January 14, 2008

Mystery! Intrigue!

Tomorrow Apple holds it's annual Macworld Conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will take the stage to present another of his legendary Keynote Presentations.

This time last year Apple announced the iPhone. At the time the release date was still a few months away, but finally we got to see what it looked like. After years fo rumors and fake mock-ups, the actual phone was better than all of them. It certainly blew us away, we fell in love with the phone the moment we saw it. Even after the $200 price drop, and having to embrace the slimey grossness of AT&T, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the phone is totally worth it. I still consider it my new best friend.

But the best part about Macworld is the mystery.

Apple is notorious for keeping their new products and upgrades a complete secret before they are announced on stage. Who knows what mysteries lie in wait behind the back of that turtleneck-ed man. It's like second Christmas, except all the presents are unwrapped and sitting behind expensive unbreakable glass.

Every year in the few weeks and days before Macworld the Apple nerds (like me) all speculate on what new discoveries we'll encounter at Macworld. This year is no different.

Speaking of mysteries. We're such big fans of Lost that we automatically considered ourselves fans of the show's creator J.J. Abrams. In anticipation of his new moster movie project, Cloverfield, we planned on being excited. But then we thought about some of his past projects that we've actually not been that impressed with. Like Alias. Which really seems to be more of his baby that Lost is. We've only ever seen one episode of Alias all the way through, and maybe we're missing something, but we didn't go crazy for it. Essentially we talked ourselves out of being Abrams fans.

Then we saw J.J Abrams' presentation for TED...

Now we're huge fans again!

Posted by clunkyrobot at 8:21 AM | clunky.apple.nerd pop culture | Comments (3)
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I can't wait for tomorrow . . . I am trying to get as much done today - as I can - so that I won't feel bad for being so distracted when I am following along with the keynote.

Oh - and thanks for putting up the J.J.Abrams thing - I had heard about it - and wanted to see it. Very excited for Lost and Cloverfield.

Hooray!

Posted by: N.Bumpercar at January 14, 2008 2:16 PM

I'm not into "Lost" at all, but I've been jazzed about "Cloverfield" ever since the first trailer featured a bunch of people saying how awesome their pal Rob is to the camera before New York gets roasted.

Beyond my normal high-level fandom of disaster flicks that turn my beloved New York City into chunky salsa, I can also look forward to a whole slew of ego-boosting audio samples from this flick.

Posted by: Rob at January 14, 2008 2:26 PM

don't hurt tom's nose?

how about earn your fucking paycheck, asshead.

that's exactly why R.I.P. hollywood.

mystery box. bleh.

Posted by: ablebody at January 16, 2008 2:29 AM
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