Applestore

The great thing about apple stores is their networking. Not the visible one, the one that is just there, in the air, in the WiFiwaves. This post is a live feed from a Final Cut Pro seminar in the Apple store in Soho, New York City. And I am only connected to my server via the airport network in the store. I like that.
(I will not comment on this “workshop.”)

hours later:
Okay, because of some of the comments to this truly minmal post, I will now write a little more about the workshop.
Do you know the guys who get obsessed with the way how they shift the gears in their stick shift cars, to get the optimal power out of the engine? The sound of the machine under the hood is great, the car is shiny and freshly polished. The guy is making donuts on the high school parking lot and obsessing about it at the age of 29. Others, who do not ever talk about the way they like to hold the steering wheel, actually drive from coast to coast. The workshop at the Apple store focused a bit too much on the ways to hold the steering wheel and too little about actually getting somewhere. The problem with such presentations is of course that the audience becomes engaged in the insanity. “You mean you can move still pictures around and make a ‘documentary’ out of high resolution photoshop files?” “Yes, even the really high resolution 400Dpi ones.”
There happen to be real questions sometimes, but not always the matching answers. Q: “Can you tell us what these icons on the right hand side are for? They look pretty big which makes me think they might be important?” A:“Final Cut Pro is one of these softwares (!) that you can never fully learn. It is like photoshop. You can read books about it and learn about it, and even then there are features you will never have explored. I will answer more specific questions after the session. I do not want to confuse some of the people here who do not know Final Cut Pro that well.” Que?
The climax of the session was a little “Action movie” cut together by the instructor “on that version 1.0 of Final Cut, which was like, totally buggy.” The movie was about a Karate fighting female jogger who manages to knock out a kick boxing attacker, who’s intentions are clear. (He wants to kick box.) The comment that followed was a true classic. “The great thing about making your own movie is that you get to put your name all over the place and see it on the big screen. This is what it is all about.” (I should be quiet with my comments, there are about 1250 instances of my name on this site of mine.)