Meeting Steve Jobs
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Guess who I met today? Steve Jobs. No kidding. I didn't have any business cards on me, and he was rushing out of the store at the time - but I did meet him and shake his hand at the Palo Alto Apple store. Ask Gretchen if you don't believe me. I shall meet him again - come hell or high water. And next time, he'll know who I am. Now, to further prove that I'm not abandoning the wonderful world of Windows, here's a video documentary I created with my Canon PowerShot G2 and XP's crappy-ass Movie Maker. Here I am, iBuying an iMac.
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Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 11:18pm
Gretchen looks really hot driving in the movie, GO GRETCHEN!
Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 11:21pm
fuckin great…i am glad I am not the only puzzled by the placement of the power button!
:)
/andyh
Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 11:21pm
w00t go chris hope u got it turned on ok lol
Anonymous
March 30th, 2002
at 11:40pm
nice … one of the best amateur iMac-unpacking-pr0n clips i've seen.
for more on this weird phenomena, check http://www.wired.com/news/prin.....84,00.html …
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 12:02am
Congrats on the iMac, just blowout OSX and load Yellow Dog and your good to go :) One question though, does that Movie Maker software come with the cheap porn music or is that from the personal collections (j/k) ;)
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 7:10am
I always h@ted mac SOO much. But im begining to second guess myself.
…I WANT ONE!!! CHRIS!! BUY MEEE ONE!! lol
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 7:36am
Isn't it weird that the whole thing came in 1 box?
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 7:40am
Cool little video, can't wait to see the profesional verion done in Imovie;)
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 10:29am
All it does for me is say “Network Connection Has Failed.” I will try again later, it was working, and I got to see up to the point where Chris goes in and picks up the box..then it said that..Darn..oh well…:)
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 12:23pm
I thought you didn't liked I Mac he finally (Steve) won you over -)
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 1:07pm
wassupchris, whenever i try to view the clip in mediaplayer it says “unable to establish connection with the server”is there something wrong with my media player or is the sever down.
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 1:46pm
haha, pr0n
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 2:55pm
i'm starting to want an i book cause pc laptops are exxpensive and i books and power books look beter and are just plane old ebtter
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 4:28pm
For those of you complaining about not being able to view the video, just download it first. You can erase it when you are done. I had no problems with it except for this weird sound coming out of my speakers. Thought the iMac was going to hump the PC next to it for a second there…
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 5:14pm
Ah, the Easter Egg has arrived for Easter. Right on time.
So, Gretchen swears you met Jobs? I'm watching the Ten Commandments on TV. The part where Ann Baxter says to half-nekked Heston, “Moses, I love you, Moses.” She doesn't even know his last name. She's lying. Chics will say anything to TV stars and Pharohs.
Now Sprocket would tell us the truth.
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 5:59pm
Way to go Chris! Now make sure you let Leo know too because he sure does love his. I give ya credit Chris, you are venturing out to new horizons! Congrats
Anonymous
March 31st, 2002
at 5:59pm
Way to go Chris! Now make sure you let Leo know too because he sure does love his. I give ya credit Chris, you are venturing out to new horizons! Congrats
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 3:49am
Imagine some appropriate spooky music in background
Father Carras walks into the room and there in the middle is Chris, his head rotated 180 degress unpacking his Apple.
“Good Heavens - it's Lucifer in a carton tempting mankind again with an APPLE as he did in the garden of Eden”
Chris utters the words of Job (sounds kinda churchy like)
“And the IMac will come forth and multiply and the demons of IBM will shatter as did Job empire's….. And the on/off button shall jam and ye shall forever reboot into the OS/X from HELL”
Been there tried that threw it out the door. Good for some things but too many buts to be excused
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 7:39am
Honest to God, it was Steve Jobs. I can say this because I spotted him first, and said to Chris, “Hey isn't that Steve Jobs?” When Chris introduced himself to the guy, he confirmed it.
Sprocket might tell the truth, but since he never is interested in TV or books (not even Animal Planet, sheesh!) he wouldn't know what the heck Jobs would look like in the first place…
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 8:24am
Cool Chris & Gretchen! Too bad the camera wasn't rolling when you met Steve Jobs! It would have been an insteresting addition to the video clip. ;-)
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 8:34am
Technically, dogs don't see the pictures on tv. They just see a bunch of dots. The signal is encoded for human brains to understand, not animals.
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 10:40am
You have Apple stores over there? Darn. Though I did have chance to play with an iMac today - they are seriously cool. Just a pity X-Setup won't work on it…
The Steve Jobs thing is cool too - Darn I really do need to move to California!
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 12:07pm
I see that you are not looking to have kids (with the way that you opened the box using the box cutter towards you)! :)
Then again, you are a professional :)
Do not try this at home.
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 2:27pm
Way cool. The power button is not an issue though. No crashes = no reboot = power button don't matter ;)
Man, I wish I would meet Steve while shopping sometime. Too bad I'm in Germany most of the time…
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 2:47pm
It would have been TOTALLY perfect to get him on camera… but well, ya know, we didn't really want to impose on his privacy by whipping out the camera and saying “Hey Steve, we were waitin' fer youse, hyuk, hyuk! Can you sells us one of them Mac thing-a-ma-jigs?”
He didn't appear to want to stick around and make small talk, esp. after Chris recognized him, so what the hey. :) We didn't want to look too much like crazed fans…
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 3:17pm
*note to self* When at Gnomedex do not act like crazed fan and whip out video camera while imposing on Chris and Gretchen's privacy and muttering “Hyuk, hyuk! Can you sells us one of them Gnomedex tees if you please?” ;-)
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 3:55pm
I dunno Robyn I think it might be pretty darn hard not to act all groupiesh I will help you if you help me :)
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 5:37pm
Gretchen and Chris, I admire your restraint. I'd a gushed right up to Jobs and and shown him a picture of my Newton Aquarium Ornament. “I got your Aqua look, right here, Stevie.”
My favorite part of your video, tho, was the chic behind the counter typing on the cash register. Chris is just jabbering away, and she's not even listening to him. The big red sign is in front of him, and she's like; “talk to the sign, valley-boy”. It was great.
You guys need one of those Pontiac Vibes with the AC outlet so you can make smoothies on the way to buy your next Ex-Mac. With OS MXVII. .
Anonymous
April 3rd, 2002
at 9:33am
http://chris.pirillo.com/archi.....tml#000052
i take it you changed your mind?
Anonymous
April 3rd, 2002
at 9:18pm
For those of you who cannot view the video, you must have the DivX codec. I had the same error message, until I downloaded it. It is so Chris can make a nice and small file.
http://www.divx.com/divx