Just finished recording this week’s MacBreak Weekly which was a blast. Probably won’t be up until tomorrow, though.
The Macalope is very pleased that he was able to work in the phrase “strangely homoerotic”, but Merlin’s description of the disturbing Jerry Lewis movie that never got made is going to keep him up all night.
The Macalope has received many, many requests for full RSS feeds. He has heard your cries and at long last he is able to say “Let them eat text!”
With this post, the RSS feed should contain the entire text of the post.
The Macalope is also working on putting some hopefully tasteful and Mac-oriented (is that redundant?) text ads into the feed (there’s no such thing as a free lunch) so if they don’t appear with this post, they should appear soon.
Oh, and the links have been changed to more readable descriptive links (but the old ones should still work).
The Macalope will likely be laying low this week. Please talk amongst yourselves.
The iPod is not the first in-car system to feature music that can’t be played on another device.
That limited availability – which also meant you could only listen to artists under contract with Columbia – was part of the problem with the option, which died at the end of the model year.
Well, the Macalope probably can’t get away without putting some of his velvety hide in the game, so here goes.
And to raise the ante, something he hasn’t seen reported anywhere else.
The Macalope didn’t entirely pull that one out of his rump, but it’s not based on a whole lot.
21 hours.
It’s almost 2007 for crying out loud!
At any rate, Bill Bumgarner has tagged the Macalope (apparently a week ago) with the “Five things you don’t know about me” thing.
This may have been last Friday’s five but according to iCal it’s Friday again, so let it ride!
While it’s a pain in the ass to type with hooves, it does mean that the Macalope is immune to carpal tunnel syndrome, as his “forearms” are made up with several phalanx bones that…
Well, it’s complicated. Suffice it to say you won’t be seeing the Macalope wearing one of those wrist thingies.
The Macalope once nailed Carly Fiorina.
It was nothing to write home about.
The Macalope brews his own beer using a recipe taught to him by Dionysus himself. The secret ingredient? The dewy nectar that forms on Scarlett Johansson’s brow when she does hot yoga.
Which is redundant as any yoga Ms. Johansson does is, by definition, hot yoga.
Favorite Dr. Seuss character: Horton.
You’d be surprised at how many people say Marvin K. Mooney. It’s weird.
Happy New Year!
Wow, there’s been quite a bit of general silliness in the breathless reporting of Apple’s options issues in the past 48 hours.
Here’s a hapless ZDNet headline writer apparently mistakenly thinking the Financial Times had broken the news that Jobs had traded his options in (that’s been know for years).
Meanwhile Michael Gartenberg at Jupiter Research agreed to be interviewed on the subject under the condition he not be asked for a legal opinion or how these reports would affect Apple’s share price.
Guess what the first two questions were.
Many, many stories said that Apple’s board had not approved the granting of the options. That’s actually not known. The Financial Times report appears to be saying that the options were reported as having been approved at a board meeting that either didn’t happen or where the options were not discussed. It’s still possible that the individual board members were aware of the grant and approved it. Apple still would have violated the law, but it changes the nature of the intent.
The San Jose Mercury News has all kinds of wild speculation from legal experts on how the news of the forged documents points to criminal intent and how Steve Jobs is a great target for a prosecutor “eager to show that no executive is above the law.”
Hey, even the Macalope got in on it, speculating that the Republican SEC chairman would be tempted to go after Apple because Gore is on the board.
Ha-ha! What an idiot!
Heyyy, wait a minute…
It’s been a few days since the Macalope’s last post, so he thought he’d test the ol’ blog and make sure it’s still working.
The Macalope wishes he could post all the time, but his day job is really demanding.
What is the Macalope’s day job?
Why, delivering Macs and iPods to all the good little boys and girls throughout the world.
A lot of people think that’s done by Airborne Express or FedEx. That’s only because the Macalope works in strange and wondrous ways. Anyone who’s eagerly awaited the delivery of a new PowerBook or iMac or video iPod knows there are deep magical and spiritual forces at work, forces far beyond the ken of some guy in a brown shirt and shorts with a wireless punch pad and a name tag that says “Larry.”
But it’s hard work figuring out of someone deserves an Apple product or not. Just the other day, for example, you may have read that the Macalope was forced to deliver a bar of soap instead of an iPod. This was, quite simply, because the buyer was being a bit of a pill around his friends and family. It was a tough call, but someone’s got to make it.
Anyway, hopefully someone will post something stupid tomorrow and the Macalope will have something to write about. Keep your fingers crossed!
…evolve or face extinction (Link – January, 2005: “More realistically though, the company will have to give in and include Microsoft wma audio support on future revisions of its products.”)
…build a MusicPhone (Link – 2006: “Microsoft has strong assets it could deploy in musicphones if it marshaled those resources intelligently. Instead, it appears that Microsoft is chasing after the wrong iPod – today’s nano and iPod, rather than the upcoming iPodphone.”)
…act like it’s 1984 all over again (Link – Great advice! Thanks! Note to self: buy thin ties…).
…entice developers to write exciting programs for Rhapsody right now (Link – 1997).
…abandon multimedia playback and adopt inferior Microsoft technologies (Link – 1998, Avie Tevanian’s testimony on Microsoft’s demands in the Department of Justice monopoly investigation).
…immediately acknowledge and address the manufacturing defect on the LCD screens of its Powerbook G4 laptops (Link).
…make its OS X compatible with non-proprietary PC hardware (Link).
…switch to Windows (Link – 2006 Crazy Apple Rumors story with a link to the original that was apparently so bad it was taken down).
…encourage cloning because without a successful clone market there will be fewer reasons to develop for the Apple platform (Link – September, 1997 final exams from a Berkeley class in Strategic Computing and Communications Technology).
…enable Rhapsody so that it supports the Windows interface and applications (same as above).
…take all out efforts to ensure the creation of a cross-platform system architecture, called CHRP (same as above).
…drool thinking about the other 95 percent of the market—the part it doesn’t own (Link – 2003: Dvorak predicts that in 2004, Apple will offer “another version of the OS for the plain x86 family, selling that version directly to any OEM (Dell, HP, IBM, and others) for bundling.” Homer to Marge: “Don’t you get tired of being wrong all the time?”).
…save big felines (Link).
Apple making a push into the enterprise?