Just to let you know, I will be coming out of retirement for one day in January to cover the last Macworld Expo keynote ever, to be presented by Phil Schiller.
That is all.
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no shit. 1st.
and last. doom indeed.
Wow. 2nd?
Phil is doing it?
Oh yeh – top 5!
Welcome back from retirement Moltz
Maybe Jennifer Fricking Connelly will be there as well.
Sounds like somebody is bored.
7 again, sukas!
So if he’s coming out of retirement for one day, what do you call what happens after that? Retirementment? Retirementx2? Retiremore?
Oh GOD! Steve Jobs is dying! Short Apple stock! It’s all over!
(Just wanted to avoid the rush to the Hysteria Bandwagon.)
Oh for cryin’ out loud! This tech journalist is being reasonable and rational.
Where’s the hysteria? I want my hysteria, dammit!
(The stock is down almost 2.5% in after hours trading.)
10th!
I don’t have any hysteria but I’ve got a truck full of hyenas if that would help.
Umm…. I left the tailgate open again. I guess I had a truck full of hyenas.
First power computing stops coming to macworld, and now this?
Dammit, Del! Your truck
Full of hyenas really
Screwed my front bumper.
Whose hyenas are crowding the buffet? They’re copping all the wildebeest!
What about the pie?
Given the number of Apple products not announced at the show these days, today’s news probably makes no difference beyond a short-term deal on the stock price.
The real question remains–if there isn’t pie, I’m not going to the show.
A truckful of hernias?? How the heck .. oh, forget it, I don’t want to know.
Will Phil Schiller’s posse be in tha’ house??
Will Moltz’s comeback be more like:
(a) Michael Jordan’s first unretirement, quickly rising to the top.
(b) Kurt Warner’s unretirement, at first sucky, but getting better.
(c) Brett Favre’s unretirement, which doesn’t really count as a retirement in the first place.
You could vote, but this isn’t a poll. Or a pole for that matter.
Woo hoo! This was pretty much my first reaction when I heard the news: hoping you’d cover the Philnote! Looking forward to it.
But John, you are so much older now, so how will you maintain the previous high standards?
First it was the hysteria. Then it was the hiatus. Now it’s the hyenas!
WILL THE MADNESS NEVER END?!
Hope not.
Something-ith!
I am 100% into the hysteria, but it’s not about Steve Jobs’ health. It’s because dropping out of Macworld means Apple is getting out of the computer business.
Mark my words! Mark them, I say!
Apple makes computers?
Oh, drat. I had intended to use a pseudonym for that post.
If my dire prediction turns out to be wrong, and everyone has marked my words — well, that could be rather embarrassing, and potentially harmful to my budding career as a tech prognosticator.
If I had used a pseudonym, as I originally intended, and the dire prediction had proven wrong, I’d just switch to a new pseudonym. Drat, drat, drat!
But, uh, maybe “Michael Burton” isn’t my real name. Yeah. Maybe it’s a pseudonym that sounds like it might be a real name, but isn’t. Mind games!
That’s amazing. Michael Button is my name too.
My name is John Jacob Google-heimer Smith.
That’s my name too! Whenever I go out, the … uh .. actually I don’t get out much.
Screw MacWorld. We want to hear the dirty from the Daringfireball Conference & Expo hot tub.
There’s a tax deduction in this for you somehow, isn’t there, Moltz?
Is John Moltz really Phil Schiller?
It would account for the hiatus as he prepared himself for MacWorld stardom.
Personally, I think Apple needs to headhunt The Entity to pick up the CEO mantle. Who else could convince people in this economy to buy non-upgradable desktops for twice what most companies are selling laptops for?
And if anyone was going be able to cross the trans-dimensional threshold of space-time to recruit him, it would be Apple’s HR executive team.
Or just leave out a bowl full of Baked Lays. Either way.
Which only proves that genuine Russian Vodka is stronger than mountain dew.
Cool… vodka and Baked Lays!
