Jaguar
Friday night, I ended up staying very late at work; the thing about having a laptop and a cell phone is that you can work on an online magazine anywhere there's a fast Net connection. So along about 10:45 p.m., I headed home, but I figured I'd stop by the Apple Store in Palo Alto, where they were having a big shindig in honor of the release of Mac OS X version 10.2, code-named Jaguar. The release was supposed to be at 10:20 p.m., and I figured I might buy it, or I might just play with the cool new iPods and enter the drawing for an iBook (because, like, you can never have too many laptops, right?).
So I got to the store around 11 p.m., and there were about 50 people standing outside on the sidewalk. Yes, there was a 50-person line to get into the Apple Store at 11:00 on a Friday night.
In retrospect, it makes sense: even if fire codes would allow it, you don't want 200 people jammed into the store. Too easy for software and other small items to walk off. Not to mention the reduction in customer-service quality if there are too many customers.
But there was no way I was gonna stand in line for an hour to get into the store. So I went home.
But today, Will Q. points out that I missed all the excitement: according to Crazy Apple Rumors, all the Apple Stores were going to release live Jaguars to roam through the stores and eat customers!
I've never seen that Crazy Apple Rumors site before, but I like it; the rest of that page is well worth reading as well. Made me laugh several times.
About two-thirds of the great URLs that I haven't had a chance to post in the past couple of weeks have come from Will. If he would start a blog, I could just point y'all to that and stop being a bottleneck for all the cool and entertaining stuff he points to.