Keynote Day

I was up before 4 am, and was in line before 5:30. By that time the line was all the way down the very long block and around the building. Much longer than last year at this time. By about 6:30 or so they let us in to continue standing in line in the building. We finally got into the room at 9:30, and even coming that early I was in the video overflow room.

Standing in line there was a lot of geek talk, much of this around who had owned the earliest version of the Mac, etc. A guy standing by me was carrying a copy of "The Fountainhead" so we got into a discussion of libertarian thought, pluses and minuses. He was a recent Stanford graduate who had spent some time working for the Guiliani Campaign. Then he went to LA to start to work as a screen writer, but admitted that this was unfortunately timed, so he is staying with his family these days.

Luckily, I brought my folding chair, so I had a little relief. I offered it to others, but strangely, had no takers. It was new, clean and everything. After standing in line for 4 hours, we were all getting pretty tired.

All of you who care already know the basics of the Keynote. I love the look of the MacBook Air, but I think I am most likely to get the Time Capsule. We don't sit at home watching TV.

After the Keynote, trying to exit was frightening. On the escalator down, I realized that the lobby was completely filled with masses of humanity, with no one moving. At the bottom I saw no choice but to take escalator back up and use another exit. (Check out the picture link below.)

I tried to get on the wifi at the expo, but it was completely overloaded. I walked to the closest Starbucks, but it also was full and the wifi was similarly overloaded. I went to a couple of blocks away and finally was able to get online.

I wandered back to the hotel room, and snoozed for a while. Then I walked back to Moscone West and looked around the exhibits. They had a Podcast Studio, and watched Leo Laporte talk about podcasting. By that time I hit the wall. Walked back to the room, and took my second nap.

Back to Macworld tomorrow.

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