1995 3 Months NYC A Jewel Eivissa Tree Abuse ECO Black Friday Bocadillo Danger! Estofado Sangria Rave Cannibis Camino Viejo Neutrinos Weather Roosters JCS The PM Plongeé Smila Customs O. J. Verdict 1995 Eivissa (Ibiza): Fish Monger A Roar MacWorld Padinkos Bye E, Hello GC Gran Canaria Where A Tour How Food Yumbo Las Palmas Playa 1995 Gran Canaria: Potpourri Norteños More Food Irishmen Heading Home USA With Dad Back at Home
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1995 Gran Canaria: More Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
It was late afternoon as started back toward the bus station. I didn't want to arrive too late at Playa del Inglés.
That bit of international intrique done with, I swiftly took refuge in the student quarter, where the now-enraged authorities would have their hands full should they try to comb the neighborhood for dissidents. (Forgive me; I've read one too many novel about the crushing of the Spring Revolution in Prague.)
Wild imagination aside, I did walk into the student quarter to refresh myself with strong caffiene. Across from a high school I spied students studying and drinking coffee. "Just the place for me", I thought, as I ordered a café solo. The single shot of espresso revived a traveller tired from the heat and sun (and run-ins with vicious...., oh, never mind).
I struck out in the direction of the bus station, mas o minus. In a few short minutes I came across an Apple sticker affixed to the rear-window of a Volkswagen. Placing a selection of variously-sized stickers in each Macintosh box was the idea of a marketing genius. I've seen those stickers everywhere. People feel they have to use them. There's one in the window of ECO as well. Barely a day goes by when I don't see one of them, somewhere.
It occured to me, caffiene pounding through my veins, that the free stickers were typical of early guerilla advertising at which Apple was so good. Microsoft has been trying to copy the ease-of-use in the Macintosh operating system since the mid-80s, and never has someone said "hey! let's put Windows stickers into every box."
Of course, if Microsoft produced Windows stickers they'd probably come with a 45-page manual, require extensive changes to your car's AUTOEXEC.BAT, and then provide full sticker functionality for only 10 per cent of the automotive windshields out there. But Chairman Bill would declare them a standard, even so.
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