by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 1, 2013 | Asides, Commentary, Featured
It’s just like if you go to Cooperstown right now, there’s 15 of my artifacts in the Hall of Fame. You walk in the commissioner’s office, in New York, [and] they got a board with hits, games, at-bats. My name’s at the top of all of them.I...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 27, 2013 | Asides
The usual delicious goodness from John Gruber. When All You Have Is an ‘Apple Is Doomed Without Steve Jobs’ Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 27, 2013 | Asides
Crazy, heartbreaking, and anger-inducing: After the April 2011 attack, Ms. Messick completed basic training, following orders from the instructor for nearly a month more. Afraid of the consequences, she did not tell anyone what he had done. “How am I supposed to go...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 26, 2013 | Asides
I am not a huge Tarantino fan, but I have to say that, so far, this is crazy interesting reading… It began with calls where he was just reading pages to me,’ she continues. Then came more urgent calls, asking her to join him for midnight dinners. Chen always had...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 25, 2013 | Asides
I agree. I wholeheartedly agree… It wasn’t indignation over the decision to dilute the whiskey or even anger, really, I felt. Rather, it was sadness. Another layer on our ever-thickening patina of loss. True, Americans have experienced great gains in recent...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 21, 2013 | Asides
If you didn’t already love Jony Ive, you will after this. Be sure to watch to the end, last few bits are the absolute best. Jony Ive on Blue Peter via Daring Fireball