“Plaintiff … was sitting at his desk with his Apple iTouch in the off position in his pant’s pocket … [He] heard a loud pop and immediately felt a burning sensation on his leg … [He] immediately stood up and realized his Apple iTouch had exploded and caught on fire in his pocket … [He] immediately ran to the bathroom and took off his burning pants with the assistance of a friend … [and discovered that] the Apple iTouch had burned through [his] pants pocket and melted through his Nylon/Spandex underwear, burning his leg.”
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size. 11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
