indefensible: john gruber

i'm down with the kind of conservatism that avoids sequels but that means no iphone 5s, 6 etc...

i mean small c conservatism

http://brooksreview.net/2012/12/unions/

like i feel his extreme aesthetic conservatism is part of a more general cultural conservatism

jesus fucking christ

p much

i dont know why i ever had that guy in my RSS reader but when i dumped him and some other gruberhead dittoheads (kept the main guy tho) i felt like my life had noticeably improved

Gruber spends way too much time calling out people who say dumb shit about apple, not enough time rumor-mongering.

i still read him all the time he is horrible but there are lots of good links on there and he even writes good stuff occasionally and i even like the claim chowder because im into predictions and its fun to see old ones

ya thats me basically haha

i only read when he is linked from other places, and it's usually pretty good. who's a less horrible gruber, though, so i can read that instead?

marco

lol basically

yeah joe otm.

https://twitter.com/garyvee/status/324346308196450305

hahahaha

how the hell is jon gruber a verified account

no idea but my guess is that a lot of people at twitter know who he is

he's one of the most visible tech writers in the industry

yeah groobs is up there with any of the broadsheet guys like Pogue, Ihnatko, Mossberg.

i hate this world

gruber is occasionally douchey but I still read him.

See also: MG Siegler.

siegler is so much worse. particularly since he's a VC and has a vested interest in all the shit he writes about

MG Siegler @parislemon 4m
The stock market is a game. And if you don't realize that, you're sadly in the group being gamed.

lol is he reading this thread

gary vaynerchuk tweeting "i miss u" at gruber is the only worthwhile thing that ever happened on twitter

is it a blink182 refernce? this world of micro online mac celebrities seems completely divorced from the world of micro flesh mac celebrities.

it could be looked at that way, but gary certainly wasn't thinking of tom delonge

that being said, i'm going to take this opportunity on this relatively obscure thread to announce that i'm done with that as a meme/thing and won't be posting it anymore

and now that i've said it i guess it's true so there we go

i don't know who gary is, so contextually blink182 is all i have to go on. (i also don't know who gruber is either other than he seems to be linked to a lot)

have you guys come across any japanese mac magazines? they look really content-rich. I feel like there's a vast trove of good mac journalism hidden from us at kinokuniya while the english-speaking world has to settle for weird twitter people

he's a social media dude or whatever

http://daringfireball.net

*points to logo*

he's from Philly

used to work around here i think

i think

I'm sure gruber's Yankees fandom has been mentioned as part of his indefensibility itt.

you should google gary, lol

o god grubes u sanctimonious prick get that logo off yr site

wonder if he had the express written permission of Major League Baseball

lawsuit

let's make a citizens' arrest

where's gruber?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/8666761437/in/set-72157633287874607/lightbox/

back right, looking like he could use a benadryl

you found him! ok now everyone else. http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/276914_206566229429_1484857798_q.jpg

wait, i guess you don't need to find him now that you know where he is.

ha yeah sorry

now find the startup ceo with an oversized t shirt, oh wait

xpost np

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/8667025960/in/set-72157633287874607/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/8667026542/in/set-72157633287874607/

marco on phish

If you’ll permit a pretty rough analogy, imagine a world in which the vast majority of published fiction was in the form of 3,000-word short stories, and most people had never read anything longer. Phish is the one outlier publishing novels, and they’re pretty weird, complex novels. No effort to condense such novels into bite-sized short stories will truly capture the appeal.