New Applepress out for perusal
April 28th, 2010 | Author: mclasen
The May Issue can be downloaded here:
In this issue:
- Photo Contest Winner
- Inside the MacClinic
- May Freebies
- Make Your Own Photobook
- Read Our Blog With RSS (adapted from this blog)
- Last Chance to Win iPad Raffle
As well as my monthly ambling, enjoy!
Somehow I have become president of my local Apple user group DVMUG – here is our monthly newsletter in which I get to be on the front page every month – imagine that!
That Lost 4G PhoneApr 26, 2010 General Nonsense |Two questions I am often asked:
- How far in advance do you work?
- How quickly can you publish a comic on a current event?
Today I will indirectly answer both questions by talking about something else entirely. I assume you’ve all been following the story of the Apple engineer who left a prototype 4G iPhone at a beer garden. I found this story too delicious to resist, but I worried that the story would become stale before my comics would work through the pipeline. I think the soonest I can get something published is in about a month, perhaps a bit sooner, but I’ve never tested it.
I drew two comics while considering my options. In the end, I thought it wasn’t worth the extra friction to push them to the front of the line. And it would be June 18th before they ran in their normal position, which seemed too far in the future. So here now, exclusively for you blog readers, the totally unfinished first drafts of those comics. You will never see these in newspapers.
Take a moment to marvel at the fact that I didn’t need to add anything to the story as it has been told in the media. All it really needed was Wally. I don’t think any of us will ever know what really happened. I based the comic on the media’s speculation of events. Remember that I’m in the parody business and not the truth business.
In case you missed it – heh
Peter Watts won’t go to jail: “The absurd and awful saga of sf writer Dr Peter Watts’s adventures with the US border are finally at a close, and the news is moderately good. For those of you who missed it the first time around: Peter is a Canadian marine biologist and sf writer. He helped a friend relocate to the US, and, while driving back, found that US customs officers had opened his trunk and begun to search his car while he was in it, without saying anything. Peter had never encountered a US search on his way out of America, let alone a completely unannounced one. So he got out of his car and said something like, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ The customs officers ordered him to get back into his car and he said something like, ‘But what’s going on?’
That’s when they beat him to the slushy ground, gassed him with pepper spray and charged him with a felony (‘obstruction’). He was held in wet clothes in an unheated cell overnight during a snowstorm, then released and told to come back for his trial, where he would face up to two years in prison for his crime.
At the trial, the guards gave ridiculous, self-contradictory testimony (they said Peter had fought them), and the videos showed that Peter’s side of the story was the correct one. He got out of his car, asked a simple question, then failed to instantly obey the barked order of the customs officer. This failure to be instantly obedient is apparently all the statute required, and Peter was found guilty. His jurors subsequently found their way onto his blog and apologized, but said that the judge instructed them that they had to find guilty if Peter had been anything less than instantaneously and wholeheartedly cooperative.
Then came the sentencing recommendation. The prosecutor, after making noises about a suspended sentence, came back with a recommended six-month sentence.
That was where things stood yesterday, when Peter drove to Port Huron for his sentencing. But the judge saw some reason and suspended Peter’s sentence.
Whew.
(Thanks to everyone who sent in this great news)
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(Via Boing Boing.)
No please no
Geek Love: His and Hers Star Wars T-Shirts – Star Wars – io9: “Geek Love: His and Hers Star Wars T-Shirts
For the couple that wants to seal their love like a smuggler in Carbonite comes this matching set that captures the most romantically bad-ass exchange in all of scifi.
My lady isn’t quite geeky enough to sport these in public with me, but if you’re heading to Orlando this August for Star Wars Celebration V with your like-minded significant other, perhaps you’ll want to pick these up.”
