i didn't mean "science guy" derisively, i meant it as "strict utilitarian."
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think so, hoos, i think you're confusing me with a strict rationalist
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
no, a strict rationalist wouldn't call philosophy "self-indulgent."
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
iPad as the signature moment in a brilliant career
The Shins Will Change Your Life
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not Apple, where sacred cows are ground up and served for lunch as standard operating procedure.
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
sick company, brah!
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/25/0811-steve-jobs.jpg
do you remember how zoolander had names for his faces
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
possible translation: the ipad and devices like it have produced computing's equivalent of philosophy or comp lit: an expensive, self-indulgent diversion
ah, yes, philosophy, that notably expensive exercise
― Euler, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
A legacy with no equal.
A sentence with no verb.
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
ah, yes, philosophy college, that notably expensive exercise
I too long for the dark ages, don't get me wrong
― Euler, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
We make things that are easy to use, fun to use
i am picturing derrida saying this
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
or possibly someone who designs learning resources for stupid kids
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
who's beefin and why
― dayo, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
i'm beefin against SOCIETY
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
maaaaaaan
http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/images/paperclip_shuttle.gif
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
i am beefin in honor of tombot, and jon williams and nude spock before them
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
*LOLs furiosly*
that's the best thing i've seen all week
Ponder for a moment the predecessor to the Apple Store, CompUSA, and what that experience was like versus the new bar for customer service being set by Apple.
but really i think this is the pivotal sentence for me
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
what i am getting at is that in general, people can tell the difference between an article on lee iacocca and an article on john galliano, an article on jay z and an article on warren buffet. i think that steve jobs sort of muddles all of those parts together, and what disturbs me is the uncritical celebration of all of them equally, as if they're all the same thing.
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
the worst part about that sentence is that it is terribly written
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think there's an equivalency happening, the suggestion in these let's-call-them obits is that he was an impressive polymath.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
ronin who never had a true master, so he had to create his own
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Saturday, 27 August 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
the worst part of that sentence is the idea that america has become the world leader in "customer service"
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
how do you export customer service, i ask you
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 27 August 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
how is a predecessor an experience? why is an experience being compared to "[a] new bar of customer service"? why is that bar "being set" instead of having just been "set" already? how does anyone use the word "ponder," ever, and still take themselves seriously as a person that uses words*? i ask you.
*apologies to ned raggett here, obv
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Saturday, 27 August 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
If you ask me, anything beneath Assembly is pandering to stupid idiot consumers. j/k
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 29 August 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/TtWYF.jpg
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
btw congratulate my wife on her new MBP
congrats, mrs. p3rry!
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
eve pwned
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
Can't people just learn to get along? Even the 800 year old busted robot ended up with the love of his life.
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
At CompUSA I picked up something I wanted, carried it to the register, paid and walked out.
At an Apple Store, I fight for space with a crowd of yuppies and yuppie-children, try to flag down a lackey for service, evade them trying to sell me anything, tell them what I want, wait for them to go find one, then wait for them to make their handheld register work and finally get to pay and leave.
Fuck Apple Stores, IMO.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Milo Z? the band?
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like your Apple Store sucks, man.
I usually walk over directly to what I need, some drone asks if I need something, and I yell "SCAN THIS HERE'S MY CARD MY EMAIL IS (my email) THANK YOU SIR!"
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
sooo.. iTunes Match is in beta
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
"some drone"? it would be interesting to know what the "drones" make of your robotic all-caps sgt. major dickface schtick, mh
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:50 (twelve years ago) link
whatever they would make of it, it would be in a tasteful font and elegantly designed
― davon cuul II (m bison), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
easy tiger
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
I AM DRONE-MAN, HEAR ME ROAR
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
Meantime, turns out iTunes Match *does* allow for streaming:
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/29/itunes-match-allows-both-streaming-and-downloading-of-music/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
so this is basically Spotify for ppl with no friends?
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
(obv ignoring the file uploading)
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
so this is basically Spotify for ppl with no friends?― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 13:48
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 13:48
*signs up*
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
recently I seem to have become spotify santa as I keep getting all these "invitation tokens"
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
spotify for ppl that hate ads?
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link