Crazy Week in IL4
If you’ve kept an ear tuned to Apple news, you know that this week was a big one in Apple-land. On Tuesday, there was a shareholder meeting yesterday and there is a Town Hall meeting tomorrow (to unveil the iPhone SDK). It wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say that I’ve become an Apple fanboy, it’s just tough to not notice these things when you work in the same building that the events are going on in. (Not just the same campus, the Town Hall is right down the steps from my desk.)
What this means is a few things:
1) I met some Secret Service agents, and by “met” I mean walked by while they glared at me and everyone else around. One of the guys I work with came upstairs and was like “Who’s the rich dude with the bodyguards that think they’re Secret Service? I mean, they’ve got those crazy earpieces going on and everything.” Everyone else was like “Uhh…you mean the real Secret Service agents here because Al Gore is at the shareholder’s meeting?” Good stuff.
2) Engadget, Gizmodo and the rest are trying to peer through my windows to my desk. We had to shut our blinds for the night. It’s strange to think that they would pay a lot of money to find out what’s going on around our desks.
3) It’s a bit strange to be in the middle of it all. For me it’s just starting to be real how lucky I am. On the way to my desk in the morning, I walk past Steve Jobs in the lobby. I’m in PD, which is probably the 2nd coolest department in the company (behind ID). There are gonna be a whole lot of people clamoring to find out what Apple’s unveiling next, all a floor below my desk. AND I’M JUST A MONTH OUT OF COLLEGE.
I hope this doesn’t come off as bragging, because that’s not the idea. I just think it’s really cool that coming out of MIT gives people opportunities like this.
March 6th, 2008
You should leave your screen on at night, pointed at the window, with a fake rendering of some ridiculous new iPod on it.