Jaguar Pizza and Other Nerdy Things

Snaggy writes "Nitrozac and I wanted to celebrate the release of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar in geeky style, so we designed the ultimate Jaguar pizza! Here's what we did, and how you can make one too... The Jaguar Genius Pizza! enJoy!" If you are the kind of person who thinks this is a good idea, you'll probably want to go to "100 Minutes of Jaguar" tonight at 10:20 p.m., at an Apple Store near you. I'm going.

Comments

Poor technique

[secret_squirrel_99]

Perhaps these guys should be taking cooking lessons instead of worrying about 100 minutes of jaguar. With knife skills like those shown in the photos he'll be needing to type without fingertips before too long

That's gross

[Anonymous Coward]

That's gross, but seriously... How much does the upgrade cost?

Re:That's gross

[Duck_Taffy]

Well that depends. If you bought 10.1 (either by itself or on a new computer) within the past month or two, you can get an upgrade either for free or for $20 - I'm not quite sure - either way, they mail you a CD, you can't download it.

If you bought 10.1 more than a couple of months ago (or didn't actually buy it), you have to buy the full package. I've seen it various prices, but if you qualify for an educational discount, that's the best way to go, as the full package only costs $69.

Re:That's gross

[King Babar]

If you bought 10.1 (either by itself or on a new computer) within the past month or two, you can get an upgrade either for free or for $20 - I'm not quite sure - either way, they mail you a CD, you can't download it.

Updates are $20 for computers bought between July 17 and August 24; getting the upgrade is a bit tricky since the upgrade form is accessible only via a tab that is almost unreadable thanks to the !@#$@#$ Jaguar skin "theme" on the OS X pages at www.apple.com.

For computers bought on or after August 24, things could get sticky. At our local (college) computer store, you might not get Jaguar with hardware sold after August 24, and the store manager types are really pissed that the customer in this case has to do ther upgrade drill mentioned above, rather than having something like the 10.1 upgrade "sleeve" to hand out with the new hardware. If Apple has any brains, they will start doing something like that in all sales locations, otherwise they could get a ton of hardware ordered in early August returned.

On a vaguely related note, my dual 1GHz PowerMac, which was ordered on 8/13 and quoted to ship in 3-5 business days took 8 business days to get to shipping (Jaguar will be pre-loaded). This may or may not be an early indication that deliveries could be slow on this hardware, although the online Apple Store never updated the availability of this hardware on the web site.

Re:That's gross

[Megane]

On a vaguely related note, my dual 1GHz PowerMac, which was ordered on 8/13 and quoted to ship in 3-5 business days took 8 business days to get to shipping (Jaguar will be pre-loaded).

Will be? Are you still waiting for yours? I haunted the local CompuUSA for a mere three days until they got their second shipment in (one day late). The 1gig I got had Jaguar loaded.

I wonder if the "update" is a regular boxed version. Then I could sell it on ebay. Heh. Except I don't want to bother. And it would probably be the "coupon version" anyhow.

Not like it's anything special for me; I've been running it for almost two weeks on my Powerbook. (I downloaded 6C115 from the developer site.) I've only restarted three times, and the third was to activate the Wacom drivers I installed so I could try Ink.

Re:That's gross

[King Babar]

On a vaguely related note, my dual 1GHz PowerMac, which was ordered on 8/13 and quoted to ship in 3-5 business days took 8 business days to get to shipping (Jaguar will be pre-loaded).

Will be? Are you still waiting for yours? I haunted the local CompuUSA for a mere three days until they got their second shipment in (one day late). The 1gig I got had Jaguar loaded.

A careful reading of my post does suggest that I am still waiting, since the box only just got *to* shipping (i.e., FedEx ground). I've now got a compulsive tick where I check its shipping status within Fedex every hour or so. It departed the FedEx sort facility in Sacramento on 08/24/2002 at 04:47. Everybody claims it will have Jaguar pre-loaded.

I wonder if the "update" is a regular boxed version. Then I could sell it on ebay. Heh. Except I don't want to bother. And it would probably be the "coupon version" anyhow.

I'm not really sure how they're doing this. I have to send in for the update for some other recently arriving boxes. The local store here doesn't seem to think that they will end up playing any role in this. (Which is part of the thing that pisses them off, since they *know* that some people will just bypass them for the on-line Apple Store for their current stock that does not ship with Jaguar today. It's basically a college bookstore place, and they had to pre-order their dozens of iBooks and and PowerBooks to have stock on hand for the big Fall rush, and it's looking a lot like dead inventory at the moment due to the OS update fiasco.)

Orange Crush Rocks

[miguel_at_menino.com]

Orange Crush Rocks. 'Nuff Said.

Re:Orange Crush Rocks

[Anonymous Coward]

Agreed.

But you're comparing Apples and Oranges here.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOL OMFG ROFLMAO

Cheddar cheese on pizza?!

[MalleusEBHC]

What were they thinking? That's an even bigger faux pas than showing up tonight at an Apple store with a Thinkpad asking if Jaguar has been ported to x86 yet.

