The Breakroom

We’re back folks! Fresh and rested from our annual holiday break, the workers are eager to get the new year off and running by cranking up the assembly line and getting back in the pixellated groove. Every year at this time we dust off our WACOM tablets and sort through the thousands of Spams built up over the break, and our thoughts inevitably turn to that little ol’ thing called MacWorld and the city of San Fransisco.

As our old friend Tony Bennett once said ”…high on a hill, it calls to me.” This year, more than any in recent memory, the pull of the City by the Bay and Steve’s Reality distortion field™ seems to be in maximum overdrive. Unfortunately we blew all our air fare on Wii remotes and Bigfoot action figures this Christmas, so we’ll be tracking the rumored 2 hour keynote thanks to our favorite Mac news and gadget websites from the cushy comfort of our office chairs. But for those lucky enough to see the man in person, MacWorld 2007 seems to hold the promise of something special.

Will we see the iTV in action? Will we be lining up to say “Adios!” to our old fashion cell phones in favor of Apple’s long-rumored

As we were skimming through the servers stats this morning we noticed an unusual spike and started investigating. You may have read an entry at Daring Fireball yesterday pointing out the apparent misappropriation of an Apple icon on Microsoft’s ordering page for Windows Vista Business. We scoured our referral logs and discovered that a post about it at theappleblog had hit Digg and the comments on both were beginning to fill with wild speculation.

We thought we should post a quick blurb to respond to most of the comments referencing us. We had nothing to do with the icon in question. To our knowledge it is an Apple icon that has been used in Mac OS X Server software for years and was created by designers at Apple.

That’s about it. Nothing more to see here. Move along please. Thanks!

WARNING: if you are a vegetarian then we advise you to skip this post. Nothing to see here, move along. But if you enjoy a good hearty steak, or just about any other mouth watering cut of meat you can think of, then this one is for you!

Each year around this time, the workers get themselves psyched up for our annual Christmas dinner which is affectionately called “The night of meat”. The Greensboro crew and their families will be heading out to Leblon Churrascaria Brazilian Steakhouse. What’s so special about this dining occasion you ask? The answer is hard to put into words since our mouths are usually filled with delicious food. Basically, the gauchos bring pit-cooked meat on skewers and hand cut portions for you all night long. From flank steak and leg of lamb to top sirloin and beef tenderloin, its a meat eaters heaven. They even have a clever system to avoid confusion when serving consisting of place cards that have a green “give me more!” symbol on one side, and a red “I’ll never eat meat again” symbol on the other. That’s an exaggeration, but you get the idea.

If you are ever in Greensboro, we highly recommend Leblon, the service is great and the bang for the buck cannot be beat. Just don’t be tempted by the salad bar… more croutons now means less prime rib later! Now if you’ll excuse us, we have to go prepare ourselves mentally. When we finish we usually feel like Joey from that episode of Friends where he eats the entire turkey.

If you have not read or seen the recent hilarious posting by Kotaku about Nintendo’s Safety Manual from Japan, go take a look. Once you do, this entire post will make much more sense.

Thanks to one of our clients in Japan, who just happens to work for one of the printing companies Nintendo regularly uses, we are pleased to be able to bring you scans of some of the missing diagrams from the Wii Safety Manual. These helpful instructions somehow got cut from the final, shipping version but are no less important when it comes to proper handling of the Wii. Head on over to our Flickr page to check them out, but be prepared, the Japanese have a strange sense of humor.

UPDATE: Okay, we cannot tell a lie. We made it all up! But can you blame us really? It was begging to be done. :-)

UPDATE 2: Be sure to grab the ultra swanky Wii Safety desktop pictures in two amazing colors (teal and ecru) for your computer desktop!

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