• F Stavrakopoulou:
  How I laughed at this Jesus joke! It is a joke, right? Right?? Oh. Oh dear. pic.twitter.com/0GG0Kl9JBq

• Lex Friedman:
  Gave a new talk at Úll about how developers can learn from Apple’s mistakes. Also cohosted a live episode of Unprofessional. Also got tired.

@lexfri “Don’t ship a 26-pound product and name it the Portable.”

• Jeff Carlson:
  Twitterrific getting connection errors on my Mac, so I’m using http://Twitter.com . How do people use this shit Web version?

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffcarlson Whiskey helps.

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jcenters Good idea! I’m editing TidBITS right now, what could possibly go wrong? Up next, the Flenn Gleishmon issue!

@jeffcarlson @jcenters “Too many people have joined TidBITS, which is aged for 21 years. So we reduced editorial accuracy to 85%.”

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jeffporten @jcenters “This statement may or may not be 85% accurate.”

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffcarlson @jeffporten Margin of error: +/- 15%

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Apple’s internal disinformation team will ensure press buzzing about biomedicine requiring digital suppository. Then Samsung Ream announced.

@GlennF Talk about a market segment where thinner is better….

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF Don’t forget chamfered edges.

@jcenters @glennf If chamfer is a kind of cologne, yes, that would also be useful.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @chuq @jeffporten @jeffcarlson @jcenters @chrishiggins 2,000 subscriptions, and you get to kill the others.

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @chuq @jeffporten @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins Do authors who’ve had multiple articles published get more chances at being killed?

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @chuq @jeffporten @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins Because if so, @lexfri is in a boat of trouble.

@jcenters @glennf @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins Chance of death reduced 2% per child, so @lexfri is immune until 2018.

• Josh Centers:
  @chrishiggins @jeffcarlson @GlennF Hmm.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffcarlson @jcenters @chrishiggins I am keeping myself off Jeopardy by selling The Magazine subscriptions

• Jeff Carlson:
  @GlennF @jcenters @chrishiggins Can I also sell The Magazine subscriptions? Do I need to go door-to-door?

@jeffcarlson @glennf @jcenters @chrishiggins I earned a 3-speed bike and a baseball with door-to-door sales of The Magazine, Grit version.

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jeffporten @glennf @jcenters @chrishiggins I jumped the gun and earned a restraining order and a punch in the eye. Future of media my ass.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffcarlson @jeffporten @jcenters @chrishiggins For every 1,000 The Magazine subscriptions you sell, you live another month.

@jeffcarlson @glennf @jcenters @chrishiggins Was that the prize BB gun you jumped?

• chuq von rospach:
  @jeffporten @jeffcarlson @GlennF @jcenters @chrishiggins you’ll shoot your eye out!

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @jeffcarlson @jeffporten @chrishiggins If you’re a good enough salesman, immortality is within reach.

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins @lexfri Ah, the ol’ Catholic Clause.

• Lex Friedman:
  @jcenters @jeffporten @GlennF @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins I am the world’s worst catholic.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @lexfri @jcenters @jeffporten @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins That’s why Lex is Ireland. He’s getting converted from Jew-C to C.C.

• Chris Higgins:
  @lexfri @jcenters @jeffporten @glennf @chuq @jeffcarlson Not as bad as the guy who didn’t sell his quota.

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @lexfri @jeffporten @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins In Ireland, they baptize with whiskey.

@GlennF @jeffcarlson @jcenters @chrishiggins Founder: Marco Arment. Executive Editor: Glenn Fleishman. Circulation Manager: Jim Jones.

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jcenters @GlennF @chuq @jeffporten @chrishiggins @lexfri Little known fact. We’ve been sending assassins after Lex for years. He’s too good

@jeffcarlson @jcenters @glennf @chuq @chrishiggins @lexfri “There are very few tall Jews in the world. Would be a shame to ruin this one.”

• Andrew Laurence:
  Watching Astaire/Rogers “Carefree”. In the “Yam” number, Rogers’ dress looks like a pair of reach-around boob grabbing hands. Really! #fb

@atlauren That wasn’t her dress, that was Irving Berlin riding her back and composing the next verse on the fly.

I predict the term “skunkworks” will lose favor after we learn how to build small mammals out of nanoparticles.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Brain Quest quiz, present from grandparents: “Which are reindeers? Dasher, Dancer, Pancake, and Comet.” Children laughed for 10 minutes.

• Chris Higgins:
  @GlennF I could’ve sworn one reindeer was named Comcast.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @chrishiggins Comcast and Blixxxen.

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @chrishiggins Comcast and Bitcoin.

@jcenters @glennf @chrishiggins Bitcoin was put on rest leave after she flew from LA to NYC in 3 minutes, then took 8 days for Chicago.

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF @chrishiggins Later to be traded for FedEx heroin.

@jcenters @glennf @chrishiggins Santa stopped doing business with FedEx after the Great Elf Shipwreck Disaster of 1997.

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @jeffcarlson They’re both lousy businesses. But the idea is probably to test iOS on different screen sizes.

@jcenters @glennf @jeffcarlson Scoop: the 50″ diagonal iPad maxi. Still marginally more portable than a Surface Pro.

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF @jeffcarlson The iDoor.

• Jeff Carlson:
  @GlennF @jcenters And I would bet that there’s something to every rumor. Apple has the ability to tinker. But most important: patience.

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffcarlson @GlennF Oh I’m sure there’s a TV and a watch in Ive’s lab. Doesn’t mean they’re real products or good ideas.

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jcenters @GlennF Absolutely. And probably enough of an outline to execute quickly if absolutely necessary. See: iPod development.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffcarlson @jcenters I look at where the money is. TV is a crap business. Watches aren’t that great, really. Why get into either space

• Jeff Carlson:
  @GlennF @jcenters TV is a crap business. But Living Room has potential. Except: Are people still consuming in a centralized room?

“@jeffcarlson: @GlennF @jcenters But Living Room has potential. Except: Are people still consuming in a centralized room?” // The kitchen.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jcenters @chrishiggins @jeffcarlson It’s a “jump to conclusions” watch! You jump—to conclusions!

• Jeff Carlson:
  @GlennF @jcenters @chrishiggins See, Fleishman, now I have to kill you. After we beat the crap out of a photocopier.

Is there a pref or defaults setting to make TextEdit open a new doc when launched, instead of the iCloud splash?

• Geoff Duncan:
  @jeffporten I think the only way to have TextEdit open w/new doc instead of iCloud is turning off “Documents & Data” in iCloud system prefs.

@geoffduncan Or by making a TextEdit launch application with AppleScript, I suppose.

I’m at Port Authority Bus Terminal (New York, NY) w/ 20 others http://4sq.com/112x6Q1 

• Kirk McElhearn:
  @jeffporten More likely with a few thousand others.

Just set a new personal record for “speed at which I lose the rubber earbud from newly purchased headphones.”