The bird bird bird, the bird is the word. Or is the word the bird?

Thanks for the sweet bird-word artwork Lenny!

We had an interesting talk over lunch yesterday, pizza by the way, one kind (I kid you not!) had french fries, bacon and roasted garlic on it. Seriously. But I digress, we were thinking big thoughts about the future, you know, once all this core stuff is in the bag, and how we would like to integrate some fun social networking features into the application, which naturally leads us to you. How do you currently use social networks? How do you share music? Do you see these things connecting? We set up a discussion in Get Satisfaction if you want to hop in with your grand ideas. We know you got ‘em!

For those of you wondering where the heck 1.3 is, blame Preed. No, no, just kidding, blame the government.

Preed spent last week dispensing justice and serving the City and County of San Francisco on jury duty. Now that the case is closed, Preed was able to sit down and give me all the juicy details. First and foremost they found the defendant guilty. Twice. Guilty of what, you ask? Burglary and petty theft. The items in question were three bottles of Gentleman’s Jack and two bottles of Jack Daniel’s. Upon hearing that the first day, Preed knew this was the case for him! (“Hey, at least he had some taste in his whiskey!”) He got a chance to exercise his superior critical thinking skills on something other than code while learning the statutes for burglary and petty theft and how it pertained to the defendant. The complexity comes in as apparently we all break 3 of the 4 requisites for petty theft every time we go into a store as moving an item without permission is apparently verboten (can you imagine having to say):

Excuse me sir, may I please place these eggs into my shopping cart? okthxbai!

The fact that the defendant wasn’t… the most “socially well-adjusted” individual and kept yelling in the courtroom and this was the district attorney’s first case (aww) just added to the entertainment!

Preed said he’d never look at a bottle of Jack the same way again, and had a little chuckle to himself while buying a bottle last weekend. We can all hold our heads high knowing Preed dispensed justice with an iron fist for all:

Oh and now that he’s back 1.3 will be coming right up!