Lettuce, possibly. (Taken with instagram)
I don't really have a lot of time for blogging. But I do like to micro-blog. I can't believe I just used the word "micro-blog". Which I just did again.
Ask me anything
January 30, 2012
January 30, 2012
Sheep running away from me because I was taking their picture. (Taken with instagram)
January 29, 2012
"As the case headed for trial, Gina Barton of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Cates had been investigated for illegal behavior on five previous occasions, three of them involving sexual misconduct. Two of those were with prisoners. The third was with a 16 year-old and that case had been referred to the Milwaukee district attorney’s office, which declined to prosecute. The priors came as no surprise to the 19-year-old who was now accusing him of raping her while he somehow remained employed as a cop."
— She Dialed 911. The Cop Who Came to Help Raped Her. - The Daily Beast
January 29, 2012
January 25, 2012
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Lana Del Rey - Diet Mtn Dew
OBSESSED
January 24, 2012
January 24, 2012
A "Holy Fucking Shit" Quarter
Remember back in October when after a rare “miss” by Apple (which was only a miss because analysts are stupid and lazy), the early signs pointed to the potential of a $40 billion quarter? Some thought that was insane given that Apple had never even had a $30 billion quarter before. Well, turns out that projection was a little insane — insanely low.
It’s a number so insane that it even destroys the $42.76 billion blow-out “whisper” number.
As for the early projections of 34 million iPhones sold — which again, some people thought were crazy — also low. Try 37 million.
But hey, Android is winning, right?
As for the other numbers. 15.43 million iPads. A record. 5.2 million Macs. A record. 15.4 million iPods. Not a record, but no surprise — this is the age of the iPhone.
Net quarterly profit was $13.06 billion. Again, holy shit.
That stock you were an idiot for selling after aforementioned “miss”? Up 10% now in after-hours trading, well past $460 a share. By far an all-time high, pushing Apple’s market cap well past $400 billion.
Apple now has $97.6 billion in cash.
I’ll be listening to the call at 2PM PT and posting some follow-up thoughts on TechCrunch. Stay tuned.
Some thoughts:
- I wonder how much of that cash is stuck overseas.
- Is it the age of the iPhone, or the age of the iPad?
- How successful was the iPhone 4S compared to all other iPhone sales?
January 23, 2012
How It Should Have Ended - The Return of the Jedi.
January 22, 2012
"Second, these two bills were drafted by the MPAA and the RIAA and walked into Washington without an iota of conversation with the technology industry. I can’t tell you how many Senators and Representatives have told me that they were told by the MPAA and the RIAA that the technology industry was on board and that these issues would not impact the Internet and tech community adversely. This is no way for one industry to propose that Congress regulate another industry. I think it is absurd that one industry would have the arrogance to think it is appropriate to ask Congress to regulate another industry for them. And yet that is what went down on these bills."
January 21, 2012
"Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. The big content companies are TERRIBLE at doing both of these things, so it’s no wonder they’re not doing so well in the current environment. And right now everyone’s fighting to control distribution channels, which is why I can’t watch Star Wars on Netflix or iTunes. It’s fine if you want to have that fight, but don’t yell and scream about how you’re losing business to piracy when your stuff isn’t even available in the box I have on top of my TV. A lot of us have figured out how to do this."
— Jonathan Coulton writes a smart post about MegaUpload, SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Copyright, and being an artist amongst pirates. Grab a cup of coffee on this snowy/rainy Saturday and make this your morning read. (via spytap)
(via spytap)
RSS feed: http://jalvear.tumblr.com/rss
1 of 118
Next page
-
[image: Cornel West holding a sign that says “if only the war on poverty was a real war then we would actually be putting...
-
-
-
-
“But Joe Paterno’s sin was not apathy. Joe Paterno participated—consciously or not—in a cover-up and a conspiracy. And in the pile of good things and...”
-
-
Street Art - Sokak Sanatı by anonymous artist
-
Anyone need a hat?
