indefensible: john gruber

o god grubes u sanctimonious prick get that logo off yr site

wonder if he had the express written permission of Major League Baseball

lawsuit

let's make a citizens' arrest

where's gruber?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/8666761437/in/set-72157633287874607/lightbox/

back right, looking like he could use a benadryl

you found him! ok now everyone else. http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/276914_206566229429_1484857798_q.jpg

wait, i guess you don't need to find him now that you know where he is.

ha yeah sorry

now find the startup ceo with an oversized t shirt, oh wait

xpost np

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/8667025960/in/set-72157633287874607/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/8667026542/in/set-72157633287874607/

marco on phish

If you’ll permit a pretty rough analogy, imagine a world in which the vast majority of published fiction was in the form of 3,000-word short stories, and most people had never read anything longer. Phish is the one outlier publishing novels, and they’re pretty weird, complex novels. No effort to condense such novels into bite-sized short stories will truly capture the appeal.

ahahahhahaa oh sure

http://www.earwolf.com/show/analyze-phish/

marco's Intro to Phish is pretty cringeworthy too: http://www.marco.org/2011/05/26/geek-intro-to-phish

i enjoy gruber's writing on daring fireball because his insufferability is part of the weird charm. i have great friends i consider insufferable assholes because i enjoy the *style* with which they are insufferable.

gruber should never podcast, because then he's all insufferable and no style. the talk show since the move to mule is awful imo.

but i always thought dan was the best part of the talk show anyway.

are you saying grubes is cool cause man i got news for you, he is not cool

the fact that a phish fan is much, much wealthier than me will gall me to my dying day.

haha you can't be an insufferable defender of the biggest company on earth who makes hundreds of thousands a year by linking to other people's writing and complaining about star wars and still qualify as cool, i agree

and by the biggest company on earth i mean phish

what a strange way to approach music.

phish food makes bank dogg

i agree that his kind-of-terrible "character" is part of the appeal kinda like marc maron

RIP Read & Trust

how will we know who to read and trust?

i am adrift

imagine being the kind of person who actually paid for that shit

lmao @ "I still managed to push almost as much cash into the hands of fantastic writers as the large Readability effort did over the course of its run."

dont know who to read
dont know who to trust

lmao @ "I still managed to push almost as much cash into the hands of fantastic writers as the large Readability effort did over the course of its run."

― caek, Monday, April 29, 2013 7:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why lmao, idgi

they mailed out cheques for like 8 cents.

not quite gruber but basically the worst thing i've seen all year

http://www.marco.org/2013/05/03/tshirt

45 out of 50 already claimed what the hell

wait isn't this the guy you all told me was better than gruber?

'better than gruber' isn't exactly an accomplishment

who is good then? Nobody? Can I become the best apple blogger by simply never having heard phish or crowdsourced a tshirt?

http://hypercritical.co/

caek would agree with me if he were here right now

although i like gruber and marco too

i like all three of them

http://hypercritical.co/2013/05/03/beauty-truth-and-jony-ive

Tha

feel so bad for anyone who buys a gruber or marco.org tshirt, god help you

what about https://twitter.com/hypercritical/status/330534382119034880

im honestly mystified and horrified

nerd need to learn to respect their bodies

just in time for wwdc! http://teespring.com/ilx0r

based on the sales estimates on the teespring dashboard, marco's tee will net him at least $385, hypercritical will get at least $2000 jesus