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"We Have a Pass" (7/9/98)
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Apparently, MacWorld Expo security staff are immune to the mind-bending effects of Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field®. Either that, or the results got somehow twisted out of Steve's favor. However you look at it, it's definitely pretty funny that the Grand Poobah of Apple reportedly couldn't get onto the show floor after delivering his keynote because he didn't have a conference badge. The whole sordid story is over at MacInTouch.
Now, over the course of our long and varied career, we've had our own past run-ins with security guards of various types and tenacities, and we can vouch for the fact that Expo guards are among the most single-minded and unyielding. After all, their only directive is, "no one gets in without a pass." Not difficult orders to follow. What we perhaps find most telling about the whole incident is that it hadn't occurred to anyone that Steve might actually need a badge to get in. Heck, he could have had our extra one; we found out just before our conference session that Expo management screwed up and had two passes waiting at the speaker's office. If we had but known...
Poor Steve... catching a red-eye flight from the West Coast to the East is unpleasant enough-- we know, we've done it-- without being hassled by rent-a-cops just after having delivered a speech that will be picked apart and scrutinized by millions of people. But hey, it all comes with the territory. If Steve's RDF® hadn't been at low ebb following the overnight flight and the keynote address, he very likely could have pulled off an Obi-Wan and said "You don't need to see my I.D.," but them's the breaks. At least Gregory Hines got to laugh his ass off over the whole thing. ;-)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/9/98 episode: July 9, 1998: Two big Mac-type shows say buh-bye Big Apple, hullo Beantown. Meanwhile, Captain Steve in a weakened state relies on his entourage to smuggle him into the show, and rumors grow regarding Apple's high end line...
Other scenes from that episode: 842: Back to Boston (7/9/98) New York, New York: the town so nice they named it twice. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. So that's why, as we sit in this tiny NYC $169/night hotel room contemplating the injustice of being charged a dollar for toll-free 800 calls, your friendly AtAT staff is both puzzled and overjoyed to hear that, after only one year in the Big Apple, the summer MacWorld Expo is returning to Boston... 844: High-End Rumors (7/9/98) Okay, if you're anything like us (and you probably are, since you tune in to AtAT) you're wondering just what the heck is up with Apple's plans for the high end of its Power Mac line. There's still nothing officially announced to replace the models that were quietly discontinued a few days ago, but a couple of the rumors sites have a little new info gleaned from various and sundry tawdry sources...
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