I covet the 34th posting position nearly as much as I covet Moltz’s ox, ass and anything else that is Moltz’s.
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Go, Nate, go!
ыте ме КомядDи1К!
Your link spamski bs grows tiresome.
I’ll be there, and PARTYING!
… after finally getting Bill Eccles post …
Oh, yeah… And haikus! The hysteria, the hiatus, the hyenas and the haikus!
WILL THIS MADNESS …
Oh, never mind.
Merry Christmas to all!
Peace on Earth, Good Will To Men
… even in spite of — well, you know — that whole “hassenpfeffer” thing. We can just forget that that whooole thing ever happened…
Let’s all drink a cup of cheer to celebrate the New Year!
So. Does one drink red or white with rabbit?
Doesn’t it depend on the colour of the fur?
Or maybe even the color.
I’ll go with the white.
Hey, Street Rabbit!
I need polka-dot wine to go with my rabbit. Where can I find such?
Polka Dot Rabytts R uz.
Whatever the rabbit is having usually works for me.
I was going to hold out for Fifty, but at the rate that the comments are coming in I just couldn’t risk that wait.
*sigh*
Thanks for the heads-up John. See you next year.
KC
Ace,
You asked, “Where can I find such?” The London Telephone Book lists three.
I’m clearly a tad late on this, but . . . ‘retirement’?
Is that what Moltz is now calling dossing in his ‘Mac crib’ and alternately dreaming of being either Robbie the Robot or the Monster from the Id what melts his Poor Metal Mind?
Right.
Well, *I’ll* be ‘coming out’ . . . er, of ‘retirement’ . . . when I stop alternately playing Panzer General III: Scorched Earth and surfing the net to see if Moltz has finally come out of retirement.
Tsch.
Oh, and the London Phone Telephone Book lists no such thing.
It does, however, list where three places to find Rabbit Wine – which, as everyone knows, sends you completely dotty and hence leads inevitably to Polka. So I can understand how the confusion might have arisen.
Fess up time, London Phone book no longer published, just regions. There are three Such’ listed in the Croydon book alone. Multiply by ten at least for the London Such population.
Thanks for the clarification.
I notice however that there is no “Nxxx” listed in the Croydon directory, so how reliable can it be?
There is no ‘Nxxx’ in Croydon. That’s probably why.
I’m having difficulty saying ‘Philnote’ without my intestines making prolonged gurgling sounds. Do you think they’re upset?
Do people in Croydon actually have phones? Do they not think they’ll steal their souls out through their ears or something?
Next you’ll be telling me the Neanderthals of Essex have discovered fire. And that the torching of recently joy-ridden pimp-my-clios is some kind of sacrifice to the God of the White Diamond.
The very thing.
Phones? We got loads of them. And trainers.
Any fire ceremony is normally in praise of Black Diamond, banjo strings.
Croydon?! Haven’t heard of Croydon before. Is that anywhere near Croton-on-Hudson? Or Yonkers? Parsippany, maybe? Or Niskayuna, perhaps? How about Irondequoit?
Neither had I.
Neither had I until I mentioned it a few posts ago.
I believe it’s near Pratt’s Bottom. Just near Shitterton.
Not far from Cockshoot (not to be confused with Cockermouth), just between Nob End and Sandy Balls.
Don’t get confused and end up in Lickfold (or, even worse, Lickey End).
Oh, and Happy New Year to all at CARS (and its foaming penumbra).
Actually, Foaming Penumbra sounds like it should have been in my previous post.
Mah Bruthuh,
I think those towns you named are actually all in Pennsylvania. For example, you get to Cockshoot right after you go through Intercourse. (Most people tell me it takes just a minute to get there, but for me it can take hours.) Intercouse, as you may have heard, is close to Paradise. And I understand that Blue Ball is not far from Pratt’s Bottom, but to be honest I’ve never wanted to go there.
Apparently the journey time is alcohol-related.
Or so I’m told.
I don’t drink, so I rarely go near Pratt’s Bottom anyway.
