Archive for the 'Jackassery' Category
“We never used PCs” School throws out working Macs
Posted August 11th, 2009 by Ryu at 1:21 am in Institutions and Jackassery. CommentsWhy school-based Mac User Groups are a terrible idea
Posted July 30th, 2009 by Ryu at 1:28 am in Institutions and Jackassery. CommentsThis is a tale of something good going horribly bad when it falls into the wrong hands.
I was probably the first person who really injected life into the establishment known as MacNUS, despite not being the founder. Lots of events, lots of ideas for improvement, lots of pushing the establishment and improving the status quo [...]
Words of idiocy from idiots
Posted July 30th, 2009 by Ryu at 12:45 am in Events, Humor and Jackassery. Comments28th July 2009
Girl working at Apple booth, sent from Apple SG:
“The current Mini Displayport adapters totally don’t work for doing presentations. My old MacBook and MacBook Air adapters do, but the new ones don’t. Apple probably got something wrong in the design”.
29th July 2009
Guy working at Apple booth, sent from Apple SG:
“You can install on [...]
Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz tries to cover Steve Jobs’ health screwup through misleading article
Posted January 5th, 2009 by Ryu at 11:29 pm in Jackassery, Rumors and Steve Jobs. CommentsGizmodo and Jesus Diaz is getting out of hand.
Instead of posting some kind of apology for screwing up the Apple stock prices after the release of Steve’s and Apple’s statement earlier today, they went again and posted a disgusting article about how they were right after all.
Are they?
In this original article, they claimed that [...]
Adobe should burn in hell
Posted April 3rd, 2008 by Ryu at 10:47 pm in Jackassery, Leopard, Mac OS X and Microsoft. CommentsPhotoshop sucks. Adobe sucks. Everyone gets a kick out of pirating Adobe software, just like how everyone does with each pirated copy of Microsoft software.
No 64-bit Photoshop for Mac till CS5? You know what, Adobe? You can keep your CS5 for yourself and your Microsoft bitches.
Photoshop will become irrelevant in 2 years. Die. Photoshop. Die [...]
“Nike, can I have a free pair of shoes since I wear your logo on them?”
Posted November 10th, 2007 by Ryu at 10:32 pm in Jackassery. CommentsThis piece of “news” is a few days old but I thought I’ll publish it anyway.
ShuffleArt, a good friend of mine and a partner during the MacNUS days, forwarded the following email to me. The email was sent by, apparently, a NUS student named Hxx Xxx.
Hi XXXXX,
I’m currently a NUS student and got to know [...]
Horrible mistake by NS Portal admins/writers
Posted September 5th, 2007 by Ryu at 2:22 pm in Jackassery. CommentsCheck out this page. Some idiot from the NS Portal actually used a picture of Steve Jobs in an article about Microsoft Powerpoint. This is totally absurb and unacceptable. So someone shot them an email. Here is the email replicated in its (almost) entirety.
“Dear in charge,
I refer to your article posted at http://……. in [...]
