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Microsoft ho Robert Scoble talks about John Dvorak's recent bullshit regarding Apple's "plans" to move to Intel chips. Robert says:

John seems to think that if everyone talks about his outrageous ideas and links to him, that that makes him successful. OK, I cry uncle cause I'm talking about him, and linking to him.

Scoble, you got played. John doesn't "seem" to think that - he knows that. You played right into his hand. Presented below is part of an article I wrote in August, 1999 about John Dvorak. Robert? Wake up. The time you spent refuting Dvorak's "case" could have been much better spent, don'tcha think?

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The comments at /. are fairly positive so far.

Wow. I have goosebumps. Wow.

Will it happen? I don't know. But even if it doesn't happen, what's this news story already accomplished? It's reminded people of Apple's anti-DRM stance. It's reminded them of their digital hub strategy. It's reminded them of their iPod. It's reminded them of QuickTime. It's reminded people of "Rip. Mix. Burn."

Apple stock is down a buck or so on the news, but as someone pointed out, Wall Street hates it when one company (potentially) spends $6B on a debt-ridden company.

Wow.

Last week, it was the obvious choice Dave who got the boot. He won the reward and took Deena. This week it supposedly seems obvious: Matt. But last week they mentioned a "power struggle" and the past few years that has meant one thing: Deena will be going tonight. And now, live (on tape delay), here we go!

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Gabe says of reality TV:

Survivor. The Real World. American Idol. The Bachelor. What do all these shows have in common? They all suck.

This from the premise that "they're not reality." Frankly, Gabe, I'm not buying it. Just because "reality tv isn't reality" doesn't mean it "sucks." Reality TV, were it actual reality, would be pretty damn boring. Reality TV has its moments, its bright shining spots where someone acts so tremendously stupid that it's enjoyable. Nobody watching reality TV is deluded enough to think that it "is" reality. You're a screenwriter/director, Gabe. Give your audience a little more credit than that.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to blog about last night's episode of Survivor.

Proving that some people are bigger geeks than others, KahunaBurger has figured out how to read his email on his TV via his TiVo. I'm still in the "can't use the home media options because I, like Vinay, have an SAT-T60.

I wake up this morning to find that Apple in talks to buy Universal Music Group!?!?!?!

According to the paper, Apple is in talks to buy Universal Music, one of the world's 'big five' record labels, from its troubled parent Vivendi. The Mac maker has yet to make a formal bid for the company, though negotiations have been continuing for the last couple of months. Apple is apparently looking to pay $5-6 billion. LA Times sources say Apple may make a bid on 29 April, when Vivendi's board is next due to meet."

Eh? Hmm. And WTF? The full story can be found here.

Sayeth Jamie:

I have very low expectations of people, and that's why I hang out with you.

Hmmmmm…

I take two steps forward I take two steps back. Okay, Paula Abdul may have had a short career, but wasn't she married to Emilio Estevez once? Emilio is Charlie Sheen's brother, and of course both are Martin Sheen's sons. Martin Sheen is on West Wing, which needs to step it up soon because I'm sick of seeing reruns. Step to it, Sorkin!

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Today my coffee table was delivered. You can see it below, complete with Learning Perl and Programming Perl along with Computer Forensics, some circuit board coasters, and my 12" PowerBook. The coffee cups? Well, those are for "my buddy" Jamie, who made me get a coffee pot, a blender, and this table in the first place. On the loveseat you see "Trivial Pursuit: 20th Anniversary Edition." I've yet to play it. Hopefully soon.

Jamie pointed me at this article on Starbucks.com, Composting with Coffee. As a kid, in fifth grade or so, I did a science experiment that involved watering plants with different liquids. Bean sprouts were nourished with beer, milk, coffee, pop (soda to you weird folks), green bean juice, and water.

The bean sprouts that had a daily dose of coffee grew the most, followed by water, green bean juice, and pop. The beer plant died and the milk plant was overrun by some kind of fungus but was otherwise growing fairly well (about as well as the water). Hey, at least it wasn't another "are plants that listen to classical music healthier" experiment. Everyone did that one.

Pierre Igot writes about how Radio sucks. Those are my words. In his words, Radio has "a certain degree of unreliability."

I tried Radio for, oh, about fifteen minutes once. The only way I'd have deleted the app faster was if it had been written in REALbasic.

Jason Kottke is, oh, I dunno, about two years late with this joke. The 17" and 12" PowerBook are of course made of an aluminum alloy.

Speaking of which, I got a new coffee table today, and the first thing I put in one of its drawers was my PowerBook (12"). I thought to myself that it felt very weird to think of a $2000 machine as something I might just store for periods of time in a drawer.

Then I put my remotes in the other drawer.

It seems Matt Deatherage's May¹ article, the one following his error-laden April article, has also caused some debate, this time with Watson developer Dan Wood. I personally think Dan's constant whining² is unfounded - Sherlock 3 prototypes and code were written well before he began work on Watson - but his points in this article are, unlike Matt's, well founded in knowledge, fact, and reason.

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Sports teams often talk about momentum, or announcers do, but other things can have momentum too. Jamie will eventually get into momentum in her physics class (or has already), and speaking of Jamie, even relationships can have momentums, lulls, peaks, valleys, etc. But sports teams, that's where you hear it most often. Sack the QB and the momentum may shift your way. Let's hope the Steelers have momentum all year. The Pirates started off pretty well.

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I was watching Sports Night (episode 40, "Draft Day Part 1") when Jeremy said "what is a choreoanimator?" He was asking about Jenny, his porn star girlfriend (played by the incredibly cute Paula Marshall of the now-gone Hidden Hills).

I wondered what the heck a choreoanimator was as well, and so I Googled it. Turns out the first page of results is, gee, about Sports Night. Wow. I guess it's a made up word. Here's what I'm gonna do: define it.

A choreoanimator is someone who reads NSLog.com daily. Take that, you G to the oo with a gle.

P.S. I bet my friend Dave that within two weeks, I'd be the top Google result for "choreoanimator." Today is April 13, and I've done it. Four days. Choreoanimator. 🙂