Marta's Adventure Yes, I got there, too , about 6:30 , but while pondering where the end of the line was , because it was winding round about and also looking for some of the Mac people ,I inadvertently just got up to the Apple store on the outside of the restricting ropes ( did not know on which side of the Mall it was, but my guardian angel knowing I was not good at standing in line had guided me, ) I had walked right up to the store and went ri in with one of the rushes, perfect , met Ward at the entrance. I hadn't seen him in person for quite a while.I received my t-shirt------ but, for heaven's sake, why had they folded the box it came in the wrong way? The silver with logo was indeed intended to be on the outside! - I headed directly to the iPhone and gave a short performance of David Pogue's musical "I want an iPhone", also made a call right away on the phone!! It literally worked. It also was my pleasure to enthusiastically talk about the airport extreme (Ward having installed that for me a long time ago ) to some of those young people who wear their caps with bill turned around, but while giving "GREAT" advice on the airport to them, they were not able to explain the reason for their strange habit of hat wearing.
I played a bit with the new iMac and had fun with this extremely pretty small mouse, but my clumsy hands were no match for the exquisitely manufactured small button on the small mouse, yet I managed to get the dashboard out , got the city changed from San Francisco to Louisville in the temperature widget, to elicit from it the correct temperature, then I met a few comrades and , after having tried out sitting on the stools and bothering the guys at the GENIUS BAR --- the black clad ones were the geniuses, the green clad ones just the run of the mill people, as I was advised, I made propaganda for the Macgroup after finding out that some of the green clad ones were unaware of its existence --( a definite hole in their Apple knowledge - but I forgave them, since they had not been wearing green for very long)- I went back out, had a long talk with the t-mobile people , soothing their disappointment over their being quite ignored there last night and instilling into them also my hope that AT&T will not be the only carrier, then heading home -----and while opening my treasured t- shirt to show to my husband I discovered that the white box should have been silver, so I bothered my arthritic hands to turn it right side out and admired the silver sheen, matching the outside of my power book. That was it for last night --- but you Apple store people- be advised- I shall make use of the genius bar and you better be geniuses when I shell out my questions! Marta On Sep 7, 2007, at 08:09 AM, Ed Wiser wrote: > Rob I got there around 3pm had to run home and let the dog's out and > clean up. > I was the tenth in line. The high fives going made you feel like a > U of > L football player going into the store. Ward, was really happy.:) > > -----Original Message----- > From: macgroup-bounces at erdos.math.louisville.edu > [mailto:macgroup-bounces at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of RobK > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:34 AM > To: Macintosh topics > Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Oxmoor Lousiville opening > > Great pictures Ed, what time did you get there? > > The CJ reported last night that 200 people showed up. When I got there > at 6:15 the line had stretched down to the roped off area in front of > Macy's, doubled-back on itself then went down the mall and ended in > front of The Disney Store. > > I decided to treat myself to a Tumbleweed Burrito. When I came > down, the > line had stayed the same length. That is, people were getting in > line at > the same rate they were going into the store. > > What I could see of the store looks great. Very bright. > > What amazed me was the other merchants just standing there > watching. I'd > have had my people handing out samples of flyers or whatever. It'd > been > perfect for the pretzel place or the candy place. And $tarbucks could > have been passing out their coffee shots. > > Ahh retail...where have you gone. > > Ed Wiser wrote: > >> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiser/tags/applestorelouisville/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 25 at >> MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 25 at > MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
