iPhone rumors

Well, let me jump into the fray. There have been rumors about the next generation of iPhone. Possibly, probably, well actually, pretty much for sure it's going to be announced at at the WWDC
this coming Monday.

Lots of pics and rumors have been spewing forth the past few weeks (months?) Most of them just fakes.

Here's some new ones, from CrunchGear. We are so close to the actual event, could these be real? Who knows?

Either way I want two.

I think this is me

xkcd by Randall Munroe click the image to embigen and link!

A Map

In case you get lost, here is a map. CLICK THIS.

Note: It really needs a "You are here" sign. And maybe a listing of Howard Johnson's locations.

FreakAngels

Warren Ellis is a writer. Warren Ellis is a comic book writer. He is known by many as Internet Jesus.

He has a weekly free web comic called FreakAngels. It's free. It's weekly. It's on the web. It's cool. It's not for little children. You should give it a try. Again: it's free. Here's a handy link to episode 1.

Warren Ellis has a website, a mailing list and a message forum full of active and creative people.

Warren Ellis has written many wonderful things.

Warren Ellis is probably smarter than you and I put together.

Know you know.

Oh, so that's where it is.

I found The End.

thanks to Justin Ellis for the link.

On the way to the beach...

Having some "getting dressed" frustrations with my son. :)

New Words for 2008

I received this email from my dad. Not sure where this originated from, but I like to share:

NEW WORDS FOR 2008:

1. BLAMESTORMING Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2.SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise,
craps on everything, and then leaves.

3.ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success
and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard

4.SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.

6.PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a
cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's
going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

8.SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What
Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working
to stay home with the kids.

9.STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

10.SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless
because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11.XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

12.IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying
but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of
an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just
above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are
often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were
designed to solve.

15. 404 : Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error
Message '404 Not Found,' meaning that the requested sit e could not be
located.

16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the
same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,
and subdivisions.

17.OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an
email by mistake).

18.WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.