White People in the News March 25
March 25, 2008 by clander
The risk for iPhone users: They know too much
By Michelle Quinn
The Los Angeles, Times, March 22, 2008
Stuff Mentioned:
- Sushi
- Apple Products
- Whole Foods
- Microbreweries (implied)
- Living by the Water
Also the greatest passage in history:
“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.”
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first!
you know your blog is a little too popular when you start getting Firsty McFirsts firsting all over the place.
agreed. that’s a lot more perezhilton.com than here.
McCain hates people who say “first.”
He also hates iPhones.
I think the phrase is, “McCainiac”…
He hates the phrase McCainiac too.
We like what ever Oprah tell us to
wow, i can’t believe it. i really am first.
Byte Me.
I hope Wil Shipley gets a raging case of the shits. I feel bad for the people who have to put up with his quizzes.
Yeah I was coming here to say that as well.
People like him are the reason why people who work in grocery stores hate their job so much.
I mean I have an iPhone, but I’m not an ASS about it.
What none of you guys understand is that Wil Shipley is one of the most prominent developers in the Apple / Mac community — and he’s not one of these modern day iPod era fan boys, but rather someone involved since 1989. It is only normal that he would use his iPhone 24 hours a day. He’s probably busy writing 30 apps for the iPhone right now. The guys who work at his local Whole Foods probably know this, and accept his behavior - it’s like a guy who designs cars coming up to you and asking you how you like your new car… That being said, I hope he is enjoying his entirely unexpected role in the White Man’s Spotlight, rather than feeling like shit.
There needs to be an entry for “making fun of other white people for being white.”
who cares if he is a prominent apple geek…still a douche in my book. afterall, he isn’t asking people about their iphones, he is badgering $5.00/hr fishmongerers.
he is almost as bad as those pretentious losers who scan pictures of their neices and nephews on the subway in the morning just so everyone knows they have an iphone. pathetic.
it’s like a guy who designs cars coming up to you and asking you how you like your new car…
Fail.
It’s like a guy who designs cars coming up to you and asking you how you like his new car.
Or, more accurately, it’s like a guy who writes software bugging the crap out of you about where a fish he might want to buy was caught.
Yeah but - it’s a fish! Get over it.
Its a fish! lets eat it!
oh okay but he’s still an asshole
Wil? Is that you? Or just some super, techno nerd from the area who has a creepy crush?
so sad and HILARIOUS.
actually, c lander, can you guys change the pictures to the right soon? that banana pudding is making me have dreams of food porn.
Funny!
How do you determine what seafood is most “environmentally correct to purchase?” Is it the fish that jumped into the boat?
Well, yes it is, but really white people aren’t out there actually fishing. We are listening to The Splendid Table, NPR radio cooking show, and know that the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch list is the greatest source for environmentally sound seafood choices. You can even call them if you aren’t white enough to have an iPhone: http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
white people absolutely ARE out there fishing, making $30000 for every two months they do it. Blacks and mexicans go fishing too but just like luging (sic?) and hockey, whitey really does it best.
Agreed.
My sister in law and her husband are white as hell…..
And they go to Alaska every summer, work hard, and come home with about 40,000 bucks……..
I swear.. this is one of the few websites that makes me laugh out loud and then people look at me like I’m crazy.. LOL
Even more points for the fact that he spells his name with only 1 “L”.
wil is a solid 10 on the unintentional comedy scale…could not make his gayness up if i tried.
I’m going to move to Seattle, get a job at Whole Foods, and when Will Shipley starts quizzing me on how the halibut were caught, I’m going to grab a whole one from the chiller and beat him to death with it.
My co-workers will pledge their lifetime fealty to me and my retirement shall be secure.
I live in Seattle about 6 blocks from there. I’ll do it for a fee.
This site lacks Texans. Whole foods is from TX.
And what the hell has happened to “Seattle”?
It used to be a man’s man type city, the anti-San Fran, a real place……but now there are these weasels crying that their city doesn’t get mentioned in the same jewified metrosexual homosexual breath as SF????
I bet the washington natives are not pleased with these wimpy newcomers.
My head just exploded. I’d love to *see* this guy.
Is there honestly anything whiter than using meth? Noone’s mentioned this yet. What about ‘grammer-related stress’?
Actually, white people who use meth are “the wrong kind of white people”.
It the spics and latrinos that bring that poison into our country.
it is like they wrote that just for this blog
I bet the reporter wrote that paragraph with the hope that it would get mentioned in this blog. You couldn’t cram any more whiteness in there if you tried.
I thought the exact same thing while I was reading that article.
How can I prank call this guy? It’s how I deal with asshats like this.
“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.”
