Archive for the 'Humor' Category

Red Sweater Software Acquires Taste

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Somerville, MA. April 1, 2007

Red Sweater Software today announced that is has acquired taste. After years of speculation about such a move, the company said that it realized the time had finally come.

“Taste can be difficult to spot, and a real challenge to capture. That’s why I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve simply acquired it,” [...]

Getting Things Done

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

OK … I mean this in the nicest possible way, because I have also considered (and may someday pursue!) writing my own ToDo-type application.

But I’d like to offer my revision on a popular joke from academia…

Those who can, do
Those who can’t do, write ToDo apps.
Those who can’t write ToDo apps … eventually figure out how [...]

Macintendo Family Values

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Update: 12/29/2006

Disclaimer: This article is not news. It is humor as a backdrop for high-level analysis. Please do not cite is as a rumor, or even as speculation.

The “announcement” is not based on any factual information that has been made available to me. Although I enjoyed the fantasy of a Nintendo/Apple partnership as a backdrop [...]

Working On Windows

Friday, October 6th, 2006

The contractors are abuzz in the neighbor’s building, hammering, spackling, and chatting loudly with each other. I sit here staring into Xcode, furiously trying to figure out an NSTextField drawing issue, when I hear a choice bit of wisdom echo through my office:
“I just fuckin’ hate working on windows, man.”

Amen to that. Apparently the similarities [...]