Stygian Syzygy: also, the "live stream" Apple advertised? Wasn't.
enchawntment!: oh?
Stygian Syzygy: Yeah.. apparently they weren't prepared for the amount of interest
enchawntment!: seriously??
Stygian Syzygy: I know, right?
enchawntment!: not prepared for the interest that they specifically tried to generate?
enchawntment!: seriously, you can't big-gorilla your way in here, building new buildings*, taking out trees, and then pretend you didn't know anyone would care??
* Not exactly, not in the sense of a permanent structure, though I think our Marketing department's calling it a "tent" (their exact term in the email inviting faculty and staff to take a look tomorrow afternoon, bring your District photo ID on pain of something) is rather understating it:
For reference, here's a picture of the empty space from a point roughly at the bottom of the steps that guard is standing at the top of:
Really, guys? You couldn't predict you might need pretty robust serving of internet traffic to stream your event here?
And yes, they did take out some trees that had only been there two years, like the one that replaced the tree in the bottom right of that photo when the Sunken Garden was recently renovated. (In kind of an ugly way, I might add - repaving the already-asphalt areas, ok, but they replaced half the grass with gravel because nobody knows why, and then they go and flag it part of the so-called "Historic Corridor" between the Trianon Building and the Baldwin Winery like it looks anything other than totally modern?) I hope those are at least going to be replaced. I can only imagine how much money Apple must have given the college for the privilege of having this event here (although I suppose De Anza probably won a low-bidding war or something).![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
enotsola says this is apparently the anniversary date and place of Steve Jobs' first product presentation, or something, but I don't know whether that's verified.
Oh, and did I mention there was basically a turf war on some of the days back in August that we were trying to get a truck in here to take our pallets of boxed library books away to storage, since Apple (well, their construction and security dudes) were blocking driveways and laying claim to every which where and saying no way you plebs can't walk through here etc. etc.? Fortunately that was not something I had to personally sort out.
enchawntment!: oh?
Stygian Syzygy: Yeah.. apparently they weren't prepared for the amount of interest
enchawntment!: seriously??
Stygian Syzygy: I know, right?
enchawntment!: not prepared for the interest that they specifically tried to generate?
enchawntment!: seriously, you can't big-gorilla your way in here, building new buildings*, taking out trees, and then pretend you didn't know anyone would care??
* Not exactly, not in the sense of a permanent structure, though I think our Marketing department's calling it a "tent" (their exact term in the email inviting faculty and staff to take a look tomorrow afternoon, bring your District photo ID on pain of something) is rather understating it:
For reference, here's a picture of the empty space from a point roughly at the bottom of the steps that guard is standing at the top of:
Really, guys? You couldn't predict you might need pretty robust serving of internet traffic to stream your event here?
And yes, they did take out some trees that had only been there two years, like the one that replaced the tree in the bottom right of that photo when the Sunken Garden was recently renovated. (In kind of an ugly way, I might add - repaving the already-asphalt areas, ok, but they replaced half the grass with gravel because nobody knows why, and then they go and flag it part of the so-called "Historic Corridor" between the Trianon Building and the Baldwin Winery like it looks anything other than totally modern?) I hope those are at least going to be replaced. I can only imagine how much money Apple must have given the college for the privilege of having this event here (although I suppose De Anza probably won a low-bidding war or something).
enotsola says this is apparently the anniversary date and place of Steve Jobs' first product presentation, or something, but I don't know whether that's verified.Oh, and did I mention there was basically a turf war on some of the days back in August that we were trying to get a truck in here to take our pallets of boxed library books away to storage, since Apple (well, their construction and security dudes) were blocking driveways and laying claim to every which where and saying no way you plebs can't walk through here etc. etc.? Fortunately that was not something I had to personally sort out.