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[lsanderson]

Offa work today! Yeah! I was thinking about K-Pax, but A.O. Scott reamed it a new orifice in today's New York Times, and even the local reviewer was unimpressed. This is not good news. There was a good short review of a Canadian werewolf movie that's playing there.. Ginger Snaps. Of course, I could always work on the basement...

On retrospect, I'm less and less impressed with the Microsoft Rollout yesterday. The streams/fireworks at the start was probably the highlight. Now if I woulda won a copy of Windows XP...

1. They aimed the presentation at the home user. Who's at Microsoft rollouts? Corporate customers and IT people. Home users watch TV ads. Missing the audience is a terribly huge mistake.

2. The cute guy with the guitar. SSB was sorta kinda almost cute, but as their demo problems rose later on in the day, the camcorder would not load in XP, and he was unable to stop the failed load, the cute guy got the guitar again. The punted and cut the demo, got the cheerleaders out (all female, sigh), and started giving away the freebies, (first they killed time by reading the list, but the camcorder still would not load). The cute guy with the guitar kept doing string things and riffs like people with guitars do when they launched into the giveaways. Now ifn he'd been Jimmy Hendricks, it still would not have much to do with Windows XP, and finally, one of the Microsoft guys came up on stage to (I think) get him to stop, waay into the drawings of freebies.

3. They're third mistake was to announce that you didn't hafta be there to win. Of course, they didn't announce this until after they cut out the camera demo and started drawing the prizes. Grr...

Note to self: Drink an espresso before going to see digital movies with low nekkid men counts. Those things you sleep through leave little impression on the mind.