Playstation 3 Blues
So I thought I was going to get a PS3… boy was I mistaken! I had the whole game plan layed out, nothing could go wrong… until I found out that I was not as much of a ubergeek as I thought. I was going to head out of work early yesterday morning and go wait in line at my local Wally World to get the anticipated "PS3 of Antioch". I have a friend that has connections to the store manager of Walmart, so I had him give his friend a call to find out how many people were already there. His conversation went something like this, "Hey "walmart friend manager guy" I have a ubergeek friend who would like to get a PS3 how many people are there in line?" This is when Walmart guy started to laugh… Not a good sign…
You see, apparently there is a whole new level of ubergeek that I did not know existed. Maybe it existed once a long time ago. You know, the time where if you could make a fire out of rocks you were this kind of ubergeek. But now this ubergeek only exists in the shadows of their closet listening to the hummmm of processors. LED’s, and 10 Terabyte RAID 10,000 RPM hard drives. Well, all I have to say is they are real and they can be seen only one time a year…. Game console release day, day, day, day.. (echo for effect).
I call them Superdooperubergeeks…
You see, a Superdooperubergeek is about as rare as they come. They have crossed the vast lands of cyberspace and are adventurers of their own kind. Superdooperubergeeks are bigger than web 2.0… they are more like web 7.2 1/2. They are the guys and girls that laugh at the speed of an Intel Extreme dual Core processor… because they made one that fast 10 years ago… They are the ones that intimidate Bill Gates … They exist… you just have to look hard enough.
Back to the story,
Walmart guy informed my friend that Superdooperubergeeks had already been lining up days before the release. Days! I guess by now we have all seen the lines of drenched Superdooperubergeeks, waiting in line at their local Best Buy or Walmart.. cold… tired… smelly (just joking
) ready get their hands on what they had been waiting for… a brand new PS3.
Well, its unfortunate but our Walmart already had more people waiting in line than stock of PS3′s they had to sell… Surprise!!!. Oh well… I was going to sell mine anyway.
So, for you few Superdooperubergeeks out there that were able to get you hands on a brand new PS3… I salute you… you set a standard that few ubergeeks ever attain and even fewer know exist…