indefensible: john gruber

hey guys i saw you all on foursquare checking in here. hey wheres the drinks at. hey where are you all going. hey wait up

乒乓 you know you get to choose what you check into and when, rite

i dont get why foursquare has to be 'social'

rip paypal?

http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/

wish i had foursquare when i lived above a restaurant cause then i so wouldve been the mayor of that shit forever

hahaha

it goes 'your friend checks in here a lot so it's probably your thing' xp to 乒乓

paypal counters by now accepting bitcoins

it goes 'your friend checks in here a lot so it's probably your thing' xp to 乒乓

― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

thats pretty obnoxious i have much better taste than my friends

you can set it so it says 'your friend checks in here a lot so it's probably not your thing'

aaaaaaaahhhh now i understand *installs foursquare on my iPhone 5*

this is sort of random, but for example fucking livejournal was and is super easy to make fun of, but for the second half of my senior year of high school and my first year in college, it was actually a super profound service, because it let my friends and i write shit about our lives that only we'd see (via "friends only" posts), and it sort of enabled us to connect in a weird intimate way as a little group. that doesn't happen on facebook. that doesn't happen on tumblr. or at least not for me, not now. but for the time we were all on there it was something really neat, in retrospect.

not that foursquare enables anything useful, but maybe it does for someone.

it's not something i'm interested in using, personally

livejournal was cool i had a livejournal, in fact still do

lj was completely virtual tho, and anonymous (if u chose it), its the intersection of the virtual world and the real world that is gonna bring up some creepy and perhaps unexpectedly creepy situations and scenarios, a la foursquare

facebook in its early days enabled some crazy shit

how do i get linkedin to stop sending me emails?

im gonna tape my phone to a drone and check in all over town

not that foursquare enables anything useful, but maybe it does for someone.

― markers, Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I did the autojournal thing, so i use foursquare disconnected from all social media mainly to note in my journal when i go somewhere interesting.

like, i can tell you that the only time you need to pay attention to jim dalrymple is when he does one of his "yep" or "nope" posts

Those one word yeps come off as so fucking haughty. Like "I will deign to address your rumour, but you shall get naught but one word from me, for I am so very important and my word shall be the final one on the subject." Ugh.

(even more annoying b/c like markers said he's normally right, which builds even more of a weird cult of personality around this dude who is basically a lonely beard just thinking baout angus young)

I am starting to merge all these jokers in my head into one guy w/suspenders frustrated with his suboptimal coffee experience.

The Verge is far and away the best of a terrible lot, but even then the writing isn't a patch on even Wired in its heyday.

i just totally did something at a place and forgot to check in on foursquare

eugh

http://brooksreview.net/2013/05/fucking-dogs/

tbh I also don't like dogs, but I don't blog about it on a blog people have to pay for

Gruber and his ilk's smug self-satisfaction and complete lack of self-awareness make me more guilty about using Apple products than basically anything else.

Also, I hope Ben Brooks gets mobbed by dogs everyday for the rest of his life.

excited to see gruber cover the tax stuff with the diligence he covered foxconn

You mean "here's Apple's opening statement?"

yes, it's "an interesting read"

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/21/senate-hearing

ohhhh boy.

looooooooool

oh my

oh jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YQXDQeKDlM

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/21/mccain

us republicans hating change, whodathunk

McCain's joke-writers in fine form

John Siracusa ‏@siracusa 32m
No cardboard sleeve on the Ponyo blu-ray. Upsetting.

…

literally upset that the box his optical media disc came in doesn't have an extra piece of trash on the outside

upsetting

like, I dunno, reports of moderately-sized national disasters in distant states, or finding out that someone has been talking shit about you

sorry but i don't have time for people who dislike him

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336863716408705024

eh, I've said hyperbolic stuff on twitter too

siracusa's OS X writeups for Ars Technica obviously all classic, I just wanted to dump some mock rage on the internet

ya siracusa is one of the better tech writers for sure i just thought that tweet was funny

sorry but i don't have time for people who dislike him

― markers, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just want to dwell for a moment on what an amazing sentence this is

*dwells* d(-_-)b