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Potter mania at Border's in Palo Alto
At 7:30 pm there was already a line at Border's books in Palo Alto.
Talking to an ex-Sun graphic chips designer next to me in the line I learnt that you could buy the book only at midnight. The line was to get tickets to be able to buy the book at midnight.
I love the Potter series but not THAT much!
Anyway these days I'm knee deep in Dan Simmon's "Olympos", the long awauted sequel to "Ilium", so Potter will wait a day or two.
What I found interesting was to see all these Silicon Valley folks, you find a higher percentage of engineers and scientists here than anywhere else, indulging in this celebration. There was even a whitch-dressed girl waiting in line for her ticket.
The underlying lesson I take from this phenomenon is that the crave for stories runs deeper in our psyche than any rational varnish we pour onto it.
Potter mania at Border's in Palo Alto
At 7:30 pm there was already a line at Border's books in Palo Alto.
Talking to an ex-Sun graphic chips designer next to me in the line I learnt that you could buy the book only at midnight. The line was to get tickets to be able to buy the book at midnight.
I love the Potter series but not THAT much!
Anyway these days I'm knee deep in Dan Simmon's "Olympos", the long awauted sequel to "Ilium", so Potter will wait a day or two.
What I found interesting was to see all these Silicon Valley folks, you find a higher percentage of engineers and scientists here than anywhere else, indulging in this celebration. There was even a whitch-dressed girl waiting in line for her ticket.
The underlying lesson I take from this phenomenon is that the crave for stories runs deeper in our psyche than any rational varnish we pour onto it.