Alas, my wife also only drinks rarely . . . so Intercourse is also a somewhat infrequent visitor to our Satnav.
…
I was going to do something smutty with Satnav, but, you know, New Year’s Resolutions and all that.
I still haven’t heard of Croydon, and I hope I never do.
About Pennsylvania: Philadelphia is called the “City of Brotherly Love,” and in my state I think that is illegal. Or at least frowned upon and not talked about.
Mah Bruthuh,
Despite your resolutions, you realize, of course, that, after all this, no one is ever, ever going to accept an invitation from you, me, or Ace to go visit Pennsylvania — don’t you?
Always thought William Penn was a Protestant not a Catholic.
Do you think that William Penn had heard of Croydon?
Happy 2009 to the CARS-ites. The CARS-skes. The CARSonators. The CARSters. Making copies…..
Right back at ya, 2000guitars! I like how when Moltz pretends to come out of retirement, all the old timers start commenting like it’s the second coming. It’s almost like the golden days, except for the worldwide financial crisis, and being old and decrepit.
Now this is why I didn’t want to ever hear of Croydon. All the attention we’ve lain on the place has had dire effects on its Mayor: http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/latestnews/Breaking-news-Croydon-mayor-Jonathan-Driver-dead-40/article-581124-detail/article.html
Perhaps Moltz is ‘coming out’ . . . of retirement so he can pop in to Pennsylvania en route to MacWorld (which it clearly is)? Clearly he won’t be seeing *any* of us there, NBEApparently.
Well, not in the *flesh*.
Maybe on polaroid later, though.
Or that interweb thing.
Depending on how squeezy this credit crunch thingy gets.
And I’m pretty certain that William Webb had heard of Croydon. Indeed, he probably braved the Atlantic to get away from it.
Also . . . ‘Pennsylvania’? Was he going for some kind of Vampire vibe?
Also also…
Mega-Post . . . Mega-Post . . . Mega-Post…
Come on, lads: you know you want a reprise. That’s why Moltz has prodded us. He knoweth we art Weak of Will, thereof.
Brother Mugga,
You should know that the Mega-Post died long ago. The successor to the Mega-Post (affectionately known as the Giga-Post) still lives here: http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/?p=235#comment-215983
Also, in a previous comment, “we’ve lain” should have been “we’ve laid.” The cat was on the keyboard again.
Ace,
Oh dear. I feel the thrill of getting a CARS mention must have zapped his poor little ticker. Happy New Year indeed.
Regarding posts, however, I hold fast to the glory of the Mega-Post. Sequels so frequently disappoint.
Not the Giga-Post, clearly, which was bowel-blendingly chucklesome.
But, you know, sequels in *general*.
I never really recovered from Jaws II. Just like Schneider’s reputation.
And when, we wail, is ‘Hawk the Slayer II: Halls of the Fat Lords’ ever going to see the light of day, hmmm?
Pshhh.
Maybe I should have avoided confusion and just suggested a Tetra-Post?
Or just skipped on to a more alliterative Peta-Post? Or even Yotta-Post? After all, with all that hard and deeply meaningful work Moltz is clearly getting stuck into (i.e. perfecting his Robbie the Robot stare . . . adding reverb to his ‘Does not compute!’ voice), how often can we rely on him kick-starting things from here on?
Can I count on your votes for the vacant Mayorship?
You’ve got both of my votes!
You could appoint me Ravenmaster in return, presuming Croydon has a raven or two.
Pish. I was just about to reply here when I notice that Moltz has been ‘active’ again. Better read what he has to say, I suppose. Some people.
Would Sparrowmaster do?
Most Ravens have been eaten.
Let’s handover to Del.
Nxxx, why are you still here? Everyone else has buggered off to the new post.
Except me, clearly.
Do you want a lift?
BM,
Better class of person here and the knowledge that JM wont appear. The last six words before the full stop were typed with crossed fingers.
I generally cross my legs too.
You know what he’s like.
Довольно интересно, спасибо.
Интересно
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