Mavericks & Maverick

Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 - 12:19 a.m.

Well, Mavericks is here, and the local radio station played a bunch of surf music last night in their honor.

We plebes who are mere land animals have been told to stay the fuck away and watch it online instead; I guess that's okay.

I will always worry about those men and women, and have done so ever since those waves claimed Mark Foo.

Good luck to everybody participating.

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The Gizmodo thing has taken on a life of its own.

Brian Lam, who was at the Computer Electronics Show with a Gizmodo press pass, and a little doodad called a TVBgone has been banned from returning to CES for the foreseeable future. The story is that the TVBGone was used to turn off display screens in the exhibitor booths. Also, at least one presentation to the press was disrupted, too.

I'm kind of in two minds about this.

I am a prankster at heart. You who are my regular readers know this, and I'm up for a genuinely harmless and good prank as enthusiastically as the next person.

But this thing that happened at CES -- Hm.

I'm giving a cautious thumbs-down.

If the prank had only been performed during one specific window of time, say, during the middle of lunch hour, when the A-Listers who knew what the fuck they were doing in the booths were off getting something to eat, and the window-licking understudies were there just to guard the stuff, and who had no idea how to turn the displays on and off -- if it had only happened during a set period of time, THEN that would have been funny.

But there are some companies whose only opportunity to pitch comes once a year, there at CES.

And if any of THOSE presentations were ruined by this prank, then that's completely fucked, and completely wrong.

Which of course means a bunch more shit-heads are going to try the same thing next year.

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My absentee ballot arrived a few days ago, so I'm gonna vote this weekend! Neener!

Okay, that's it. Have a good Saturday.

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