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Taking This Weekend Off (11/15/02)
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Ah, the life of a hardcore Apple retail partygoer: jetting off every weekend to exotic new locales like Cincinnati and Greater Detroit; getting plastered with fellow Beautiful People from Paris and Rome in line before the grand opening; throwing up all over the imported Australian tile floor in the store bathroom after finally getting past the bouncer. Truly, 'tis living the dream.
Unfortunately, you must be suffering withdrawal and a profound lack of purpose right now, since certain factors have left you grand-openingless this weekend. As we mentioned previously, the Apple Store Bay Street in Emeryville was originally supposed to open its doors tomorrow, but circumstances-- specifically, being hosted in a mall that is still kindasorta composed of exposed steel girders and vast expanses of mud-- forced Apple to delay its grand opening until next Saturday, the 23rd. And since Bay Street was the only store slated for an opening tomorrow, that means you're going to have to find something non-grand-opening-related to do this weekend. Mah Jongg, perhaps. Or maybe needlepoint.
On the plus side, though, next weekend ought to make up for the inconvenience. According to Apple's retail page, a second store has popped into the On Deck Circle: the Apple Store Cherry Creek in Denver, Colorado is now also scheduled to make with the funk on the 23rd, thus giving you crazed retail party animals a choice of where you'd care to wear your togas. Isn't it wonderful to have a choice of what city in which you'll wake up in a pool of your own vomit?
And the really serious partygoers might even try to hit both shindigs-- though if you're planning to undertake such an ambitious project, here's a word of warning: as a road trip it's an estimated 20 hours and 43 minutes by car, so even with the time difference, you probably wouldn't make it from one store to the other before closing time unless you drive like Steve Jobs. Better take the Gulfstream instead.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/15/02 episode: November 15, 2002: Apple posts the Yo-Yo Ma Switch ad-- and an interesting variant from Iceland. Meanwhile, NASA proves that 33 Xserves can flex some serious muscle when tied together properly, and while there are no Apple retail grand openings this weekend, the 23rd offers up a choice of where you might party down...
Other scenes from that episode: 3842: Yo-Yos & Icelandic Sagas (11/15/02) Okay, folks, our apparent cosmic penance for the sin of not watching "The West Wing" is over: faithful viewer Reddish Hugh tipped us off to the fact that the new Yo-Yo Ma Switch ad eventually appeared on Apple's web site yesterday afternoon, so we've finally taken a gander or six, seen the famous cellist in full-on Mac-peddling action, and now we're no longer haunted by the gnawing emptiness of knowing that there's a new Apple commercial out there that we hadn't yet seen... 3843: A Need For Speed Indeed (11/15/02) Are you one of those Mac users who just can't ever seem to get enough speed? Oh, sure, you've got a dual-1.25 GHz Power Mac howling away on your desk like a banshee all sugared up on mochas, and yet somehow it still just isn't enough raw power to fill that gaping void inside...
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