tell application "Gulfstream IV"
  move
to cruising altitude
end tell

on nearSpeedOfSound
  count
with shares until smuglySatisfied = true
end

tell application "stewardess"
  rename to genderNeutral "refreshment operative"
  bring me "Vodkatini"
and "Jolt Cola"
  say "really neat" x 30
end tell

tell application "Steve Jobs"
  read "Wall Street Journal"
  make phoneCall
to broker
  sell 1%
of shares in Akamai
  buy island
in Pacific, possibly Maui
end tell

on phoneCall from "Motorola"
  ask "Why are we nowhere near 1GHz yet
    and Intel are waving
    fast chips around like a five-star
    McDonald's employee"
  accept grovelling apology

  listen while lackey explains that it doesn't matter
    as high-end Mac users will buy what they're
    given, until time comes to a stop
  sip Martini
  ring Transmeta, anyway
end

tell application "Steve Jobs"
  wave "swatch of plastics"
  look at each
until (the swirly lime psychedelic
    one is found)
end tell

ring "Apple product design group"
  tell application "Jonathan Ives"
    say "hey, Jonathan, I've found a colour so vile
      that it'll completely distract people's attention
      next time we drop the CPU speed"
  end tell
  congratulate me
  sip Martini
end ring

on phoneCall from "John Lasseter"
  momentarily become disturbed by being in the
    presence of actual genius
  ask for Toy Story characters to make keynote at
    Macworld Paris
  explain that gambit of simply repeating last US
    speech is wearing thin so wouldn't it be better
    if a puppet did it anyway
  refuse to give Woody a share of the gross
  settle for net
  agree to separate trailer for Buzz
  change subject
  ask if (anyonehasnoticedthatgeorge
    lucashasreplacedallthehuman
    actorsinstarwarstwowithpixar
    renderedmodels)
  accept response "only because they're acting better"
  end if
end

on idleThought
  wonder
how much it would cost to refit this
    aeroplane with translucent plastic
  wonder
what the Woz is doing
  wonder
if Mac users are really ready to have
    BSD Unix thrust into their faces
  wonder
if the Eazel team have the old pirate flag
end

on nearSpeedOfSound
  count
with shares until smuglySatisfied = true
end

tell application "Gulfstream IV"
  land
end tell

16/02

The millennium bug

16/03

Five-year plan

16/04

Prime Minister's Question Time

16/05

She's a rainbow

16/06

AppleScript

16/07

Internet boom

16/08

RIP

16/09

Rules of the game

16/10

Thou shalt not worship...

16/11

Love Bug

16/12

Mac OS X Shenanigans

16/13

Digimon

16/14

Theory

16/15

Holidays

16/16

Apple Masters

16/17

Cube

16/18

John Doe

16/19

Maoist self-criticism

16/20

WAP

16/21

BSD

16/22

Share Prices

16/23

ADSL

16/24

Mac OS X on Intel

16/25
Christmas Presents