Nemo cancels Microsoft's Surface Pro launch Microsoft’s super-select, invitation-only Surface Pro launch event in New York has been cancelled thanks to a big fish. The general manager of Microsoft’s Surface team Panos Pany tweeted that he wouldn’t be able to attend the event at Best Buy in Times Square because of blizzard warnings hanging over the New York City area. …
This storm is no normal Winter storm for the East Coast of the U.S. Some areas could receive up to three feet of snow. NYC expects to have 14" which will shut everything down including all airports. There is no place to put 14" of snow in the metro NY area so it must be trucked away which takes a long time. Stores have exhausted their supplies of bread, food, milk, beer, etc. as many people will also lose electrical power with the freezing rain/sleet that is also expected with the snow. This storm could be of historic proportions for the Northeast.
Now can only be topped by 5000 feet deep hole opening up underneath Redmond, so all of Microsoft falls into a giant magma chamber....
Satan: "I welcome the company. What? It's Microsoft? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww - Quick Plug the hole, Plug the hole - I don't want them down here with me, they will give me a bad name - it will make devil worshipping uncool and unsellable too!"
The first Surface Microsoft let in the world -- and Nature reacted with Sandy.
The second Surface Microsoft let in the world -- Nemo comes.
The third time, they say is the final one.
Let's pray there will be no third Surface, or the US might suffer some more. For who knows what the Nature's reaction would be... a meteorite hitting Times Square?
I find it a shame that our National Weather Service didn't name the storm 'Ahab'.
That would have provided fodder for all manner of comments based on 'The Great White Whale' vs 'The Irrelevant White Elephant'. As, for example: "The tale of The Great White Whale and The Irrelephant White Elephant." OOOoooooooohhhhhhh! See how easy it is? Now it's your turn!
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