No wonder giving white guys a beat-down isn’t a hate crime.
i spit out my water
lolol!!!
here’s the website for how to purchase eco-friendly seafood:
http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521
Ah man, I clicked that link hoping I would get RickRoll’d or it’d be goatse or something, but no, it really _is_ a website for purchasing “eco-friendly” seafood. That’s so white of you.
Wow, these news segments must be a real break now that you’re out of ideas.
SWPL couldn’t be running out of stuff already? There must be way more than 100 things that white people like. In any event, I like the new format and how it’s more interactive.
You forgot 6. Dinner parties (implied)
You forgot “grad school” under things mentioned.
You also left out San Fransico:
“Daniel Bernstein had one when he arranged to meet friends at a bowling alley in Daly City, near San Francisco.”
You gotta see this stuff:
http://www.jtcinc.blogspot.com
Busting on the iPhone now?
There’s a line and you just crossed it.
hilarious. it must take an awfully long time to shop at Whole Foods if you have to use an iPhone. I’d hate to be behind his cart.
Of course, the jackass has a blog:
http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/
And perhaps worse, a Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Shipley
Wil Shipley, huh? Boy, this guy sounds like a real tool. But, just take me a minute to verify that. Ipod, google, Wil Shipley, search. Dum dee dum dum…Oh yeah, what do know!!!!
I like to get my fish right from the stream. It makes me feel good.
I wish I had been drinking milk when I read that. Instead, I was eating baby carrots. Way grosser.
Of course, the jackass has a blog:
http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/
And perhaps worse, a Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Shipley
Preparing to eat ethically processed fish:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcburns/55285438/
He looks kind of like a Rockfish. Ha!
but I understand the eco responsibility thing where seafood is concerned, especially being a member of the Monterey Aquarium. I follow their safe fish guide…because…soon non but the very wealthy will get to eat fish if we don’t change our habits.
From his wikipedia entry:
“He currently resides in Seattle where he shares a home with Schmop, his cat.”
How do I go about renouncing my membership to western civilization? Is there a form I need to fill out or something?
He is a software develope for Apple, he lives with his cat and he writes pseudo sensitive blog posts. Can he be any whiter?
will shipley is an idiot.
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
I’m at Panera using the free wireless, and when I laughed out loud, the people next to me just smiled.
Funny stuff!
“I’m at Panera….”
See: #63
“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.”
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! I just can’t believe people are actually like this.
If that guy needs some shit to do, I have a couple of projects he can help me with.
Who is a bigger douchebag: Wil Shipley, or the loser who wrote, “first!”
wil shipley!
I used to be “white” and have lived in five different “white” cities. Now I’m just white and very happy about it. In my city “white” people go to Whole Foods and fiddle with their iPhones while white people go to Krogers (or Publix) and fiddle with their children and groceries. I’m thinking of writing a book on how to stop being “white” and just be white.
This blog is becoming “Stuff Rich, White Liberals Like To Do.”
becoming?
I say we need a TV parody of “The Right Type of White People,” or at least a movie. I guess we already have that with Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it’s mockery of “The Right Type of White People is pretty subtle. We need a whole show devoted to it, especially since these people are the only ones snooty enough to think they’re above being parodied and mocked.
“You can’t make fun of me! I shop at Whole Foods and want a black president! We’re the good kind of white people!”
Curb Your Enthusiasm is jewish, not White. It’s anti-White. What planet do you live on??
You are clearly the “wrong kind of White person”, if white at all.
So sorry, Wil. Eat right. Die anyway. But iPhones are way cool (yes, this whitey likes Apple). And LOVES your site.
When one reads about people like this Wil Shipley numbnutz (”when one” is pretty white BTW), you gotta realize that the world needs more interpersonal physical violence, not less.
Wil Shipley is the primo douchebag for all time. Has a self-promoting touchy-feely blog and wiki page. Takes his freaking iGadget to the grocery store. Surfs the internet and quizzes the hippie clerks about how his damned sockeye salmon was caught. (”HOW THE F*** DO YOU THINK, DOUCHEBAG?! IT JUMPED IN THE FREAKING BOAT!”). This is douchebaggery to the transcendental degree. Googleplex douchhebaggery.
And on a more serious note, it confirms my opinion that the whole eco/organic food movement is simply part of white liberals’ ceaseless attempts to distinguish themselves from the non-elite classes.
Who is a bigger douchebag: Wil Shipley, or the loser who wrote, “first!”
Who is the biggest douchebag?: Wil Shipley, the loser who wrote, “first!”, or the chick who blogged, “We don’t know why, but peach iced-tea and lemon sugar crepes somehow solve all our probelms while simultaneously restoring the meaning in our lives.”?
Just sayin’.
wil shipley!!!
What a fag (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
I’m a fag and we don’t want him in our “group”.