…I point out the obvious fact that all this crap we are spending huge resources trying to fix well enough to let us function well enough for the next few years is totally caused by collections of stupid men with self esteem problems…. . . . → Read More: I So Wish Alpha Males Would Calm the Fark Down
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I read a couple of articles where Steve Jobs, rivaling Larry Ellison for being the biggest sphincter of Silicon Valley, implied that no phones were smart before the iPhone. His real dig was apparently aimed at Google & their Android platform but I just want to jot down my own memory of things before legions of Apple & Google fanboys start changing history. First there was the Handspring. That was an offshoot of the Palm Pilot that used the same OS but was manufactured elsewhere. I bought a Handspring in 1999 after my Palm Pilot Pro that I’d had since 1997 died. My Handspring didn’t do phones though, but I recall they released a phone version in late 1999, early 2000. I think they were the first in terms of something that was a true melding of “Personal Digital Assistant” and phone and not an expansion of a phone . . . → Read More: A Short History of PDA Phones …or… The iPhone Wasn’t First Holy hell, I was just farking around on the web for the last 4 goddam hours. For most of my adult life I’ve dedicated significant effort to ignore and eliminate commercialization and commodification from my life. Yeah OK, my professional jobs have all been big bizz but my personal life has been different, or at least that’s what I’d always hoped. Problem is that my family life was pretty much a middle class 4 person atomic family affair. I had professional goals coaxed out of me by highly trained professional HR specialists. I had a growing set of responsibilities that went along with my greater influence in the company. I kept my sanity by not wasting my time. I worked long and hard, but I loved my wife and children. So I needed time, as much as I could find, so I could do those 2 things . . . → Read More: TV With An Infinite Number of Channels 
Puppies, oh puppies. What a year it was when these dogs were puppies… . . . → Read More: Sticking up a picture of the Boyz |
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