Blog Notes: OK, Now I’m Gone

I stayed at the PC monitoring the blog stats. I wanted to see if it’d make a record.

It did.

Now I’m gone for the day because WordPress still has JPG indigestion, dammit.

Go hurt each other. But still — no killing.

David Bamford Offers Vacation Advice

Oh my god. He is back and he is in his best funny form.

Travel review: Fucking IBIZA [blog dead]

Go read! And click on the embedded YouTube vid too!

Blog Notes: Record Traffic Day

Fake Fake Steve Jobs has the mojo cubed!

His one blog alone set a traffic record here. All time high.

And. It’s. Still. Going.

Super ultra ne plus ultra Namaste, FFSJ!

Blog Notes: No Pictures For Me!

Ah, you see there are few posts today!

That’s because WordPress is apparently having the vapors yet again.

I can upload JPGs just fine, but when it comes to WordPress displaying them, I get Feh!

So, I am leaving the PC for the day.

Fight amongst yourselves. But no killing!

Tomorrow’s iPod: The Beginning Of Bliss?

There are many rumors floating around the Net about tomorrow’s (September 5, 2007) anticipated iPod announcement.

A CNet article focuses on the new beast containing the soul of OS X:

It also seems very likely that those new iPods will run the same stripped-down version of Mac OS X found on the iPhone, something even Jobs himself hinted at during a meeting with Apple employees on the eve of the iPhone launch.

You don’t need a sophisticated operating system to play songs and TV shows, so at that point, the iPod stops being just a gadget. So, then, what exactly is it? Like the iPhone, it becomes something in between a gadget and a PC, which has been treacherous ground for the PC industry.

It almost becomes what we have been waiting for: a pocketable Mac.

I say almost because we’re still lacking the critical component that would make it so: an SDK that will allow programmers to go wild.

What if that turns out to be part of tomorrow’s announcement?

What if all along Apple has been waiting to drop that in the lap of AT&T?

January 2007 Steve Jobs: “Yes, AT&T, we will only allow people to run web apps. Must protect your network.”

September 2007 Steve Jobs: “Today we are also announcing One More Thing: Today, we are turning the iPod into Apple’s newest platform. We are releasing an SDK for free on our website. Oh, and there’s another One More Thing. All apps written for the new iPod will also run on our iPhone.”

That would be the Big Bang of Bliss. I’ve been waiting for an SDK. I want someone to develop a text editor or HTML editor for the iPhone. I want someone to create an iPhone version of Photo Toolkit. I want someone to get in there and make it possible for the iPhone to work with a Bluetooth keyboard (like mine!).

It would make the iPhone my mobile blogging device.

I can tell you an SDK announcement would have immediate effect on me. I’d stop wondering about Palm’s Foleo completely. And so would many other people.

Fake Fake Steve Jobs Still Has Mojo

Christ! It’s staggering, the amount of traffic being sent here from his blog! He’s exceeded what MacSurfer sent over — by twice!

Oh Jesus! Fake Steve Jobs Is Wooing Me!

Not only does he link to my Fable post, but he comes up with a variant on my name no one has ever used before!

Mike “Hurra” Cane

Namaste, Fake Fake Steve. Or something. Whatever.

I Wish I Thought Of That!

Don’t ask why, but I went to Fake Steve’s blog and saw this brilliant neologism in a post:

motherzucker

Fake Steve Jobs is still dead to me, though. Apparently, there is a real ghost ghost-writing it now.

Previously in this blog: (Zucker)
By The Book: Jeff Zucker Vs. Steve Jobs
Jeff Zucker: Like Dubya, Only Worse
Newsflash! Jeff Zucker Buys Condo From Dick Morris!
Jeff Zucker: He Don’t Do Emo
Jff Zukr: Ur No Gneeiz No
Quote Of The Day: Jobs Rulz, Gates Luz
A Post-iTunes Fable For NBC
Should Apple Turn iTunes Into A Platform?

Previously in this blog: (Fake Steve Jobs)
Blogroll: Fake Steve Jobs Deleted
And So The Long Knives Start To Come Out…
The Betrayal Of Fake Steve Jobs: Daniel Lyons, You Suck!
The Betrayal Of Fake Steve Jobs: Brad Stone, You Suck!
Quotes Of The Day: Bastard Of The Year Edition
The Irony. The Irony, I Say!!
Fake Steve Jobs Is Dead. Sit Shiva With Me!
Bastard Of The Year
Why Fake Steve Jobs Is The Only Living God On The Internet (Kneel!)
I Am Fake Steve Jobs
Who The Fuck Is This Dickhead?
I Must Start The Day With Thanks
OMG! FSJ Likes Me! He Really Likes Me!
Quote Of The Day: Fake Steve Jobs
Mucho Namaste To FSJ!
FSJ Has Guts Like RSJ
FSJ Gives Today’s Outrageously Funny Bellylaugh!
FSJ Provides Today’s Two Laughs
If FSJ Says It, Then It Is So!
Blogroll Additions: FSJ and Utube Blog
Fake Steve Jobs Does Real Blog

It’s All About Noticing Things

Pay attention. This is important. Very.

‘You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae,’ I [Watson] remarked.

‘I appreciate their importance. [. . .]’ [Holmes said.]
— The Sign of the Four, Chapter 1, The Science of Deduction, pg. 7

‘lt is my business to know things. That is my trade.’ [Holmes replied.]
— The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes; The Blanched Soldier, pg. 165

From the DUH! School of Intellectualism comes this:

Study links attention problems to early TV viewing

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Watching television more than two hours a day early in life can lead to attention problems later in adolescence, according to a study released on Tuesday.

The roughly 40 percent increase in attention problems among heavy TV viewers was observed in both boys and girls, and was independent of whether a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder was made prior to adolescence.

The link was established by a long-term study of the habits and behaviors of more than 1,000 children born in Dunedin, New Zealand, between April 1972 and March 1973.

There you are as a kid, merrily sucking at what Harlan Ellison rightly termed the Glass Teat, being stimulated at a pace that no human being could ever sustain, in an entertaining manner than no single human being could accomplish. It’s like being on a fun ride at high speed.

Then comes school.

Which goes at the pace of human beings.

The contrast is like going from that zooming fun ride to being sick in bed miserable with the flu.

And it takes them til now to notice that?! I understood that as a frikkin kid in elementary school. Which is why I was a rotten student (the fact that things were taught without showing their connection to real life was at least half the problem too). School, when compared to TV, was boring. It was a torture and a torment. And back then, TV wasn’t as hyperactive as it is today. In fact, the most hyperactive show back then was one specifically designed to encourage learning in children: Sesame Street! (Given the floodtide of stupidity and rising illiteracy since that show debuted, I’d have to say: Massive Fail!)

Sometimes I wonder just how much of the human race are actually zombies from the neck up — seemingly alive, yet brain dead. (Given the epidemic of drugs, I also have to wonder how much of that brain-deadness is innate in human beings and how much was self-created through chemical destruction of neuronal connections. And how long will it be before someone wakes up to create that study?)

Here’s a great example of someone waking up to challenge dogma. This issue is so important it compels me to do the unthinkable: embed a YouTube video in my blog for the second time.

There’s Nash, surrounded by people who are seemingly as bright as he is. After all, they’re all in the same college together, so the others have to be intelligent too, right? Yet he notices something that goes against what the others have simply accepted. And it doesn’t happen in a classroom. It happens in life.

And how many things do you pass by in your daily life not noticing? What have you accepted as fact that actually isn’t? Why accept what is instead of what could and should be?