It was an ok event - I'm home now, not waiting around till they close the store - it was totally packed.
And let me tell you the geek level was way higher than I ever expected.
First person in 'line' was a typical nerd, but he was sitting on the ground and working on 2 TiPB at once, please!
I had only a few things to say to him, discussing the Apple Stores wireless range, etc. But it was worthy of a picture, I'm sorry I didn't have a camera.
Then there was the elderly couple, in the mid to late sixties if not more. He had a portable seat while she paced up and down trying to get everyone in line. There was some semblance of a line, but the Apple people never organized it, so as the line wrapped around the road, in front of all the other stores for about 250' (yes there were quite a few people) there was a smaller, 20' line and grouping going the other way and hanging out around the door. I was part of that, getting there when there were only 20 people and no real line. So when the time gets close to openning the store, this woman is running around telling us all that we have to go get in line. Right.
There were people who had been there longer than she had. So she busied herself with something else and then an Apple employee came out to pass out entry forms for the free computers. Then he tried to tell us all to get in line.
I quickly told him that he should have organized a line when people started showing up and not after the groups formed. He immediately realized the crowd would not like where he was going, so he just said you can settle it all for yourselves.
The doors openned, people crushed in, and everyone got their mouse pad, and sticker. I wonder how much they're going for on ebay right now?
And I never did see blakspot - too many people - and jello was a no show, the loser. It would have been nice to get a call and let me know you weren't going to show
So, unless you really wanted to be a geek, see a bunch of very strange Mac People or get a free mouse pad (kind of ugly, too) you didn't miss much.
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