June 2012
138 posts
…going for a run while he follows me on his bicycle.

iDisk, the forerunner of such services as DropBox and…um…DropBox’s little known competitors, will cease to exist come tomorrow, along with two other MobileMe services you’ve forgotten about. Although some (such as myself) have actually made use of Apple’s cloud storage, online file directories (or file systems of any kind, for that matter) seem to have no place in Apple’s future — a future in which individual apps for iOS and OS X simply show you which documents they can open. …assuming they’re in the right directory, which you’ll have ever-decreasing access to. Aiyaiyai.
Anyway, back up yo shit. Even if just to find seven-year-old gems like this:

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I just realized that iPhones are like the Regina George of smartphones: devs can hate her, and at the same time they want her to like them.
That of course makes Android Cady Heron. She’s more popular now, but iPhone, like, invented her.
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“That dingo’s got my baby!”
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“These damn things are as hot as a stiff cock!”

“I have ::sob:: such doubts!”

“No no, that…wasn’t a question.”

“By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.”

“I said to myself, ‘Go ahead. Take a chance. Hire the smart, fat girl.’ I had hope. My God. I live on it.”
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“I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion: I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.”
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“Could you just not breathe?”
And finally…
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“Mamma mia, here I go again. My my, how can I resist you?”
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If I ever come into contact with an overweight PC gamer sweaty enough to need this mouse during his fifth straight hour of Skyrim, I can’t imagine what I’d do.