Apple Store Fans Camp Out for 24 Hours

Xeo writes "A bunch of dedicated Mac geeks have camped out 24 hours early at the 3rd street Apple store in Santa Monica, CA. One of them is keeping a running web site of his experience. Refresh often to check out his continuing adventures." I waited for a couple of hours to get into the Cambridge, MA Apple Store when it opened. That's one night I'll never get back.

Comments

A couple of words on the subject

[Anonymous Coward]

Little stories like this always make me feel better. I may be a loser, but I'm not that bad.

Re:Irony

[Anonymous Coward]

The word you are looking for is; zealot.

1.
a. One who is zealous, especially excessively so.
b. A fanatically committed person.
2.
Zealot A member of a Jewish movement of the first century A.D. that fought against Roman rule in Palestine as incompatible with strict monotheism.

As seen at dictionary.com

The saddest part about this guy is...

[sweede]

Not that he's wasted >34 hours of his life waiting for a store opening. Not the release of a G5, not to be the first 10 in a store and get a new Mac, Not for any other reason except that it is a NEW store.

Not that he's horded around different local shops to get power for his iBook and still maintain his airport linkup. even left his 'post' by driving around the block trying to charge his iBook batteries. Visiting other stores to get food, drink, and horde electricity from them.

Not that the group of them where there for 13 hours before anyone else showed up

Not that he has done this before http://emayhem.org/photostories/1027803100.shtml

But this little tid-bit,

I'll point you to the photostory from the last Apple Store opening I attended with friends, this time of the flagship Los Angeles store at The Grove last year. As an antecdotal side note, I split up with my ex-girlfriend not much longer after that... she bought a PC and it kind of went downhill from there.
http://emayhem.org/ramblings/10579271374.shtml

Seriously now, is your life that sad or delusioned that you will end a relationship with your woman because she bought a PC !!

Of course, what probably really happened is she got pissed that going to an apple store opening and living, eating, sleeping Apple Computers was more important than her, she said "c ya"

Re:The saddest part about this guy is...

[Listen Up]

It is not sad or being delusioned. It would be nice if more people had this kind of love, passion, and dedication to something they love and believe in. As it is, this nation has become an entire country or "don't care's" and "whatever's". If the qualities found in this person were found in everyone, subjects such as peace, hunger, hard work, equalism, marriage, and others would not concepts alien to anyone anymore.

He lost his girlfriend because of something he believes in. Do you believe in something so much that you would do anything to make it happen, even losing everything to achieve it? If more people in the world did, we as a human race would be in a better place in the world that we are now.

Re:The saddest part about this guy is...

[Listen Up]

Does it matter what the cause is? Make me a foe if you wish, you are already an idiot for saying something so stupid. A cause is important to the person who believes in the cause. That is not a judgement call on your part or anyone else's. My point was that people should all have the passion, belief, and desire to pursue a cause to its conclusion at all costs, because some people's causes can and would change humanity.

On the other hand...

[Slur]

...if thinking of others as foolish or pathetic makes you feel better about yourself then you may not be as well-off as you think.