garry’s posthaven

I saw this teaser ad and had to laugh out loud. They're spending $300 million on a massive ad campaign to 'protect their brand.'

How about spending that $300 million on sucking less? Or spending it on engineers to rip out awful code bloat. $300 mil! Good lord that's a lot of money.

Only another 500 more to edit. =)

Someone posted a link to a full video of unreleased movie August on Hacker News. It's worth watching the 2nd scene in the movie in the meeting room with Hartnett and potential business partners. Probably the most unintentionally funny scene in the whole film. Here's a gem from that scene: "That's so 3rd quarter 99. You want bleeding edge cross platform robust scalable architectures? Well duh. That's what everyone wants."

Other than that, it's a boring tailspin of a movie about the implosion of an egomaniacal startup founder with a reality distortion field the size of Kansas. It's shot beautifully, though. And I do love the Radiohead in the soundtrack. I also couldn't believe Hartnett dropped a reference to [edit: Luis Bunuel and] Salvadore Dali's surrealist film Un Chien Andalu! James and I saw it at the Dali retrospective at the Tate Modern last summer.

Also: I don't understand how filmmakers think that putting a tense driving score to very EXCEEDINGLY boring scenes (e.g. Hartnett cooking dinner, doing dishes, etc.) will suddenly transform the scene into dramatic brilliance.

Sachin just sent me this badass portrait of our favorite software hero/demigod, Steve Jobs. I think I have a new iPhone wallpaper.

STEVE JOBS AT HOME IN 1982 — "This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had." —Steve Jobs (Source: Digital Journalist)