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Delayed Ion Drum Rockers From Amazon

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jk
on September 17, 2008
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I was sad to find out that my order of the sweet Rock Band drum set has been delayed this morning. /cry.

They were supposed to get here today, but it looks like their estimation has moved to the 23rd.

This really puts a damper on my weekend rocking plans. I guess it just means I have to go rock out somewhere else. Through sweet code.

Face-melting solo? Check.

Small posts feel so weird. It’s like in that land between Twitterville and Essaytropolis. It’s like I’m on the highway, with a blown tire, not knowing if you walk one way or the other.

EDIT: Looks like there is some discrepancy as to how Amazon figures out the priority for shipping these things. I ordered mine on the 20th of August, and by the looks of it, no one else on the Rock Band forum had ordered these before me… but yet, these people are getting it earlier. Called Amazon, and they’ll be getting stuff in stock on Friday. This is still garbage though. I should call again and ask for a discount.

Apple’s Taking a Beating on the Markets…

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jk
on April 17, 2007
in Apple and Investing & Finances
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Apple released a statement on the 12th (and in a few weeks, this is going to be the wrong link), with my commentary, as much as I can remember having on that day:

iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is.

Yes, Mr. Jobs. We want to give you money! We knew June. Of course, a nice rebate would be good.

[Sidenote: By the way, I'm most likely not going to get one. Why? Two reasons: Programmability and Power.]

However,

I don’t likes the looks of thissss.

iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.

“We screwed up. But you still love us, right?”

Of course, Mr. Jobs. We love you. Here, have some more money. When’s Leopard coming out so I know to save up my $150?

While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October.

October? Wasn’t the original date Spring 2007? What, is Apple pulling a Vista?

We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]

But of course, had I known this announcement would be made the day after I started my IRA Roth… if I knew about Leopard missing the already pushed back deadline… if I knew the market would look like this for the week to follow:

APPL

Blah.

This post made by an ex-Apple employee definitely sums up the possible reason as to why… things are becoming shaky, just a tiny bit.

Okay… This Isn’t Going to Work

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jk
on February 4, 2007
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I have two gigantic posts, ready to go.

However, they’re both quite large. And they don’t cover half the stuff I want to cover about the stuff I’ve learned during the Winter retreat.

Therefore… here’s my deal:

I’ll post one winter retreat per “technical” post I write, as Danny put it. This way, I won’t be just focusing on diving much too deep into once specific topic.

Tomorrow. Yes… tomorrow is going to be one crazy day. Sorry about the delay, folks.