Pre-Expo Picture Show
Created 2008-01-13 19:16

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Pre-Expo Picture Show
Posted 01/13/2008 at 8:16:01pm | by Roberto Baldwin
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The aura of secrecy that precedes each Mac Expo is almost too much for one Mac|Life staffer. I decided to grab my camera and snoop around the Moscone center today. You know, in case Steve showed up holding a new product and was giving out iTunes gift cards. It could happen.

 

Here is what I found.

 

Anything with the words San Francisco on it must have a Cable Car. It's the law.

 

That something in the air is security, and lots of it.

 

 

I really want an Apple security jacket.

 

Clean sidewalks are important to a successful expo.

 

Conference registration.

 

While Apple security wasn't too happy to see me snooping around with a camera, the Jolibee mascot down the block seemed ecstatic at my presence.

 

Don't tell Steve, but some of the Apple employees are litter bugs. Did I pick this piece of trash up out of civic duty or because I'm a giddy fanboy?

 

For now, this is as close as most people will get to the Moscone center before the expo doors open. The security folks were cordial, even when I spent too long looking at the broadcast truck outside Moscone north. The security guard made sure I knew I should move along. He was nice about it in an intimidating way and I left. They have a tough job keeping pasty-faced fanboys from taking pictures of top-secret Apple stuff. Maybe tomorrow I'll bring a peace offering of donuts.

 

I never did find Steve, not even in the Jolibee.

 

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[1] http://www.maclife.com/user/rbaldwin
[2] http://www.maclife.com/article/say_hello_to_a_new_apple_font
[3] http://www.maclife.com/article/the_mac_life_expo_survival_guide
[4] http://www.maclife.com/article/italian_website_gets_inside_moscone