So upon returning from the Lone Star State I came up with a plan for all future travel. Take time to study maps, points of interest, and information in general, if you can. I did that, to a degree, but evidently I did not go to the right website. Last night, in an attempt to defend and further explain the deserted streets of downtown Texas I, once again, Googled Houston, Texas. Google Maps, and http://www.visithoustontexas.com. Bingo!It takes some digging around, but when you click on Special Offers and then click on the Houston Neighborhoods link...this is where all my questions (well not ALL my questions) were answered.
Evidently, if you're downtown during the week...which we were...the streets appear deserted! (Did I say that?) It is not a figment of my imagination..it's for real!! Everyone is UNDERGROUND! That's right, there's a 6.3 mile UNDERGROUND TUNNEL network connecting office buildings with all the sidewalk stuff you usually find in largewr cities such as New York and Boston. I wish I had known that! How bizarre, but how perfectly rational.
My friend compared Houston to Montreal ( the Galleria); little did we know how much like Montreal it really was.
On another note, there are a lot of Apple fans in Houston. HP's headquarters is also located in Houston. The Apple store did come through for us. Not so impressed with MacEdge in Portsmouth. I wonder what qualifications you need to become an authorized Apple reseller.?..obviously you do not need to be a rocket scientist...which, by the way, according to Iaonnis Maoulis, President of the Boston Museum of Science, there is no such thing as. If you design rockets, you are an aerospace engineer. Cool.
One last karmic thought... how random is it to call a 1-800 number to activate a credit card and to hear "You have reached Microsoft's Technical Blah, blah, blah " on the other end of the phone? Someone is definitely keeping track of things around here....
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Part 2: Maybe we can get a connector from the Apple guys
So where was I? On our way to Connecticut in the Tacoma with maybe 4 hours sleep. The keynote presentation is working great! The Dell notebook has a not so cool version on powerpoint just in case.... I am driving.
Not even 10 minutes into our jaunt I get something in my eye and we need to pull off the highway because I literally cannot open my eye and it's getting worse by the second. Bad karma....So after dowsing my eye with bottled water and wiping the streaky makeup off, we're off.
Great commute! Good karma...we get to the Convention Center in just about 2 and a half hours and pull into the parking garage. It is nearly 10:00. Almost 4 hours after registration. First level Full. Up to the second level. Full. How do you get to the third level? Is there a third level? Round and round we go. "Haven't we been down this section already?" Back down to the first level....to the Parking Garage Office. "You need to go all the way up to the roof." Great. Round and round we go.....Bad karma. Up to the roof, where twenty minutes after we arrived, we park and lug our shit to the elevator.
To the registration desk.....to our room....we have a mic and a sound system. Good karma!! Let's go hang out and relax in the Presenter's Lounge. How do we get there? No signs....up the escalator...down the escalator....back up the escalator...Let's ask this guy!! Back down the escalator..around the corner...there it is. Through the Boardroom Door. Not a lounge. A Boardroom, with a table and chairs and drinks. Is that chocolate on your pants? Bad karma....
Thank goodness for the Tide Stainstick!! Let's go online....no IP....more bad karma. This is why you need to bring a digital camera with you EVERYWHERE you go.
Okay, so let's go to the Exhibition Hall. Apple's here, maybe they can answer our Keynote questions!! Right. No answers there, sorry..Too big a room, not enough people. We were the only ones wandering aimlessly looking for cool stuff. Vendors huddled over their laptops ignoring us...bad karma.
Killing time....let's go get set up. Into the Big room with the Big screen ,the podium, the sound system, the projector with the cable for a pc...not a mac. Crap. Let's call Tech Support. Maybe the Apple guys have a cable! We are, after all, at a tech conference....
So my colleague leaves, and I get my not so cool powerpoint set up, and once I figure out which outlet to plug the speakers into I have Outback Popstar wafting through the room out into the hallway. 10 minutes to show time.....5 minutes to go.....and suddenly this really nice guy comes up to me and says he' s going to get me connected to the internet. "But I don't need the Internet for my presentation, " I say. But I think it must be like when you call for an ambulance and they have to take you to the hospital anyways, cause he insited on helping me set up my wireless connection. Then he whipped out his directions to get my colleague's macbook set up too!!
