Of course, he’s nekkid as a jaybird in the bathtub, but there he is smiling, Janis. It has happened, and it lasted until he was ordered out of said tub by his great-grandmother, who’s probably had enough of grinning jackanapes at this point.

This is going to make some awesome first-girlfriend fodder somewhere down the line. He best hope his mama decides to stay up north and I decide to stay down south.

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Antisocial | PBS

Do you remember Citizens’ Band radio? Though established by the Federal Communications Commission in the 1950s, CB radio didn’t become an overnight sensation until the 1970s when Moore’s Law brought down the cost of radios to where it was economically viable to buy them solely for the purpose of breaking speed-limit laws.

I adore Robert Cringely, and I have many of his articles archive, but this is quite likely the worst stretch of the so-called Moore’s Law that I’ve ever read. Ever. I’m guessing here, and I won’t bother to check it out, but I’m pretty sure Texas Instruments had only barely figured out what a transistor was, and how to use it in calculators, when the CB radio craze hit the nation. IOW, Moore’s Law does not expand to fit all of human technological progress since the stone ax.

I’ve only read the first paragraph, and it makes me shriek in pain, but I’m going to read the rest, because he’s absolutely correct. The difference is that no one was stupid enough to give Cobra $250MM dollars in the seventies for ear canals, the equivalent of 21st century eyeballs. That’s $250,000,000 down the drain that will be spent on diddly-fucking-squat improving the lives of Americans, or the rest of the schmucks wasting oxygen on this good earth.

My God, I love capitalism, that that kind of money can just go up in a puff of smoke and not even be noticed. You kids wanting to elect that Obama dude need to take heed…no one is going to fund your spray-paint-cartoonist self-esteem collaborative when all that cash is going to universal health care. Henry Ford sure as hell didn’t expect free prescriptions or parental maternity leave, I can promise you that. Hell, no, there was work to be done. Yet, everyone today wants to piss it all away so they don’t have to pay for Bandaids and flu shots. Morons. Completely and utterly unaware of natural law. TAANSTAFL, pimps & bitches. Know it, love it, use it.

Genius Pull Quotes (learned that phrase from all those reporters:

Social networking has a lot of problems as both a business and a cultural phenomenon. To start with there is generally no true business model.

How many groups do you have to join, how many causes do you have to support, how many silly applications do you have to run until you come to realize that you are being included TO DEATH?

It’s not that I don’t see value to social networks, it’s that I generally don’t see ENOUGH value.

“Breaker Port 80! Do you have your ears on?”

I said all of this when MySpace hit the scene, and I reiterated it when Facebook turned into what I knew would be a 60 Minutes fluffer, but who cares about that? I’m seriously ancient, so what do I know? Regardless, we’re not so far into 3rd-level living that we can all sit around and IM lolcatz garbage to each other and expect to get paid for it. Something, somewhere, has to be produced that someone, somewhere is willing to pay for. It’s either a car, or a house, or something, but an app for Facebook or the iPhone? Well, try this on for size…it’s good shit, but there are a billion Red Chinese who know C++, and if you think you’re going to feed the bulldog on it, I’m betting that you can’t for very long. You’re going to get disintermediated, hell, atomized, by super-cheap brainpower.

I got tickets almost 7 weeks ago to go see Ryan Bingham open up for Joe Ely at Gruene Hall tomorrow night. I’m so tired, and I’ve got so much work to do, that I don’t even know if I can gin up the enthusiasm. Maybe I’ll just go for the Bingham part, since I’ve seen Joe about 100 times. I mean no disrespect to Joe or his band by that, either…they’re in my Top Five of good live acts.

I’m just beat…put about 800 miles on mi troca this week, and that driving shit will wear you out. It was also 30 hours away from TFG Labs, which is hard to carve out these days.