indefensible: john gruber

lol

Gruber's structurally valid Jobs obit:

After the WWDC keynote four months ago, I saw Steve, up close.

He looked old. Not old in a way that could be measured in years or even decades, but impossibly old. Not tired, but weary; not ill or unwell, but rather, somehow, ancient. But not his eyes. His eyes were young and bright, their weapons-grade intensity intact. His sweater was well-worn, his jeans frayed at the cuffs.

But the thing that struck me were his shoes, those famous gray New Balance 991s. They too were well-worn. But also this: fresh bright green grass stains all over the heels.

Those grass stains filled my mind with questions. How did he get them? When? They looked fresh, two, three days old, at the most. Apple keynote preparation is notoriously and unsurprisingly intense. But not so intense, those stains suggested, as to consume the entirety of Jobs’s days. There is no grass in Moscone West.

Surely, my mind raced, surely he has more than one pair of those shoes. He could afford to buy the factory that made them. Why wear this grass-stained pair for the keynote, a rare and immeasurably high-profile public appearance? My guess: he didn’t notice, didn’t care. One of Jobs’s many gifts was that he knew what to give a shit about. He knew how to focus and prioritize his time and attention. Grass stains on his sneakers didn’t make the cut.

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Late last night, long hours after the news broke that he was gone, my thoughts returned to those grass stains on his shoes back in June. I realize only now why they caught my eye. Those grass stained sneakers were the product of limited time, well spent. And so the story I’ve told myself is this:

I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve made time for a long, peaceful walk. Somewhere beautiful, where there are no footpaths and the grass grows thick. Hand-in-hand with his wife and family, the sun warm on their backs, smiles on their faces, love in their hearts, at peace with their fate.

His enduring, long-lasting legacy: that Gruber no longer has to pay for an SMS plan.

this blog is a diff color rite now

did he go to dark gray in mourning

hard to read bro

really on a roll with the glib, breathtakingly thick, arrogant posts at the moment! go john!

Most revealing line of his 4S review:

I asked for and received a Sprint model from Apple for testing, so that I could compare it against AT&T and Verizon.

I'd assume (hope) that he returned it when done?

I love how Baig, Pogue, and Mossberg get review units before everyone else, and race to publish their reviews. Where by “love” I of course mean “hate”.

I’m not sure why this has erupted into such a little blog publishing world scandal. It’s certainly wrong for someone to accept one of these machines and then write about it without disclosing that it was a gift (or a review unit, or whatever you want to call it), but I don’t get why some people are so up in arms about Microsoft giving them out in the first place.

tbf i think 'Where by “love” I of course mean “hate”.' is a horribly formed joke about jealousy, rather than him thinking it is wrong in principle to review stuff you haven't bought.

don't get me wrong though, he's still a terrible person.

Grubes has stated multiple times that he always returns his review units.

http://twitter.com/AmyJane/status/128319587161882624

haha

https://twitter.com/#!/AmyJane/status/124281963875024896

oh man

indefensible or not, the more he descends into (unintentional) self-parody, the more entertaining I find him

October 20th:

The fields aren’t new, but their usefulness for Siri is.

October 24th:

Yeah, seems like a nice idea to use these fields to aid Siri, but it’s not what they’re there for.

damning, just damning

this post i feel like is top level gruber self regard http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/26/human-rationality

whoa

i dont even

wait, who actually believes that humans are rational thinking machines...?

1. economists
2. other people
3. jon gruber (himself only, not the other humans)

Daniel Kahneman is p interesting, was just looking to see if he was on twitter before i found that gruber post

Think this is a good thread for these guys:

http://www.marco.org/2011/10/27/double-dipping-ads-in-ipad-magazines
http://brooksreview.net/2011/10/grannell-magazines/

Enjoy your $100 per issue magazine subscriptions, everyone.

sheesh

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/09/get-to-work

lol

yeah grubbie's on a roll with this flash news

Nothing further to say on the matter.

to be fair, they don't really use quicktime for non-video content anymore!

http://vimeo.com/31926572

YAY!!!

. . .

YAY!!!

he doesn't know what the word "disinterested" means

btw i love john siracusa

otm

people who do apple podcasts really don't know how to speak, eh

which podcasts are you referring to yo

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42

loved that episode and he totally knows how to speak tbh!!!

Congratulations to the Tories.

lol

this is the first interesting point i've seen him make in about 6 months http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/14/microsoft-admosphere

It's like Roger Ebert posting about how he's just noticed that 20th Century Fox in is competion with Warner Bros.

i wasn't being sarcastic, i think it's actually a good observation.

May sound funny coming from a typography-obsessive whose website has

lolll armchair typographer gruber is still my favorite

Truly funny spoof from College Humor.

★

It has been approved, it is objectively funny

hahaha