Xbox Anticipation
The much-anticipated Xbox 360 ships tomorrow, and in honor of the event Microsoft has dyed the fountains green on the Redmond campus. This is the fountain outside my building (18) at 7:30 this morning; click on it for a closer look.
Later that evening (9:00PM) …
I just got back from a quick trip to Best Buy while VS2005 was installing on a virtual machine. These shared VPC folders are sure handy, but all the clever context-switching brings the CPU to its knees — you can go out to dinner, come back, and it’s still running.
Anyway, there were dozens of die-hard Xbox fans waiting outside Best Buy. Many of them were sporting gray knit caps and scarves with green Xbox logos on them. Channel 13 and another news truck were there, but it was a pretty calm scene. Most everyone in line was 20-something or 30-something, white, slightly unshaven, and male. (But by putting that blond woman up front in the picture, I made it look like a pretty diverse crowd, wouldn’t you say?)
The store closes at 10:00, the employees will spend two hours setting up the Xbox display, then the madness begins.
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on November 22, 2005 at 9:00 am Doug wrote:
Bill Gates was at this same Best Buy a few hours later, picking up his Xbox while the cameras clicked. I wish I had known he was going to do that, because I know some folks at Microsoft and maybe I could have saved him the trouble of waiting in line.
on November 23, 2005 at 4:06 pm Eitan wrote:
At first I thought the green stuff was a prank.
on November 23, 2005 at 5:30 pm Doug wrote:
Eitan took a picture too — check it out on his web site or his Flickr site.
on November 27, 2005 at 1:14 pm Charles wrote:
Pretty cool Dougie. Remember the Chicago River on St. Patricks day ?