Genius

Have you been to your local Apple Store lately?

We make a date night out of it about every 3 months. (or more, ask my kids, they love it)

It's the only place you can go hug, caress and oggle the hardware and not get strange looks.

Don't believe me?

Go hang out at the Apple Store.

How could you not anyway?

First of all, it's a Mac, Apple, Macintosh. Call it what you want.

2nd it works...damn near perfect. Have you ever recieved a fatal error sign on your mac? I think not. What? You don't have one? But you've used one and you want one right? No? Get off my blog. NOW. really, get off.

3rd just look at the packaging. You buy something at Apple, doesn't matter what it is. Your excited to take it home and play with it. They bring it out from the back room.

And you fall in love all over again. It's just so beautiful. It's effecient. It's organized. Need I say it just makes sense! You don't even want to take it out of the package. It's just too darn pretty. Right down to the receipt which they email to you. I so love that.


4th The Genius Bar. Now this is what I was really gonna talk about. In the rare event that something isn't working just perfectly on your mac or perhaps your just an idiot (as was the case of the man sitting next to me today. how can you not find the burn button in itunes or imovie? Seriously?) then you take it to see an Apple Genius.

See my iphone, it got a little sick. Just some sniffles thats all. I'm sure it's because I used and abused it. I dropped it once, it's true, it had a small dent. But hey, at least I didn't drop it in the toilet, eh Natalie! (miraculously hers has almost recovered from that disaster) Anyway, the point. My phone had frozen on me 5-6 times. I would reboot and all was well. A bit annoying. So I'm at the Gateway today and I decide to see what they have to say.Long story short, I have a new iphone.

Just like that. Almost no questions asked.

I Love You Apple.

But here's something I didn't expect.

Wait, first of all, this is what I did expect and had previously experienced.See the Genius, the one in the black shirt for all of you who did not get off my blog when asked to do so. He's sort of good looking, young, a bit trendy most of the time, only slightly computer geekish. Well that is what all the genius' used to look like.

Now, they look like...well take the guy a few photo's up, holding all the iphone bags. Take him, now make him 6 inches shorter, 50lbs heavier, balder, scruffier, geekier, and throw in some 'still live with my mother' vibes.

I'm not really sure what happened, but I have a theory.
All the PC guys, you know the ones that fit that last description, they finally saw the light or they lost their jobs. Take your pick. And they thought to themselves, those Apple Genius' are pretty cool, I'll bet they get lots of chicks. And there you have it.

All the real Genius' are working from home, teaching the slower crowd how to use their new mac, and making bank I might say.