I usually don't spend time writing about the funny things I read on the net - face it, there's just too much of it to really write about, but this morning there are a few things from Daring Fireball that are just too funny to not pass on.
The first is from Fake Steve on a conversation he had with the CEO of AT&T. In it he says of the talk about the coming soon data limiting plans from AT&T:
He launches into a mumbling spiel about how Ralph de la Vega didn’t really say what all the papers are saying he said, and he was misquoted, and it was taken out of context, but I’m like, Bitch, please, guys at our level don’t get taken out of context, we write the shit out in advance and we know exactly what we’re saying when we say it and every goddamn word has been vetted and gone over by a team of flacks. So please don’t sit there like a zoo monkey throwing your own feces at me through the bars of your cage, bokay?
I laughed out loud on that one. It goes to say:
I stopped, then. There was nothing on the line. Silence. I said, Randall? He goes, Yeah, I’m here. I said, Does any of that make sense? He says, Yeah, but we’re still not going to do it. See, when you run the numbers what you find is that we’re actually better off running a shitty network than making the investment to build a good one. It’s just numbers, Steve. You can’t charge enough to get a return on the investment.
I hope that eventually, AT&T will come to their senses and make a decent network for the load. If it takes them losing a ton of customers to balance out the demand, or regulation, or something... I'm hopeful that things will turn around for AT&T.
The next funny was about the fake Walt Mossberg on the CrunchPad-cum-JoJo. If even half of what the sock puppet said was true, then it's an interesting turn of events. I'm not one to think it's OK for folks to go back on their words, but I'm a bigger believer in karma, and you reap what you sew.
These both made me laugh a good deal. Just what I needed this morning.
