It's the last day of the Expo, and we assume that things have wound to a close. Traditionally, when there's only an hour or so left before the show floor closes, savvy and/or attractive attendees can often score untold quantities of free stuff, just because the exhibitors really don't want to lug it all back home again. And at the very end of the day, it's not uncommon to see booth personnel swapping t-shirts with staff members from other booths, because if they have to drag a buttload of promotional stuff back with them, then it's at least going to be different promotional stuff, by cracky.

So we imagine that booth babes from, say, FileMaker Inc. and Aspyr are going to be heading home with at least a couple of free high-quality replacement windows and doors.

See, the thing we regret most about skipping this particular Expo isn't missing out on the feeling of camaraderie and oneness of being part of the year's biggest Mac love-in, nor is it even missing out on the free copy of Keynote we would have gotten had we been blessed enough to bask in the glow of Steve's presence firsthand. No, what we really wanted was to see just one specific booth with our own eyes: that of Kitchenworks, a Bay area outfit that sells windows, doors, and architectural siding. What does that have to do with the Mac, you ask? Absolutely nada, which is why the Kitchenworks booth was surely a placid island of contractory surrealism within a churning sea of high-tech.

No, they didn't turn up at the wrong trade show because they should've taken that left at Albuquerque; Wired reports that Kitchenworks knew exactly what it was doing. The company just decided that, as one of the biggest conferences in the Bay Area, Macworld Expo would boast a high ratio of local homeowners among its attendees (not to mention "well-informed, decisive people") who could maybe stand to buy some new storm windows.

Word has it that Kitchenworks was well-received and had a great time. So does this mean that we'll be seeing other off-topic booths at the Expo from now on? Because we're looking forward to learning all about the benefits of owning some really fine term life insurance.