I saw this on daring fireball.com today. Geek humor at its best.
David Worthington interviews his Mom about the iPad, and it leads to this priceless exchange. Suzanne Somers. I almost peed my pants.
“ Slater demanded an apology from the passenger, the official said, but the passenger refused. The two argued before the passenger told Slater to “f— off”, the official said. The official said that Slater then got on the plane’s PA system and directed that same obscenity at all the passengers and added that he especially meant it for the man who refused to apologize. Slater is alleged to have then activated the plane’s inflatable emergency slide, grabbed two beers from the galley, then slid down the chute, the official said. ”
As a tech nerd one of my favorite things to do is to fire up a newsreader in the morning and scan through the latest articles on engadget, wired, daringfireball, techcrunch, et al. Sadly, the signal to noise ratio has become completely unbearable. It seems that when leaving comments online, it’s a race to the bottom. Thankfully between the text layout on Pulse and Safari’s Reader, I have flipped the switch and tuned out the crowd.
It’s too bad, because there are probably some people out there with something genuinely interesting to add to the discussion.