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ZOMFGWTFBBQ CITIZEN CAKE. WHY ARE YOUR CUPCAKES LIKE DELICIOUS DELICIOUS CRACK??

I mean seriously, what the shit. I have never eaten anything like this. Hazelnut sugar frosting on a perfectly moist angel food cake? Lemon cupcakes topped with frosting and with these cigarette like things made of powdered sugar and lemon that crumble when you touch them? Are you in league with the debbil?

The Story So Far...

Arrived on Friday night to not much fanfare - flight delay made me miss the hours of public transportation, so I had to shell out for a cab from the airport to my door. However, the guy renting me the apartment was awesome and basically supplied me with breakfast for the week, so that balances things out okay.

Saturday I met up with rotting_orange and usagi_moon at the Exploratorium, which is basically a science museum on steroids, with a bit of goth and industrial sensibility thrown in for good measure. Seriously, the people in the workshop must be NIN fans, with the freaky lit up robots and decaying flesh and embryo exhibits and the fashion displays of people wearing post-apocalyptic clothing from the "Derelicte" collection.

So the peeps and I hung out there for a few hours playing with SCIENCE, and hung out at my place for a bit to get changed to go to a club, and also got foodz at a place called Eddie Rickenbackers, which is in part staffed by a huge invalid dude hooked up to an oxygen tank who watches the Hitler Channel at a high volume and also by a twenty-five pound orange cat named Mr. Higgins. No really. The place also has about USD 1,000,000 worth of antique motorcycles hanging from the ceiling. It's a little weird eating your dinner with the belly of an Indian right over your head.

We went to a place called DNA Lounge, which was basically a geekier version of Man Ray (mainly because they have a bunch of Linux terminals all over the club). Apparently it's co-owned by a Netscape founder or something. But we had a few drinks and stuff there and shot the shit a little, then wrapped up the evening.

Sunday morning I got up bright and early and went to the Moscone Center to pick up my badge for the conference. I waited outside with about 75 other people for the doors to open, then went right up and got my badge. They gave me a sweet "tour" t-shirt with iPhone icons on it delineating the time and place of the WWDC, and a laptop bag. Next came brunch with meerkitty at Citizen Crack. Holy carpola. Amazing brunch and baked GREATS. I had a pain au chocolat from them for breakfast this morning... it was SO nom nom nom. Meerkitty got a hair cut, then proceeded to run me up a mountain for the rest of the day, and I took pics of natures.

I am quite glad that I've been hitting the treadmill nigh constantly for the last month. It's basically been training for the hills of San Francisco. OH GODZ THE HILLZ!!!

Lots of pictures to come when I have time to mess with them. End of Part One.

COMING SOON: Part Two, Stevie Jobber and the Philosopher's iPhone

Don't Hate Me...

Everybody's posting about how hot it is back East.

It's actually a little bit chilly in my basement apartment here... :o :o

Liveblogging WWDC

10:05: Steve just came onstage

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My Take On WWDC So Far

iPhone is clearly the Microsoft Office killer. It may be anecdotal, but everyone knows that the majority of work that's done on computers in Offices all over the world is done in Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). The absolute most key thing that was said in today's keynote was "iPhones run Office". Integration with Exchange is great, but most smartphones do that anyway, especially with Windows CE out there. But there's now no reason to get anything but an iPhone for work purposes. The Enterprise distribution and other integration capabilities really erase all doubt from an IT manager's minds.

Or does it? Can you think of any reason to not support iPhones at your office? All I ever see is pain when the IT guys try supporting the Motorola Q's at my workplace (they crap out constantly for all kinds of reasons), and IT flat out won't support any other phones because of compatibility issues. How happy would the IT guys be with not having to explain how the phone works to people, and have to worry about configuring everything on the phone or buying third party apps to do sync with the mail server?

Answering The Burning Question

Yes, I will buy one of the new iPhones. But I'm not doing it until I pay off all my debts this year.

Doing The Math

5200 attendees - at $200 an iPhone, that's USD 1,000,000 to give each developer a 3G iPhone. It's a drop in the bucket if he sells another 10 million of the damn things (USD 2,000,000,000). And it'd only be a month early... they probably wouldn't even be activateable as phones until 7/11. Can you imagine the uproar and publicity from doing that? Can you imagine the developer loyalty engendered by doing that?

I'm still holding on to my fantasy dammit.

Mac App Requests

If you do have requests regarding particular applications or OS things, please do send them along to me. I apparently have many, many more ins than I imagined; tonight I met something like half the superstars of the indie Mac developer community, and my WPI chums can probably introduce me to anyone else I ask about...

I even met the guy who wrote the first app I bought: Delicious Library (remember that book scanning thing I raved about?). And I got to tell him I loved it, and he was very very happy to hear that.

I'm so far very impressed with the development community; both internal to Apple and with external indie developers. Very smart people, very open source mentality, very driven towards quality.

Tonight's Cupcake of the Gods

Ginger spice cake with lime frosting. Can I have an amen?

My Dad Raps On MTV

http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2008/06/09/artist-of-the-week-nerd/

Check out the clip halfway down titled "ROCK STAR Dive Bar Remix"