"Click Keynote" he says....nope, that's not it..." Click File" Nope that's not it....1:00 now, no Marcy. People are wandering in , grabbing handouts, grabbing seats, "Got it!" It' s the Apple. Great. No Marcy. Where the heck is she? What time is it? Almost 1:10...
"Okay, let's get started!" The presentation from hell begins....
Well...the Apple guys...nowhere, pretty useless...the CWD Guy enthusiastically offered a cabel from his car, only to return without it, sorry. No cool Keynote. Only Powerpoint. Not bad, somewhat entertaining. We definitely needed some retail therapy after that one. You know the Master Card commercial? Stopping at the mall to buy comfortable clothes and shoes to change into .....and changing in the truck in the parking lot...priceless.
Not even 10 minutes into our jaunt I get something in my eye and we need to pull off the highway because I literally cannot open my eye and it's getting worse by the second. Bad karma....So after dowsing my eye with bottled water and wiping the streaky makeup off, we're off.
Great commute! Good karma...we get to the Convention Center in just about 2 and a half hours and pull into the parking garage. It is nearly 10:00. Almost 4 hours after registration. First level Full. Up to the second level. Full. How do you get to the third level? Is there a third level? Round and round we go. "Haven't we been down this section already?" Back down to the first level....to the Parking Garage Office. "You need to go all the way up to the roof." Great. Round and round we go.....Bad karma. Up to the roof, where twenty minutes after we arrived, we park and lug our shit to the elevator.
To the registration desk.....to our room....we have a mic and a sound system. Good karma!! Let's go hang out and relax in the Presenter's Lounge. How do we get there? No signs....up the escalator...down the escalator....back up the escalator...Let's ask this guy!! Back down the escalator..around the corner...there it is. Through the Boardroom Door. Not a lounge. A Boardroom, with a table and chairs and drinks. Is that chocolate on your pants? Bad karma....
Thank goodness for the Tide Stainstick!! Let's go online....no IP....more bad karma. This is why you need to bring a digital camera with you EVERYWHERE you go.
Okay, so let's go to the Exhibition Hall. Apple's here, maybe they can answer our Keynote questions!! Right. No answers there, sorry..Too big a room, not enough people. We were the only ones wandering aimlessly looking for cool stuff. Vendors huddled over their laptops ignoring us...bad karma.
Killing time....let's go get set up. Into the Big room with the Big screen ,the podium, the sound system, the projector with the cable for a pc...not a mac. Crap. Let's call Tech Support. Maybe the Apple guys have a cable! We are, after all, at a tech conference....
So my colleague leaves, and I get my not so cool powerpoint set up, and once I figure out which outlet to plug the speakers into I have Outback Popstar wafting through the room out into the hallway. 10 minutes to show time.....5 minutes to go.....and suddenly this really nice guy comes up to me and says he' s going to get me connected to the internet. "But I don't need the Internet for my presentation, " I say. But I think it must be like when you call for an ambulance and they have to take you to the hospital anyways, cause he insited on helping me set up my wireless connection. Then he whipped out his directions to get my colleague's macbook set up too!!
"Click Keynote" he says....nope, that's not it..." Click File" Nope that's not it....1:00 now, no Marcy. People are wandering in , grabbing handouts, grabbing seats, "Got it!" It' s the Apple. Great. No Marcy. Where the heck is she? What time is it? Almost 1:10...
"Okay, let's get started!" The presentation from hell begins....
Well...the Apple guys...nowhere, pretty useless...the CWD Guy enthusiastically offered a cabel from his car, only to return without it, sorry. No cool Keynote. Only Powerpoint. Not bad, somewhat entertaining. We definitely needed some retail therapy after that one. You know the Master Card commercial? Stopping at the mall to buy comfortable clothes and shoes to change into .....and changing in the truck in the parking lot...priceless.
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