7 Apr
2000
7 Apr
'00
5:54 p.m.
Just for that I wish I could have been there.
I canned my order at CC (i hate to give people money and not have anything
in return)
I guess I'll just pick one up "cheap" when they have to liquidate the stock
:)
Francois
----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Christopher Finney <af-list(a)wfi-inc.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:26 PM
Subject: OT: Netpliance at InternetWorld
Hi,
I'm just back from InternetWorld, where I had a funny iOpener
experience...
They had a unit embedded in the front face of a refrigerator
(touch-screen) at their display booth. At the end of the spokesmodel's
little presentation (and I emphasize the word model - what all those
beautiful women have to do with computers is beyond me), I couldn't resist
tossing out, "Yeah, that's cool, but can you hack it to run Linux?" I must
have been the 10,000th person to ask that day because she just snapped and
started yelling at me, "will you people leave us alone about this! Jesus!"
But it was too late...some other guy yelled, "yeah, but hurry and buy one
before they pour epoxy in the back of it..."
Cheers,
Aaron