Ölbaum’s Delirium

I’m aware that this product has not even been rumoured yet and nobody outside Google knows what’s in store, but Smarrow, the result of the acquisition by Google of the Sparrow e-mail client, is already my all-time favourite Gmail/Google Reader/Google+/Google Groups/Google Maps/Google Mashed Potatoes Home Delivery client for Mac and iOS, though it lacks ludicrous-res graphics for the triple-Retina iPhone 5 that will ship on August 7th, which will be a show-stopper for some. As expected, the Android version is less polished and lacks a few features, but it’s more open by a good 15°, so it’s winning.

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Multiple reports from highly trusted sources confirm that Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife.

This is so exciting! It will certainly strengthen Apple’s position in research and engineering departments.

Note: I know rumours sites never do this, but for the sceptical, here’s a roundup of these reports:

From R:

Ölbaum’s Delirium: Hi
ÖD: Could you tell me that you think Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife?
Trusted Source: I think that Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife.
ÖD: Thank you.

From S:

Ölbaum’s Delirium: Do you think Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife? Answer with yes or yes.
Trusted Source: yes

From T:

Ölbaum’s Delirium: Hi
Trusted Source: hi
ÖD: Can you help me test something?
TS: yes
ÖD: How does this sentence display in your chat window: “Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife.”?
TS: Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife
ÖD: OK, that’s done, thank you
TS: you’r wellcome

From S:

Ölbaum’s Delirium: Can you access this web page: Coffee ?
Trusted Source: yes
ÖD: What do you read?
TS: Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife.
ÖD: Thanks
TS: You’re welcome

From Apple’s own OS:

sh-2.05b$ echo Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife.
Apple will shortly release a wireless coffee machine that integrates with iLife.

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Swiss International Air Lines is not doing well and is asking for help from the Swiss government, again. Fortunately, the procedure has been standardised last time it happened. It involves:

• Firing the current directors, giving them an indecent amount of money in compensation;
• Hiring a new board of directors, paying them an indecent amount of money each year;
• Renaming the company, by truncating its former name;
• Offering it an indecent amount of money to get it started.

Granted, this is nothing new. It was known in 2001, when Swissair was renamed Swiss, that it would happen again. What’s new however is a rumour concerning the composition of the new board of directors.

A major player in this year’s economical events is foreseen to bring Sw back to the top: Darl McBride, President and Chief Executive Officer of the SCO Group. In case the name rings a bell, the SCO Group is ill-known for a recent succession of hallucinated claims about the ownership of part of the Linux code, as well as a lawsuit against IBM accusing them of bringing stolen Unix code to Linux. In case it doesn’t ring any bell, don’t bother; someone has enough bells ringing in his cranium already, in spite of anything else. McBride is also believed to be the founder and president of the American Society for the Safekeeping of Harmful Organisations and Ludicrous Executives.

His strategy for Sw is expected to follow the same plan of action that brought SCO to its apogee this summer, including:

• Claiming ownership of the airplane trademark;¹
• Suing Boeing for stealing planes from Sw and selling them to Lufthansa;²
• Accusing other airlines of stealing secret memos from Sw, without which they would have never thought of making people pay to travel long distances by plane;³
• Enjoining Lufthansa passengers to pay a license fee of $5000 per hour of flight in an airplane, because it was stolen from Sw;⁴
• Accusing physics teachers of disclosing Sw trade secrets, like Bernoulli’s principle;⁵
• Removing one olive to the salads served for lunch in business class. Wait, I forgot, this has already been done.

With this plan, no doubt that Sw will be back in no time, ready for two more years of catastrophic management before asking for more money from the government.

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