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07/22/09
07/22/09
07/14/09
07/14/09
"C"upcake
"D"onut
"E"clair
"F"lan
I suppose it started with "A"ndroid, but I'm not sure if there was ever a "B" update.
07/14/09
Sounds like they are following the Ubuntu naming conventions.
07/14/09
Crappy Cupcake
Disgusting Donut
Excema Eclair
Fellating Flan
Grody-to-the-Max Ganache
07/14/09
07/14/09
07/14/09
Donut?! Google please. How can you get excited about coding for a desiccated dough circle you bought while a bunch of cops glared at you like you were up to no good.
If I were running Google and wanted to excite the developer community, I would embrace Apple’s influence head on and give subsequent builds names that are part cat, part desert: Pussy flambé. Short-haired pop tart. Banana tabby. Death by Main Coon.
Who wants to bet applications for Pussy flambé would be 10 times better than for Donut?!
07/14/09
07/14/09
I think your happiness is broken.
My only regret is that Cupcake was not named Cookie. I like cookies. :-)
07/14/09
07/14/09
Donuts are a truly grand foodstuff. It has been positing by rabbinical scholars that the "manna" which YHWH provided the Israelites with was, in fact, a fried torus - a primitive beignet.
You obviously haven't had sufficient experience with all things doughy and fried. You ought start off with some zeppoli with powdered sugar, then move on to piping hot fresh made crullers, then perhaps some classic jelly-filled doughnuts with raspberry filling. With that basis, then you can venture into the world of teacakes, hamentashen, biscotti, and scones.
You have been duly warned, friendo. If you besmirch the name of the Donut again I will beat you with a double-ended dildo.
07/14/09
07/14/09
07/14/09
07/14/09
If there's a bright spot in the whole kerfuffle, it's the prospect of a double-ended dildo beating which, in the way it concludes your list of breakfast pastries, manages to sound scrumptious. I could easily see a double-ended dildo beating as some Scottish delicacy offered by a gregarious couple at their bed and breakfast, blanketed by powdered sugar, and bereft of irony.
07/14/09
07/14/09
First of all, that does not make the second donut "dessert"; it makes it "leftovers".
Second and more importantly, there is only one excuse for eating only one donut for breakfast: "I'm so full from all the bacon I just ate that I only have room for one donut."
07/14/09
Everything is better with bacon.
07/14/09
07/14/09
The only exception to the rule is Hannukah, when jelly donuts are, in fact, dessert. But given that Hannukah isn't for another 5 months, you're a bit off there.
NB: You can all thank New York for donuts. They were invented in the Empire State with the first historic mention in 1809 by Washington Irving in "The History of New York".
You're welcome, world.
07/14/09
Donuts: Is there no trivia they cannot incite? ;)
07/14/09
07/14/09
The universe is shaped like a donut. And given that New York invented the donut, New York is, in fact, the center of the universe.
07/14/09
07/14/09
07/14/09
Yonkers got its name from a corruption of the Dutch word "jonker" (meaning lawyer). Brooklyn was named after the Dutch city of the same name, Breukelen. The Bronx is a reference to its original owners, the Bronck family (hence Broncks). Staten Island literally means "State's Island".
The orange in the State flag is in reference to William of Orange.
And Manhattan's name is either Lenape for "island of many hills" or, as theorized, is actually from the Delaware Indian name for Hudson's ship "Manahachtanienk", which means "island of general drunkenness."
The second strikes me as more poetically accurate.
And you're also welcome for the potato chip, which New York invented.
07/14/09
07/14/09
Sorry, no dessert for me. :p
06/10/09
06/10/09
06/10/09
Ginger, you let me down again. I was hoping to see a robot that makes cupcakes. Don't tease me like that. I've got a nice stack of bricks in my office that I was saving for my IT guy's head but if you continue to tease me with promises of dessert-droids, I will happily lob one at you.
06/10/09
06/10/09
06/10/09
You can't swing a dead cat in NYC without hitting someone named matt b.
06/10/09
06/04/09
Using that logic, HTC could have used this photo as a clue to the Lancaster phone:
Additionally, if there's anything that neither the Blackberry Bold, Apple iPhone, or Palm Pre can be described, it's "an unlikeable vile hunchbacked cripple".
And yes, I know that there is no historical proof of it and that the play was little more than propaganda to legitimize Elizabeth.
06/04/09
What???
06/04/09
Brian Bosworth. Battle of Bosworth. Battle of Bosworth.
Henry Tudor, Earl of Lancashire, of the House of Lancaster, was the Hero of the Battle of Bosworth.
05/29/09
05/29/09
dxtop wasn't up to date and Cupcake wouldn't play nice with it. At least that's my best guess considering how it locked up the desktop. Had to take out the battery and then update DXtop and "poof" I can now savor the sugary sweetness of yummy cupcake, it's fucking awesome BTW
05/29/09
05/29/09
05/29/09
I was excited for Cupcake in mid April. but as time went on and it became clear that it would arrive in late April or even by mid May, my enthusiasm dwindled. I'd hope in the future that updates don't turn into the drawn out cluster fuck that Cupcake turned out to be. I don't have the patience to go through this again.
05/26/09
05/26/09