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Re: Old Media Douchebag

Wrinkle In Time — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:09:43 -0000

That was a righteous smack-down.

Re: ChromeOS Reactions

Wrinkle In Time — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:00 -0000

Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to Matt Stocum's 2nd post, but ended up in the wrong spot. Sorry.

I get that I'm not the target market for this thing, but I'm still trying to figure out exactly who is. Maybe my grandmom, assuming I'm willing to do all of the support.

Assuming that she doesn't mind giving up a lot of valuable personal information in the process.

As John Welch points out: when you use Google's services you are not the consumer, you are the commodity. I wish more people would wake up to that fact.

I visualize Google as that big pod-forest with roboctopii helpers that farms humans for energy in The Matrix (the first one that didn't suck quite as much as the later ones).

Re: Klout...mmm...not so much

Wrinkle In Time — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:37:51 -0000

I'm the polar opposite of the Scoble-Winer-Arrington-Calcani-etc Katamari Damacy meta-entity; still more of an "asocial media" person. Services like Klout and even Twitter don't attract me as a participant. Shit, I wasn't even into IRC and IM when they were fashionable.

You're somewhere in the middle. I don't think you have built a "brand" about yourself through bynkii.com, AMB, MacWorld articles nor anything else that you have published. You have just communicated things that you wanted to share. Or vent. That's not a "brand" nor a "persona": it's part of your personality.

The thing with "brands" is that they are artificial constructs. Brands are what a company wants people to think they represent so that people buy their product or service. The moment that the published part of you (John) becomes a brand is the moment I consider you to be artificial and stop listening to you.

Here's why.

I read your work because I find it entertaining and/or informative. Part of the reason is how you write, but the other part is because I identify with a lot of what you write about (not all, that would be creepy). Like you, I am male, over 40, on this planet, atheist, disappointed in bits of humanity, frighteningly happily married, share similar socio-political values, have over 20 years experience with various bits of technology and currently an IT Director for an advertising agency. Therefore some of your work resonates with me and some of it inspires me. The rest of it is usually interesting.

I just can't get into The Donnas' music, though.

Now, "Fake John C. Welch"... that would be a brand.

Re: Bullshit

Wrinkle In Time — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:47:00 -0000

I think that Gruber and Sambells are way off the mark with this one. Quote from Sambells:

"Gestures should be treated as a language, like sign language for touch devices. We need a common set of gestures to interact with all touch enabled devices. I shouldn’t have to lean[sic] a different language just to use a different device."

Just like all other human languages are exactly the same, right? Like American Sign Language is exactly the same as British Sign Language, right?

I shouldn't have to learn another spoken language just to be functional in a different country. I shouldn't have to learn a different sign language just to be able to talk to deaf people that aren't from America. I can just shout louder, wave my arms more or pinch some part of their anatomy. It feels natural to me. It's their fault if they don't understand me.

Oh, look. It's an argument for the touch-smart-phone version of Esperanto. How very special. Let's all stand in a circle and sing Kum-By-Fucking-Yah.

To stretch the language analogy further: Apple have defined #pinch# as being the gesture for #zoom# in their dialect of the touch device gesture language. Other dialects are free to define #rotate-counter-clock-wise# or #tap-three-times# or #stick-finger-in-anus-and-sing-ave-fucking-maria# as being the gesticulatorical℠ representation of #zoom#. Apple happened to choose one that seems "natural" to some people and staked a claim to it. According to the U.S. Patent System they don't have to let the smelly tribe next door adopt that without some sort of compensation.

Og may not have made fire first, but he designed a fucking nice lighter.

Re: Incomprehensographs®!

Wrinkle In Time — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:35:37 -0000

MC Escher would be proud.

He also indicates that both the green and blue values are "unit revenue" but that the entire chart is "based on unit sales numbers, not revenue nor profit" (yellow box). The fuck?

Bonus fun: the article that this comes from includes this chart twice, along with two other Incomprehensographs®!

Re: Incomprehensographs®!

Wrinkle In Time — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:22:34 -0000

I think that you and the rest of the AMB are starting to get to Dilger. In a recent piece he dedicated several paragraphs to defending his sage-like skills.

You'll have to scroll down through something like 42 paragraphs of bumf to get to the start of it. The payoff is in para 49-ish, viz:
"And for those flacks desperately working to write me off as a hysterical fan-bot with no clue about things, consider that I have a track record better than Gartner and punditry at large..."

My cats have a track record better than Gartner and punditry at large.

Re: Rob Enderle Is a Fucking Madman

Wrinkle In Time — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:35:32 -0000

Looks like Drunk Uncle Pedo-Pundit needs an intervention.

If Apple put fur on the Magic Mouse, I seriously think Enderle would try to fuck it. I was going to write some "The Rude Pundit"-esque prose describing the event, but I'm not that talented and the images in my mind made me vomit in my mouth a little.

PS: Anyone else puzzled by the phrase "This is likely to point with Apple..."?

Re: Faux News

Wrinkle In Time — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:48:13 -0000

That's obviously a fake: all the signs are spelled correctly. ;-)

It's frightening when articles from The Onion could be mistaken for something from conventional media, let alone the GOP propaganda wing that Fucked Noise is.

I assume that you have already had fun with superimposing the cringe-making Michael Steele Flash vid from the execrable gop.com onto other sites. If not, go to hammerandsteele.com and try it out. One good site to target is republicansforrape.org .

Re: Incomprehensographs®!

