…and all they have on YouTube are music files with pictures because NBC takes sharing violations seriously…ugh.

Yesterday some friends and I were talking and they referenced “Ras Trent,” and since I don’t watch much TV (except what’s on Hulu.com) I had no idea what they were talking about. After failing to find it on YouTube and mentioning that they didn’t know of a real iPhone app to watch Hulu, I decided to look it up today. And instead of just watching it and (hopefully) laughing, I decided to share the video on this blog (courtesy of Hulu.)

I am now in the loop. And it turns out I know 20 of this guy.

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So I went to Willows for Thanksgiving with my Lomo fisheye planning on taking all sorts of badass, artsy photos, but instead I just got drunk the whole time. So instead you’ll have to settle for some bullshit I took with my iPhone camera which is sort of like a polaroid only not as cool.

And as proof of my profound inebriation, not that you need any, I present my feeble attempt to document the uniquely bucolic and whimsical magic that is the Long Way Home Saloon:

Guess you’ll have to go there to see what’s cracking. Just don’t try to drive home. The police in Willows are increasingly fascist and unforgiving. But I guess it’s just because they’re probably bored out of their damn minds. Anyways, I’ll try to do better next time or whatever, but film processing is getting expensive and I’m not made out of money, which is obvious by the fact that I’m spending my vacations in Willows as opposed to the more balmy climes enjoyed by my colleagues, but hey! If there’s one good thing about writing, its definitely not that it pays well! Or that it’s rewarding in really any other way, other than being the job that takes probably the most minimal amount of effort this side of being the Maytag guy. But at least that guy is Union and probably gets vision, and retirement. Only retirement I got is the baseball cards in my closet, but those ain’t worth shit anymore. So I guess I’ll have to live now and figure the rest out later, which is easy because later doesn’t come until after now. And even when it does, there’s always another later after that. Until there’s not. Then you’re fucked.

Fucking thank god:

Upon a direct question from the audience, Paul Betlem for the first time publicly confirmed that Adobe is actively developing a Flash Player for Apple’s popular phone. He said (not direct quote) “My team is working on Flash on the iPhone, but it’s a closed platform.” He noted that Apple makes all the decisions, so in other words, the ball is in Apple’s yard at this time. If Apple says yes, Adobe will have the player available in a very short time.

According to founder Tim Westergren, yes:

Founder Tim Westergren has stated that the service is approaching a “pull-the-plug kind of decision” for the service. Why is this happening? Last year, web radio giants were hit with outrageously ridiculous fees by a federal panel for every song that would be played on their stations. This caused a lot of services to either shutdown, or go through what Pandora has been experiencing for the past year. In doing so, it seems the financial problems the music industry has set out to create in order to win the constant battle between rights, piracy, and copyrighted music, are working.

I didn’t even know they had an app for the iPhone, fuckers. Hopefully they don’t fuck off for at least a couple of more days so I have a chance to try it out, figure out that it sucks and move on to something better.

The Synthesis is admittedly a little smug when it comes to the Mac v. PC debate. We have a decent amount of Mac Minis, a series of random Mac desktops and a few MacBooks floating around the office at all times. Is it really necessary that we rock such killer machines for writing blogs and looking at celebrity pr0n? Of course! We’re in the business of serving up internetz, and with that comes a certain responsibility to look hip and trendy and shit. Oh, and to do the massive amount of editing it takes to bring you our Manchild Drink Beer webisodes. Here’s some other super famous people that made the switch.

Oh, and of course Dave Chappelle.