You are hereOkay, who bookmarked HoC on Best Buy's iPod Touch?
Okay, who bookmarked HoC on Best Buy's iPod Touch?
So I was at Best Buy in the west end last light, looking for a replacement bluetooth headset for my cel phone (which I lost at an official HoC function, BTW), when I decided to play around with the demo iPods.
The new iPod Touch looks particularly fetching, and I decided to try and see if I could download Total Recall from the iTunes store (hey, you never know- someone may have forgotten to log out). But on a device that tiny, even my pencil-thin fingers might as well be Christmas Hams, and I pressed Safari by mistake. "Oh well," I thought. Let's see if I can get a wireless signal. Not only did I get online instantly, but a quick scroll through the (mostly porn) bookmarks revealed something unexpected... the Herd of Cats website!
Now I know it wasn't Blackwalt or Jehreg (the user wasn't still logged in), so which one of you other monkeys did it? Seems like a brilliant bit of guerilla marketing, if only we had something to market.
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Translation: Hmmm... it might have been me
Shortly after the iPod Touch went on sale up here I came a cross one at the Best Buy on Merivale. Some guy shopping for an iPod with his wife was hogging the demo unit for five minutes. I stood by and watched as he went through virtually every feature EXCEPT the screen rotation feature.
I guess he must have noticed me looking over his shoulder and "kindly" started demoing the unit to me! I swear... this guy started to sound like a salesman! He showed off almost every feature while describing how easy it was to use! He blathered on about how cool it was compared to his older iPod and PDA. Then he holds it up in front of me and asked me if I had ever seen anything like it.
I bit my tongue and said nothing while my thoughts screamed "Hell no! At this rate I never would! Just give me the damn thing!!!"
He proceeded to demonstrate Safari by showing me his wife's web site. Eventually he said "I'll bet you're dying to try this out." No ya jerk! I'm just waiting to get the thing so I can shove it down your throat! Shaddup already and give me the thing!
I said "Yeah" and he finally handed me the iPod Touch. Got to had it to Apple. That is one slick puppy! I recall typing in the HoC url to see if I could access their WiFi and was amazed to see how quickly the page loaded. I double-tapped the screen to zoom in and out of the page and proceeded to navigate around the page with finger flicks! Way cool! I rotated the iPod in both directions and watched as the HoC site quickly re-orientated itself as shown in Coxxorz pics shown above. Cool!
Then I noticed the guy that had been "showing" me the iPod earlier. His eyes were wide open and his jaw was open. "I didn't know it could do that."
"That's nothing" I said, "you should see what else it can do."
His expression begged explanation but I turned and walked away.
Funny... I don't remember bookmarking the HoC site though.
...they now have TWO demo units.
There should be a time limit for tire kickers, enforced by a gradually increasing electric current applied through the security cable to the metallic back if the iPod.