Re:Cheddar cheese on pizza?!

[BeeShoo]

They're Canadian. Give them a break, eh? ;-)

Re:Cheddar cheese on pizza?!

[DLWormwood]

I thought Domino's Pizza added a small amount of Cheddar to their Mozzarella for their delieved pizza. Anyone?

Re: Cheddar cheese on pizza?!

[elemental23]

I think Round Table (SoCal) might do this too. Personally, I like cheddar cheese on pizza, eithe mixed with mozerella or sometimes just by itself. Don't knock it 'til you try it!

Re:Cheddar cheese on pizza?!

[Snaggy]

Chedder is better.(TM)

no seriously, give it a try, ... Think Different. And be sure to use real Canadian aged chedder, it's a lot different than the um, American cheese I've had.

Re:Cheddar cheese on pizza?!

[Valdrax]

You apparently don't realize that a pizza with anything other than sparsely laid out slices of mozzarella (Florentine style) is an American invention.

Huh?

[Hard_Code]

Am I missing something? Is this post really just about somebody making a pizza? If so, I can't wait to upload exciting pictures of me picking lint out of my belly button! How about toasting a bagel! Boy I'm getting excited!

Re:Huh?

[Snaggy]

Yes, but is it an OS X bagel?

jeese! ;)

*sniff*

[Duck_Taffy]

Oh how I wish I could be at a Jaguar release party tonight. Unfortunately, the nearest Apple Store is about 400 miles away, and I have to be at training here tomorrow morning to work at the Apple Store they're opening here. So no Jaguar party for me. By the way, that's a gross pizza. You couldn't pay me to eat it :)

Re:*sniff*

[class_A]

Tell me about it, the nearest one must be about 5,000 miles from me :-)

To make it worse, a good friend of mine is in NYC with his iBook and DV cam. He'll probably be popping along to the SoHo store sometime this weekend to buy an iPod...

So unfair!

Re:*sniff*

[superdan2k]

You didn't miss much, dude. I just got back from the Mall of America fiesta. I got there an hour early, and the line already stretched a quarter of the way around the mall...by 10pm, it stretched fully to the opposite enterance (the Apple store is right by the south enterance, first floor).

They didn't throw the doors up until 10:20pm, despite the size of the line. I didn't get in the door until 10:50. I paused long enough to get my entries into the "win an iMac" and "win an eMac" contests, then got in line. I got out of there at 11:57pm.

I literally feel like I just ran a marathon. (I've run them before, so I can compare.) There was nothing particularly exciting about the festivities other than the bizarre questions about the line. (Some old woman asked if it was "the line to get out of the mall." Yeah, lady, it's capitalism at gunpoint...if they find out you spent less than $100, they send you back in to the mall until you have.)

Anyway, it was nothing more than kibbitzing with a bunch of other Mac users, your feet getting tired, and trying to avoid a claustrophobia attack.

But I was there. And I got Jaguar. So it wasn't all bad. :-)

Oh yeah, and it was 10% off everything in the store if you bought Jaguar.

Re:*sniff*

[Alex Thorpe]

Sounds like the opposite of my experience tonight. With no Apple Store yet, the "Mac Store", an Apple reseller for over 10 years, put on a party of their own. There was about 50-60 people(plenty in a small building like this), with lots of door prizes(t-shirts, mouse pads and such), and all the soda, popcorn, and pizza rolls you could eat for free. On the other hand, as a small reseller, they were only sent 20 copies of Jaguar. They'll call me when they get their next shipment, about Tuesday or so.

Um..That's Against IEEE-6334...

[Spencerian]

While pizza is an acceptable foodstuff for Geeks as defined by paragraph 7.2a of the "Foods to Chow Down On During Intense Coding" clause of the Unified Geek Code, I think the spirit of this pizza violates paragraph 7.3, "Acceptable Foods that Don't F*ck Up My Mouse and Keyboard," as well as paragraph 7.7, "Portable Foods", although I'm sure there's a few of us out there that can one-hand a deluxe slice.

Besides, where's the Jaguar Beer? Can't have pizza without beer! That's against regulation 1.2, "Advanced Sys Admin Slack Off Procedures."

Re:Um..That's Against IEEE-6334...

[MonkeyBoy]

Pah! One-handing a deluxe slice is for newbies. One-handing a deluxe deep-dish slice takes skill.

Along the path to mastery lies many dead keyboards unless you get some protection.

Root beer

[MattCohn.com]

[mind races trying to think of lame joke about them serving 'root' beer with the pizza...]

Re:Root beer

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, we all know that you're supposed to use sudo rather than logging in as root... So then sudo beer is real beer, not pseudo beer? I came close.

Re:Root beer

[Anonymous Coward]

Your spelling has improved. I think all your jokes are lame.

Ahr doo bya ess ?

Yes, the loyal Maniacs get stabbed in the back.

[Asterax]

What about the loyal Mac fans who don't have a Apple store up here in Maine? ;(

Nay, Nay!

