Half Informed

Source Tweet: @morb01 Check this video out — Big Brother ad by doubleTwist http://bit.ly/YvqWZ

Source Video: YouTube

It’s nice to see Apple get a little jab. I have no idea what the hell doubleTwist is but with Apple’s guerilla ad campaign against Microsoft with Justin Long this is Karma.

Apple long ago had the Big Brother ad as their poke at Microsoft, this was the beginning of a long campaign with an anti-Microsoft overtone hardwired deep within it’s core.  The original idea was that everyone was being controlled, brainwashed and always watched by Microsoft.

But FFWD>> on Apple to today and they have transformed into what they once swore against.

• The being controlled: Apple’s exclusive carrier privileges to AT&T  in the USA and Rogers in Canada just to name one
• Brainwashed: “Mac is a state of mind” And the overall feeling of being ‘in the club’ a Apple Product Owner feels and flaps their gums nonstop about later on. It happened.
• Watching You: Do you honestly think Genius is 100% anonymous even when they say they are not going to peek?

Now don’t get me wrong here. I am not Anti-Apple. But I don’t own a single Apple product. But I have used them and I find the Mac OS a well refined and sleek Operating System. All the native Apple apps are intuitive and using them feels easy and sententious. They are rich in features and once you get over the Windows to Mac learning curve you are set. And the inclusion of a UNIX like console is such an added bonus.

My only dislikes about Apple is the price point on the products. That and and I don’t feel like joining the herd.

Source Tweet: @JudgeCarterAt a recent Austin groundbreaking, we had a rogue photo crasher … http://tinyurl.com/kv723g

Source Article: statesman.com

We are starting off today posting about an older Tweet we did based on a tweet from @JudgeCarterwe will be back tracking some of the more interesting tweets to start.

It looks as if the Kanye West of the Austin Legal World AKA George Lobb popped in to crash the party during the ground breaking ceremonies for a new courthouse in Austin Texas.

Interloper George Lobb with his cocky grin. Photograph by Katherine Wallace

Now I can understand how this Andy Austin fellow might be upset, but I don’t understand the quote “It was almost like this Forrest Gump thing.”. Forest Gump had a great run of luck and always was respected and admired in the end by anyone close enough to know him. Mr. Austin also goes on to say “It’s going to be the photograph that you kind of look back on”. Well I sure bet this is going to be THE picture he looks back on later, he might even get a lot of chuckles or great roars of laughter all around with this one.

Just picture it now. A future Andrew Austin sitting back in his office talking to a friend “… And then there was that time when we were breaking ground for that old courthouse in Austin. And there was this jackass George Lobb and his cocky grin all the way…” when his friend cuts in “… We call him President Lobb now Andy”.

With the being said what future does this Lobb guy have in the legal system when he literally has every person responsible for the creation of the building in which he works gunning for him. Will these dusty old legal types forgive and forget? We cant peg @JudgeCarter in the dusty category, the man has Twitter and doesn’t get some publicist to do it for him… I think. But if it wasn’t for George Lobb this little event would have been just a local thing. This had people laughing all the way up in Canada where they can empathize with not wanting to be rude and asking “Excuse me? What the hell are you doing here with a Home Depot themed shovel?”

I am pondering how exactly he got in the photograph. Was this premeditated ceremony crashing? Was he just hanging out chatting with the senator and judge crew before the shot and kinda got roped in? Did he think this was an open house for anyone who passed the bar exam? The fact that he brought his own shovel and hardhat might point to premeditated. But who ever gave him a gold ceremonial shovel needs to hop on the ‘obvious bus’ or watch a little old fashioned Sesame Street. “One of these things is not like the other…”.

Well the good thing is that there were enough golden shovels to go around and Mr.Lobb did not end up with one in his inventory, though I would have liked to have seen the look on his face when the Federal Protective Service officials showed up to his home looking for a golden shovel. The fact that Mr. Lobb would go through such great lengths just to get a snap shot of him being part of the club sure shows how much he is dedicated to his future. This guy is a go-getter.

George Lobb has a dream. And we should be thankful it is not as a soldier due to his ineffective camouflage skills. We here at halfinformed.com suggest the next time George Lobb tries something like this again that he ditches the hardhat. “the nail that sticks out” kind of thing. And also not to go out on any hunting trips with the Courtroom Crowd for a while.