (Even though fuckwad TNT insists on stuffing two or three clots of commercials into it.)”
Yeah, I don’t always stop for it, but I’ve always eenjoyed it.
Andy Serkis is the guy who played the New Shmoo in a recent movie trilogy.
I didn’t even know the Old Shmoo was gone.
Man. Edison fucking pisses me off. You wanna know who killed teh electric car? Thomas fucking Edison. If we had 600 V AC outlets in our houses, we’d have been driving around on batteries for decades. No wait. Gimme a couple minutes and I’ll figure out a way to pin this on Jobs.
Srsly though – Nikola Tesla. Bigger impact on teh development of technology than all of Apple. Died penniless and alone.
Although in Edison’s defense, he did basically invent industrial research, so maybe Edison also had a bigger impact on teh development of technology than Apple as well.
Andy Serkis is the guy who played the New Shmoo in a recent movie trilogy
But I’ll always remember him as Ian Drury in “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”
We may have scared Fenwick off for good. He’ll finally have to get around to starting his own blog. Heh.
vs-
You might wanna empty out those milk jugs every so often……
Topsy the elephant: A means of execution initially discussed was hanging
Of course you want to get the right drop for terminal effect and I don’t think The Hangman’s Handbook includes the necessary weight / distance table.
Giraffe erotic self-asphyxiation goes wrong!
You might wanna empty out those milk jugs every so often……
I thought that was Dudeskull’s job?
I am midly surprised that actor212 is not volunteering to help.
LOL. 40 MEGAHERTZ? WE COULD RUN WORDPERFECT WITH THAT!
From the NeXT link:
Corporate directors were Steve Jobs and Ross Perot. Where have I heard that name before?
Perot, not Jobs.
My first Mac: http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-color-classic-ii.html
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I would think there might be some drawbacks to running 600VAC to every outlet. Wouldn’t that arc like crazy? Wouldn’t that lead to a lot of plugs welding themselves to sockets?
You know, Dennis and Troofie would be better contributors to this thread than an OS war.
I am midly surprised that actor212 is not volunteering to help.
She just gave birth to a parasite. You think I want to get infected?
My final Mac: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_6100
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You know, Dennis and Troofie would be better contributors to this thread than an OS war.
Concern troll is concerned.
By all means use your killfiles until it blows over. And remember!
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The NeXT machines didn’t have a desktop, an obvious and useful metaphor that remains present in Macs. Not everything Jobs wanted was smart.
Srsly though – Nikola Tesla. Bigger impact on teh development of technology than all of Apple. Died penniless and alone.
Yeah, because he had no head for business. He was the stereotypical mad scientist, living in his own world.
Wouldn’t that lead to a lot of plugs welding themselves to sockets?
See! Edison’s perfidity lives on. 600V AC is teh current NEMA standard top end, so basically – we already have 600 V AC plugs. Just that no one uses them because Edison made us all believe that AC was so deadly dangerous it had to be limited.
Cripes, if high voltage AC wasn’t afeared so badly, household service potential might have been even higher.
Also, War of 1812.
Feel free to ahem me if it’s already been posted – I didn’t see it.
So is all of this just sour grapes from the time you tried to build an aluminum smelter in your garage?
Yeah, because he had no head for business. He was the stereotypical mad scientist, living in his own world.
But what a world it was. Giant coils and death rays and never using teh same fork twice and portents of white pigeons. And what did Edison have? Mountains of money, fame and respect. Uh,,, nevermind.
So is all of this just sour grapes from the time you tried to build an aluminum smelter in your garage?
As we say about his mom, he who smelter, dealt ‘er.
Cripes, if high voltage AC wasn’t afeared so badly, household service potential might have been even higher.
Look, I don’t swing that way, I don’t care how electrifying…
Who decided on 3 phases anyway? I think the only reason we are stuck with 3 phases is the perfidy of Westinghouse! If not for his interference we could have 5, 7, 9, 11, as many as 21 phases! Who was the person who stuck us with a rational number of phases anyway? With a spiral rotor instead of a disk, it should be possible to have 3.1 phase, 3.14 phase, 3.14159 phase, as close an approximation of pi as your heart desires!
as close an approximation of pi as your heart desires
That depends. What kind of pi? Are you suggesting we could make the pi higher?
Stick alias to photos in. Burn
What?
How ’bout open libraries, drag to & drop in CD. Bingo!
Oh, sticking the alias. OK.
Tesla just sucked.
household service potential might have been even higher.
what sort of *household* *service*s are we talking about here? i may have a…need…if you know what i mean and i think you do…
Mr. chowder – motorcyclegear.com (formerly newenough) has Joe Rocket jackets for $51. I don’t need another but at that price I’m tempted to get a spare.
i may have a…need…if you know what i mean and i think you do…
Uncle BoB would go to eleven, is what he’s saying there.
what sort of *household* *service*s are we talking about here? i have a friend who may have a…need…if you know what i mean and i think you do…
yeah, that’s what i meant…
Uncle BoB would go to eleven, is what he’s saying there.
such as?
New fred.
such as?
Is he battery operated?
I’ve found that at least 95% of the problems with Windows any computer EVAR occur between the keyboard and chair.
This. Also referred to as PICNIC (problem in chair, not in computer.
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I’ll leave this fairly balanced Jobs bio (my he could be an asshole) here rather than bringing the OS war to the NEW THREAD.
And Provider — I’ve always heard it as “PEBKAC” “Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair” — but I like PICNIC, also too.
“But what a world it was. Giant coils and death rays and never using teh same fork twice and portents of white pigeons.”
And he was played by David Bowie. Game, set, match…
I wanna black panther all nite!
and father-rape all day!
I think the perception of Eastern Mass as a liberal haven is pretty exaggerated. Proud to be from the unique state of Urbane Hicks anyway.