[jht]

We had a pizza chain here in Boston back in the '80s (and before, I presume) that did "English pizza". It was a small, thin-crust pizza with a very tangy sauce and a mild white cheddar cheese on top.

It was very yummy. They had a couple of Boston locations, and quite a few others.

However, I find the idea of olives on my pizza to be repugnant.

Re:Nay, Nay!

[Duck_Taffy]

Me, too, as well as Mushrooms. There is a restaurant here in St. Louis that serves a Barbecued Chicken pizza, which is basically barbecued chicken, barbecue sauce, and cheddar cheese on french bread. It's quite tasty, although not necessarily what I'd recommend to someone craving pizza. It's also ridiculously filling. I'm usually full after eating half, and eating the other half is just punishment :)

Re:Nay, Nay!

[Duck_Taffy]

Obviously you haven't had enough alcohol, otherwise you wouldn't be refusing head from someone :P

Re:Nay, Nay!

[Anonymous Coward]

man bewbies. eeeewww!

Cheddar Cheese on Pizza?

[dmr]

What a terrible idea! Cheddar on pizza? I understand you want a jaguar-orange, but can't you just use more orange peppers?

Bleah. Bad food that looks pretty is sooo Windows XP.

How I wish I had the time to install 10.2 this weekend, but alas, I need to paint the new apartment.

Re:Cheddar Cheese on Pizza?

[adb]

I've always found cheddar Pizza to be delicious. Maybe it's because I tend to put lots of other stuff on the pizza and use the cheese more as a garnish than as the bulk of the food. Then again, maybe I'm just a pervert: I like blue cheese on pizza too. Hell, just put me down for "cheese on pizza" as a general rule.

Re:Cheddar Cheese on Pizza?

[stux]

Mmmmm

camembert, cranberry and chicken is great too ;)

Re:Cheddar Cheese on Pizza?

[Anonymous Coward]

How I wish I had the time to install 10.2 this weekend, but alas, I need to paint the new apartment.

Uhh, you do know the computer does all the work, right? You can pretty much put in the CD, click a few buttons, and let it churn away while you paint. This is not like a Windows install where you have to keep sitting there like a moron to enter 50 activation codes and click 'OK' every few minutes.

Boy that was disappointing

[Anonymous Coward]

I at least expected the design on the pizza to be in the shape of a big "X"... you know, like the "X" on the OSX 10.2 case?

But, you did get a whole bunch of slashdot folks to look at your ad impressions and see the junky shit in your store, so you win anyway.

Jaguar Party - 10% off at Retail Stores

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't know about pizza, but I read that Apple is giving 10% off everything in store with purchase of Jaguar tonight. It is in a CNET article. Calling to confirm...

Somebody make a pizza

[Treeluvinhippy]

and that counts as Stuff that matters?

Re:Somebody make a pizza

[Duck_Taffy]

I believe that would fall under the "News for Nerds" category. :)

Re:Somebody make a pizza

[Snaggy]

News for nerds, Food for the Mac Soul

To paraphrase Comic Book Guy...

[Aiku1337]

Worst... story... ever.

Re:Yeah, but where is my 2-button mouse on cheap H

[Anonymous Coward]

hehe... you CAN'T be serious...

Re:Boy that was disappointing, not

[Snaggy]

hi AC, we did the Big X last time.... with our OS X Anniversary pizza.

There's no apple stores in Utah!

[Dark Paladin]

Look, I know Utah isn't exactly the center of culture. I mean, we've got weird liquer laws. We've got jackasses in the southern end that like to marry their 14 year old cousins - all 5 of them.

But why punish us and not give us an Apple store, Apple? It might make Novell consider making apps for someone other than, well, they're #1 competitor.

Jaguar Pizza...

[finity]

I must say, that is so geeky it rocks!

Nothing Wrong with Chedder on pizza

[lemkebeth]

For those who don't know:

There is nothing wrong with Cheddar on a pizza as long as the Chedder is mixed with Mozerella or a similar cheese as Chedder won't melt properly elsewise on the pizza.

I normally put some chidder on my pizza along with the mozzerlla when I make it.

10.2

[Slaveway]

I give it 10 thumbs up!!!!!!

Ruggles! Re:Nay, Nay!

[kris_lang]

I remember this place:

It was Ruggles in Harvard Square.
They had cheddar cheese on top of a whole wheat crust and some other bizarre toppings too.

I personally preferred Mr. & Mrs. ___ for burgers,
, Wei Ta for chinese, and Iruna for Spanish, esp. their garlic soup and their white sangria. And Toscanini's for ice cream... mmm... ginger snap molasses ice cream... mmm...

And the Orson Welles theater. And the Harvard Square cinema before it became a Star cinema, etc.

Ummm....

[Anonymous Coward]

Utah is small. REALLY small. I know, I lived there for years. The market isn't that important right now. Oh, and crazies live all over the state. Boy, I'm glad I'm gone from that hell hole.