You only dodge them when you don’t marry them.  He didn’t dodge this one; he was just lucky that the wound wasn’t fatal.

and her father was an Irish immigrant. He “came here legally, lawfully, not cutting the line,” she said.

I think he at least got grazed.

Man...Gavin dodged a bullet.  

“Four more years of Donald Trump! I say that every chance I get, I just like to trigger the left...”

Mad Mike is gone but the Earth is still a-round...

I’ll see myself out

So is he now the flattest flat Earther?

How long before Fox News is running stories about how global warming doesn’t exist, but if it does, it could make your next flight shorter?

Alas poor Yorick...

Oh ya I remember the days. Wasn’t it crazy that somehow, you couldn’t use email on that device unless it was tethered to your Blackberry?

I honestly do miss the physical keyboard though

Lol I remember when I had to carry both a Blackberry (paid by work) and an iPhone (that I paid for).  It was super easy to see which would stick around.  

There’s a great podcast on how and why Kodak failed.  It wasn’t for lack of innovation, they were actually pioneers in digital film, the execs at the top didn’t like that the new products had a lower profit margin so they kept boosting the products with the higher margin not seeing the end in sight for them.

In 2009 I sat through an uninspiring seminar given by Blackberry’s VP of Marketing for North America. During Q&A, a woman held up her iPhone and asked, “What are you going to do about this?”

“Playbook” is still the best name for a tablet ever...so sad it was wasted on such a pathetic device.

It’s honestly a shame because a physical keyboard just works so much better with smartphones than a virtual one. But, alas. Non-removable batteries and no physical keyboards seems to be the way of all things going forward, unfortunately.

A really good read on Blackberry’s history and demise is: Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry

I, for one, cannot wait to pickup a crappy underpowered android tablet at walmart with the blackberry name slapped on it.

it’s amazing what happens when a company decides it has peaked and that no one can touch them so they don’t need to innovate.

From king of the world to sharing the same house as the RCA/Victor/Poloraoid names and fighting for market scraps.