Macworld Expo - Pictures
January 26, 2008 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: Castle, Marketing, OSX, Picture of the Day, Puter Stuff, Travel, gnash-teeth
There were a ton of people at Macworld. Registration was a nightmare, I kept getting redirected to different registration stations by the staff even though I had registered online, but they sent the wrong ID badge. Finally I got it all straightened out and received a Macworld purse filled with MS Office M&M’s, a pen, notebook, lunch coupons for each day of the week, a magazine about the expo and a CDW 1GB flash drive. The number of Apple employees they had on hand to handle registration was impressive, it reminded me a lot of the INS.
Next was to tour all the booths and there were so many different vendors from the one man shops to the big names. The picture with the 3D glasses, yeah I have no idea. We were visiting a booth about backup software. Yet they were giving away 3D glasses, perhaps in an attempt to distract from the fact that with TimeMachine they really don’t have product anymore. This was perhaps one of the lamer marketing ideas, but I still had fun with it. Of course I can’t remember the name of the company so they get no plug here.
While wandering around, I noticed that comedian Sinbad had showed up. A crowd had gathered around him and he was being interviewed on camera. Not wanting to wait for the hub bub to die down I just ended up sneaking into the middle of the interview to get my picture taken.
Free WiFi was available, but it couldn’t realiably withstand the onslaught of thousands of geeks with their iPhones, iPodTouch, and notebooks all trying to connect to the Internet. While taking a break we headed outside of the Moscone Center, to a small corner where we happened upon a stronger signal to another business in the area. Here’s a lovely shot as we made camp to download some much needed iPhone upgrades and ate $6.00 cookies.
The place was pretty well packed the entire week, especially around the Macbook Air. We managed to fight our way through a crowd of disabled elderly people and actually play with one of the new notebooks. It’s a pretty slick looking peice of hardware, but a wee bit pricey.
While wandering about I noticed that someone from Apple Corp was making a fat joke about me. The enormous sign for everyone to see originally said “iPod Touch”, but Steve Jobs thought it would be cute to make fun of my extra pounds. At first I couldn’t believe it, but then we all had a good chuckle about it.
Nearby Intego’s “booth” was actually a giant green castle in my honor. All the attention was a bit embarrassing at first, but I just rolled with it. I wish they would have consulted me about the color though…
Since I was such a good sport about the whole “more to touch” thing, along with all the great work I’ve done over the years I was given an unexpected award. I was so excited I could barely contain it. I know during my acceptance speech I left out some very important people. I’m truly sorry, I was just so shocked by the whole thing and with the cameras flashing it was hard to focus. You all know who you are anyways.
Please note - This post *may* contain some satire, exageration, falsehoods, trophies, pictures, Apple products, me, Sinbad, misc people, green castles, my backpack and characters from the Roman alphabet. Yellow dye #6, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and berry juice.
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oh no, now I’m going to be retarded too?
Heeee.
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