So how high will AAPL go on Monday?

We I think we can all agree, it doesn’t suck. So here’s the question: On Monday, Apple stock will:

1. skyrocket. Currently at 122.04, it’ll be north of 150 at some point during the day, maybe closing a little north of 130.  Or,

2. Maniac profit-taking, expecting a slower (and greater) rise, will drop AAPL by ~10 points.

Let’s see. (Disclaimer: I own no AAPL directly, it might be in a my 401k somewhere though)

(Update, Monday: Survey says: profit taking! Down a couple points, although it could be profit taking not as a result of great iPhone sales, but “OH SHIT UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP IS BAILING OUT OF ITMS”.)

I am a useless nerd.

You see, instead of waiting in line for iPhone, I have to write a bunch of code, rack up some machines, and GET WORK DONE YOU WORTHLESS BASTARDS.

There, I said it. I feel better. You can go back to ignoring me now; tomorrow you’ll have an iPhone and I won’t.

OmniWeb 5.6 (and 6?) coming soon-ish

I’m a big fan of OmniWeb - but it’s fallen far behind recently, it has a few well-documented bugs that make it difficult to stay with as a primary browser. The Omni blog and forum tend to center around OmniPlan and the forthcoming OmniFocus. Whither OmniWeb?

Well, Ken Case of  Omni gave a decent update on things in the forums. It’s also some interesting insight into how WebKit development is going from a 3rd party perspective.

So, yay, it looks like my favorite browser will get updated prior to October; but it’s yet another Real Soon Now post, the second in that thread, so boo.

Apparently Sterling used to be a live fire range

From the Loudoun County “newswire”:

06/21/07
1420 hrs.
22000 block
Shaw Rd.
Sterling
Explosive Device: The store manager for Sterling Mower was working with a tiller to the rear of the store when he uncovered a 80 millimeter mortar. The Loudoun County Bomb Squad was called to the scene. The area immediately surrounding the device was cleared. The mortar was determined by Military officials to be a live round. It was transported to Quantico to render safe the item this morning.

Ok first, just to be pedantic, it’s an 81mm mortar if it’s ours and probably 82mm if it’s Sov/Chicom. Second, what the fuck is a live mortar round doing in the back of a mower shop in Sterling.

Sometimes modern life is just so goddamn confusing.

Lack of Flash on iPhone, bad; but ….

Opera developing “Flash replacement”, ok? Or at least, un-noticed.

Hmm, it also looks like what a number of people have said about the distinct lack of iPhone plugins is, well, a common meme:

“You cannot execute and provide a good user experience,” Tomita told InfoWorld, referring to running the Flash plug-in on mobile devices.

Before/After, fatblogging.

The LA Times has a bit on “fatblogging“. I never really did a lot of it; maybe one day I’ll go into it more. But here’s the before/after.

Before: 11 September 2005 on the Maryland Heights trail outside Harper’s Ferry. I weighed in excess of 260 pounds. 9 days after this pic was taken, I resolved to start taking a walk every other day.

After: This morning (17 June 2007) at Bull Run Park. 175 pounds, 15% bodyfat. I can pass (with a dreadfully low score, but passing nonetheless) a USMC Physical Fitness Test (PFT): with about an 8-9 minute mile, 5-6 pull ups, and ~50 situps in 2 minutes. (and no that’s not a Barbara Walters filter, there was a fuckton of smoke in the air from campfires plus diffuse morning sun)

And now, a plug: I read this blog for info on weight loss. Anyone who comes right out and says, “There are no advanced strategies for fat loss” - meaning you have to exercise and eat right - is in my humble but correct opinion probably worth a listen.

We hate Israel and the United States but we’re big fans of Colt and IMI

Palestinian fighters, left to right:

M4-pattern, Galil, M16A2 (I think), M16A1 w/ A2 handguards (at least it looks like the old rear sight), M16 of unknown type

So we hate the West, Israel, and America, but yay for Colt and IMI.

Image from CNN.com.

Nerd Hate, Deux

This gem from the Slashdot story on ZFS and Leo-tard:
“Users of the future operating system will have to keep working with HFS+, a filesystem that is almost ten years old now.”

Yes. Yes, you hit the nail exactly on the head. The first thing my Dad asked me with respect to switching to the Mac is, “How old’s the filesystem, Gregg? You know damn good and well I simply cannot switch to any OS whose filesystem is more than 3 years old and that limits me to 2^31 files per folder. I mean, seriously, that’s bullshit.”

There are probably hundreds of reasons to dislike HFS+, in a wide array of technical contexts. But really, “email, web browsing, iPhoto” are 3 BIG USE CASES that THE FILESYSTEM ISN’T ALL THAT GODDAMN IMPORTANT, but that’s OK: keep on stroking your nerd dick, it’ll get bigger the louder you complain about the totally bullshit allocation block values in HFS+.

Nerds piss me off

The blogosphere is one endless ring of jackoffs spouting forth on font rendering and saying “heh”.

If you go out on the street, and start asking people, “Do you prefer the font rendering in Windows?” they’ll probably reply “font wha?”.

Likewise, as a Mac user, I tend to look at fonts in Windows as “weird”. They don’t look right. I like Mac fonts because my eye is used to them.

Talk ALL DAY about HOW FAR SUPERIOR you sub-pixel RGB nano-bot rendering hocus-pocus is, whatever it takes to get page rank, man. I, like most people, could give a fuck.

You are an authority on exactly one thing - you. Or, to put it another way, “Opinions are like assholes, everyone’s got one”. Stop talking about subjective things as if you’re an authority.

For example, I’m only an authority on my own awesomeness, so I had to poll the dozen supermodels who were in the hot tub with me, on how awesome I was in their view. Turns out? Awesome.

Safari 3 + Debug Menu + Spoof as Firefox

G’head, it’s worth a laugh. I suppose we’ll see that stuff fixed by October …