DOWNERS, UPPERS

So I'm going to the big Ben Folds concert downtown tonight and today one of his songs (iTunes link) popped up on my iPod. It kinda caught me off guard considering all the stuff that has gone down this week:

FRED JONES PART 2
Fred sits alone at his desk in the dark
There's an awkward young shadow that waits in the hall
He's cleared all his things and he's put them in boxes
Things that remind him that life has been good
Twenty-five years
He's worked at the paper
The man's here to take him downstairs
And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
It's time
There was no party, there were no songs
'Cause today's just a day like the day that he started
No one is left here that knows his first name
And life barrels on like a runaway train
Where the passengers change
They don't change anything
You get off; someone else can get on
And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
It's time

Well ... that's kinda a downer. So let's cut to GMSV, which notes that a group of former Apple execs have started their own company:

Acquicor, a “blank check” company formed by former Apple CEO Gil Amelio, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and former Apple CTO Ellen Hancock, arrived at market Tuesday with no product, no customers, and no full-time employees (the company's sole employees are its founders and they all have other jobs), and today its shares are trading at $6.72. ... Which means Amelio, Hancock and Wozniak have already made themselves about $30 million dollars. Perhaps they'll use some of the money to buy naming rights to Gillette Stadium. Or maybe they could finish Mac OS 8.

Oh! Snap!


AND: McSweeney's brings the funny with The Slow and Painful Collapse of a Relationship Over The Course of a Weeklong Vacation as Expressed by the Names Each Partner Gave Their Digital Photos Taken During Said Vacation.