Wrinkle In Time — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:43:00 -0000

"RoughlyDrafted Magazine" is an anagram for "Fear Dozenth Ugly Diagram".

Re: 100% Recycled Pixels

Wrinkle In Time — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:48 -0000

"RoughlyDrafted Magazine" is an anagram for "Fear Dozenth Ugly Diagram".

Re: Incomprehensographs®!

Wrinkle In Time — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:17:25 -0000

I think you've reached the inflection point along the curve of Grapathy.

Re: Incomprehensographs®!

Wrinkle In Time — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:44:01 -0000

tumblr.com had better invest in some more storage. You're going to need it.

Re: Why Science Wins

Wrinkle In Time — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:57:12 -0000

Science. It works, bitches.

Re: Nerd fight!

Wrinkle In Time — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:26:04 -0000

Speaking of "neglect[ing] to be insightful" Ron, you completely missed the point of what FSJ wrote about Dilger. Not just the one paragraph that you quoted, but the entire article.

Re: Angry Mac Bastards swag!

Wrinkle In Time — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:58:41 -0000

Is it an omen that all the model shots have bleached the likenesses off the front of the shirts? You guys do have perfect faces for an audio podcast. No offense to the artist, there's only so much that she can do...

I kid, with love. I am uglier, harder on the ears and less entertaining than you guys. iChat Dalekking would be an improvement for me.

However, I'm now going to go buy some coffee mugs before you decide to plaster your mugs on them.

Re: You want to throw down with me, ese? Are you loco?

Wrinkle In Time — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:09:30 -0000

"Kiss me on the lips, you fucking prince."

Classic. You are in fine form on this one.

Re: Still getting email...

Wrinkle In Time — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:29:21 -0000

Jesus fuck, what a nut-case.

Oh, and Mr. Casasanta, since you are reading this -- and I think it's obvious that you hungrily seek out everything that mentions your name* -- if John Welch hadn't mentioned you, I wouldn't have known that you existed. I think that was happier then.

* Let's call it the douche-signal. It's on a wavelength that people with normal brain chemistry can't detect.

PS: Wow, I started writing my post before the schizoid ranting above appeared. The crazy is strong with this one. By the way, who is the "we" that he talks about? Other personalities?

Re: Logic Isn’t His Strong Suit

Wrinkle In Time — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:39:31 -0000

Bravo! But I think that you were too gentle on him.

Although you mentioned that Dilger uses sockpuppets, you didn't point out that he defended that very article in the AppleInsider forums using one of his favourite handles "Andrew Levi Black". Of course he did this without disclosing that he is also Dilger/MacClean (amongst other names). Dude needs to sack up.

Tip o' the Sockpuppet Radar to Ian Betteridge at http://www.technovia.co.uk/ for the "Andrew Levi Black" lead and having called out Dilger's authorial cowardice years ago.

By the way, did you know that the same web server hosts appleinsider.com, roughlydrafted.com and bits of macnn.com? Check out http://www.robtex.com/ip/20... This is not your typical shared hosting arrangement: the IP block 207.58.150.160 - 207.58.150.191 is assigned to MacNN http://legacytools.dnsstuff...

I think that there is more to this incestuous relationship than meets the eye.

Re: Dildo has issues

Wrinkle In Time — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:17 -0000

Looks like Mr. I.T. Consultant Dilger let his roughlydrafted.com domain expire. I just went there and got a generic GoDaddy page. The whois info shows that the domain was updated today.

I wonder if he exclaimed "Oh Gosh!" when that happened or put a sock on his left hand and had that curse up a blue streak for him.

Re: Douchebags fondly eviscerated

Wrinkle In Time — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:52:48 -0000

Wow, he really is a recidivist sockpuppeter, isn't he? You inspired me to look for other examples. I think I found one.

There's a poster on reddit.com who has submitted nothing but articles from roughlydrafted.com and one from appleinsider.com (guess who wrote it). The poster's name is InCider (how obvious). This person's posted comments also touch on a lot of the same themes that Dilger does.

What's really amusing is that InCider has quite the potty mouth. My, my! Bring the smelling salts, Ima headin' for the couch.

PS: To anyone who thinks I'm being hypocritical by posting this under a pseudonym, that is different than sockpuppetting.

Re: Douchebags fondly eviscerated

Wrinkle In Time — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:56:25 -0000

So, Apple Canada does a Snow Leopard Server presentation for a bunch of us two weeks ago. When they got to the point where they had to mention webmail, the SE embarrassedly flashed up the SquirrelMail login page and made some comment about being stuck in the 1990's before moving on to the next topic.

I was interested to see how mature 10.6 Server's mail/calendar/contact features are, but was singularly unimpressed. OK, it's a .0 release. We are happily running Kerio Mail Server on OS X and I can testify to how mature a product it is. Our infrastructure is almost entirely Mac-based, so MS Exchange server and MS Outlook clients are not an issue for us.

Thank the fuck.

One very minor point in Dilger's favour: he seems to have stopped writing AppleInsider articles under his sock-puppet-porn-name "Prince MacLean" (which sounds like a genital-rectal piercing).

Re: It's that time of year

Wrinkle In Time — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:13:07 -0000

I see a lot of condescension in this discussion, just not where you see it, peterme.

My comment probably just sailed over your head like the semen of anonymous strangers. I would invite you to eat a bag of dicks, but I fear it would be too late.

What I just wrote isn't condescension, it's pity. Not pity for the cock gobbling, just pity for the ignorance. If only you (and Manjoo and rvcx) would shut your mouth and open your ears for once.