Happy Christmas From Zo!

To everyone who stops here and reads, I love having this place
and am so grateful to each and every one of you. Celebrate!

The Borrowers

This photo, which I thought so beautiful at a moment when life did not seem so, was taken by Charles Ling. Talented, funny, strange old guy.

Gruber Avoids a Stroke

But I say, Take care of your arteries, man, and they will take care of you. Yes I do think you burned off a at least a few potential TIA's with this magnificent title:

Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort of Knee-Jerk Shill Who Rails Against Anything ‘Anti-Apple’ Simply for the Sake of Defending Apple, and if I Love Apple So Much Why Don't I Just Marry Them?

But brace yourself. Adam L. Penenberg (give the guy a break, he's probably fourteen years old. No? Oh. Well in that case, his stupid-ass ass? Kick it again. The crime? A level of witlessness that makes Enderle Industries spokesperson, R. Endlerle, look good. Okay, not good ... But why do you read these assholes anyway?)

I do love it when you get all wound up in your Daring-Fireball-the-guy-who-never-gets-wound-up way. Restraint is a such pleasure to read.

However, I feel strangely compelled point out, You missed one:

“But none of that will stop a growing number of adversaries from doing all they can to pare Apple down.”

Now promise me you won't get upset.

All This Fighting Over Who Is Anointed

What There Is To See

Chuckling: "The failure to understand Genesis is literally “undermining the entire word of God,” Ken Ham, the founder of Answers in Genesis, says in a video. The collapse of Christianity believed to result from that failure is drawn out in a series of exhibits: school shootings, gay marriage, drugs, porn and pregnant teens."

But what if it's the other way round?

What if Christianity, as practiced, is a whopping failure?

That fails those in need because it has been the vehicle of men like Ken Ham, founder, who see profit and power, the toxic mix of money and ego, even in the body of the Christ.

Aw hell, Christ Himself would be bored to tears and not a little pissed with the video-taped crap of the Ken Hams of this world. Would throw their smarmy asses out of the temple—probably muttering to himself, Christ, again?—and hand the whole thing over to the women. Whom he admired, whom he was close to, and why not, would you give anything deep to men?

One feels sorry for people whose lives are run by their gonads, but you tell me, are they ever in their right mind? I think not.

Step back and for the moment ignore the fact that men have taken the role. Are they really fit ?

Or is it they who constitute the troubled, the baffled and bereft. Who bring eternal grief to the family, to the lives of women and children, to nations. Spiritually damned by that untruthful double life.

In the short time He was alive, Jesus invested in the women around him. Despite the fact they were as respected as sand fleas. Which no doubt aided the idea of his enemies that He was just some kind of nut.

But if you're at all grown up, you know. The crazy are sane, the meek the strength of the earth, where Buddhists practice Christianity and a celibate Pope honks on and on about sex.

It would be nice to have a true church to turn to, but honey, as we know, Institutions are categorically fucked. I just got some ideas why.

You Are Coming To A Sad Realization

Apple Downloads - FileDefense: "FileDefense automatically alerts you when any program is accessing files and prompts you to accept or deny that access."

Hey, not me, baby. I trust my self not to click on pop ups, especially the ones offering to clean my registry, and not to visit germy sites.

I love the way the porn industry used to keep it, um,under wraps on the front page. Now you got girls in one of my ever favorite poses, fresh white cum dripping down their chin. Nice for the kids.

Who all is making money off the ever-growing number of switchers, who got a few years to go before they get what Unix does. Which is more than Redmond can seem to ever grasp. Steve Jobs is not the only person to ever think a thing through and to decide upon excellence. Anything less is, frankly,boring—and the Borg People all work in Washington, where I envision tears of boredom dripping down my face, were it my face.

But really. How likely is that.

Just Like That

That's all I've been hearing in my head, Frank.

My seven deep dark secrets? Not so much.