I was lucky enough to be interviewed several weeks ago for this upcoming documentary (and, if they’re as smart as they seemed, I’ll get left on the editing room floor with the footage of Rob Enderle). Now you can now check out the trailer on You Tube.
The filmmakers are Mac users (aren’t all filmmakers?) and seemed really genuine in their desire to accurately portray the Mac-using community. Looks like good stuff.
Could be an odd week ahead what with iPhone fee-vah hitting a fee-vah pitch, so expect several posting irregularities (’cause I had the bean dip, if you know what I mean! Ha-ha!), as we may be forced to self-medicate to contain our excitement.
And, well, speaking of pitching, we’re going to Wednesday’s Mariners/Red Sox day game to see Dice-K pitch against Not Felix.
And, in this case, it’s Baek so it’s someone really not Felix.
But if you’re in desperate need of solid technology news you can always go to Fake Phil Schiller.
Or Fake Rob Enderle.
Or…
Uh, fake me.
Ahem.
Anyone want to take responsibility for that last one?
Anyone?
Hmm?
Nope?
Didn’t think so.
Masako had to delete the WordPress users. So, if you set one up, it’s gone. Please try to pick up the shattered pieces of your life and move on. Membership really does not bring rewards anyway.
It’s money that brings rewards. And each one of those user IDs cost us $4,500.
It’s true.
Post coming later.
Well, I’ve managed to pull together a budget that – with a little luck, some change we found in the couch and performing a few sexual acts we might not be proud of (well, OK, pride’s not really going to factor into it) – I calculate will keep us solvent through…
…uh, about 2:15 PM PST tomorrow afternoon.
Jeez, I just never realized we operated on such an efficient implementation of the Japanese just-in-time model.
I also never realized that the Japanese were talking about inventory and not cash. Suddenly makes a lot more sense.
All those Cs in business school also make a lot more sense.
It’s a little annoying to see other blogs get book deals and sweet gigs at places we probably wouldn’t be allowed to use the bathroom while we have to scrape (literally – we did a lot of scraping this afternoon) to get by.
But maybe it’s partly my fault for taking the high road with those Darling Furball t-shirts and deciding not to make a profit off them.
We sold 18,000 of those suckers.
Exactly. And what’s even weirder is that 17,000 were extra large while the rest were double extra large.
Well, maybe that’s not so weird.
But I’ll tell you what is weird. Rattling around in this office without the… well… thing… that put it all together in the first place.
And I see that OS X 10.4.10 was released today.
[sniff]
The Entity would have wanted to be here to see that.
He loved palindromes.
Well, anyway, we’ve just decided to keep writing until we max out Chet’s parents’ credit card.
Why a 35-year-old has his parents’ credit card is beyond me but at this point I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
I am taking the gift horse back, though. I mean, that’s just an extravagance we can’t afford right now.
I regret to inform Crazy Apple Rumors Site readers that at exactly 6:15 PM PST tonight – as he predicted three years ago would happen – the Entity achieved complete particle singularity and was accelerated out of this plane of existence to an unknown destination.
He was 43.
That’s revolutions around the galactic core. Not years.
Now, it might seem like he does that kind of thing all the time, so what’s the big deal? It’s not like he’s dead. He can’t die. He’s pure energy.
And that was my attitude until I asked the guy at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories “OK, so, when is he going to be back?” And the dude acted like I was some kind of idiot. He was really kind of a dick about it.
“Ha-ha! He’s not coming back! He’s achieved particle singularity! You don’t come back from that! Ha-ha! ‘Come back’! Hey, Larry, did you hear that? What a maroon!”
Uh, well, excuse me, jackwad. Maybe you could be a little less of a dill hole because I just just lost my boss and my friend. Not to mention my meal ticket.
He also functioned as a night light. All glowy all the time.
And – and I know we probably shouldn’t have – but you could use him as a soldering iron. And a bug zapper.
And one time – oh, my god, this was so funny – we used him to make fajitas. We were so drunk.
And another time we hooked him up to a Power Mac and used him as a scanner.
Oh, and he could read floppy disks.
And…
Anyway, the Enity’s sudden departure has left us in something of an uncomfortable position financially.
‘Cause, uh, he had the check book.
Actually had the pen, too, now that I think about it.
It’s not like we’re broke or anything, but there are at least going to have to be some cutbacks. For starters, no more hosted bar for the Help Desk. And Ugluk is not going to continue to expense his clubs. And Thor’s going to downgrade his company car from a Lamborghini to a Porsche.
More immediately, as a cost-cutting measure, the staff and I have agreed to the next week off without pay, during which I’ll try to put together a budget. Maybe we’ll do a bake sale.
Or rob a bank. Do people still rob banks? It’s all hacking these days.
I just can’t believe the guy’s gone. I keep expecting him to float in here, blurt out a couple of nonsensical phrases and then eat all the Baked Lays out of the vending machine.
Now there’s just that big burn mark he left on the wall over his desk from all the radiation pouring out from his hood.
Which, incidentally, makes me really reluctant to cut back on the employee medical coverage.
Well… see you next Wednesday.
I think.