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The Stick
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Someplace Safe?
Posts: 17,328
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When my friend was in Cupertino, 1993 his 1 bedroom efficiency apartment was $2000 a month plus bills. He was looking for a house, but that was completely out of control, $1.4 M for 900sqft. We visited some other Apple employees and there were like 3 couples living in one 3 bedroom 900 sqft home. They were having a party because one of the guys living in the house had gotten hired by Next and was moving to Tahoe. He and his wife were moving out and another couple from Apple was moving in. They treated my friend like a big wig. He was not only paying for that expensive apartment he was also paying off his house in Austin. He bought the house in Austin where he did because he thought Apple was putting an office there. It has been over 10 years but Apple finally put in the offices LAST YEAR! And much closer to his house than they originally bought land. The new Apple offices are within 2 miles of his house.
Went to the Apple store with him about the time they had just came out with the iMac with 4K display. He was chatting up with a sales person and I was bored. There were lots of people standing around but not doing anything, just browsing I guess. Anyway, I went around to all the computers they had on display and used the photo booth program that takes pics using the iSight camera on the computer. Took close up zoomed pictures of parts of my face, my Nose, Eye, Ear, Mouth, etc. And made a different picture the desktop background on every computer except the one my friend and the salesperson was looking at. They I interrupted them and said "Oh, my gosh, look, something is wrong with all these computers!" They looked around and cracked up. Every computer in the joint was displaying a different zoomed in part of my face and it was out just far enough you could tell they were all of the same person. Interestingly not long after that the people that were just loitering around had gone over and started messing with the macs. There wasn't one left that somebody wasn't messing with after that. It was like my stunt let everyone know it was okay to mess the the demo models they had out.
When I was at the Apple store with my brother week before last for him to buy an iPad I looked at the Apple watches again. Before my cadillac surgery on my right eye I couldn't see well enough the read the screen on them. The good news is now I can (at least with my right eye). The problem is I can't think of anything to use the Apple watch for that is worth getting one.
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Richard aka "The Stick"
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