SNUG

Written: October 22, 2002
Last Updated: October 24, 2002

Orange iPods and two new members at SNUG!

Two new people were at the latest Stanford Newton User Group meeting in Palo Alto this evening. Paul and Melissa told me that they were at the Apple Store Grand Opening last year and saw me on the rooftop taking pictures! Furthermore, they mentioned that they were in one of my pictures! I'm thinking it's this photo, where they are standing in front of the Apple employee with the wireless laptop, right?

Wayne showed off his modified iPod featuring an orange backlight. No, he didn't replace the backlight on his MP3 player. He took a photographic gel (which you can buy from Keeble and Shucat next door to Printer's Inc.), opened up his iPod, and carefully placed the precision cut gel between the lucite and the LCD. The modification makes it harder to read the iPod's screen when the backlight is off, but oh the beautiful color when it's activated!

In total, there were 12 people at the SNUG meeting tonight: Flash, Glen, Melissa, Paul, Rosie, Wayne, Greg, Sir Isaac, Randeep, Dave (whose birthday it was today), Peter, and myself. We've become more than a bunch of Silicon Valley self-professed nerds who sit around a table talking about a discontinued product. Over the 8+ years, we've become friends. Newton talk gives way to discussions on politics, health, world events, technology, and more. January 2003 will witness the 9th anniversary of SNUG. It should be fun!

Rosie and Wayne

Happy Birthday, Dave!

Paul and Melissa

Enter The Photo Gallery

Reader Comments

Yep, Adam, you're right! That's the picture of us. The meeting was great, and we look forward to attending more of them. Definitely a bunch of interesting people!

-- posted by Paul @ Wednesday, October 23 2002, 16:44 pm EDT

I was all primed to go to my first SNUG meeting last night -- then as fate would have it I ran out the door yesterday morning without my Newton! ARGH! Well, maybe next month....

-- posted by Jeremy Bond Shepherd @ Wednesday, October 23 2002, 21:06 pm EDT

Great meeting Adam! I'll be looking forward to the January anniversary meeting too.

Need any help? Lets plan some surprises and make it a special one to be sure.

-- posted by Greg Wayman @ Wednesday, October 23 2002, 21:42 pm EDT

HEy!! That's my computer! :)

-- posted by eric @ Sunday, October 27 2002, 20:10 pm EST

Hey _I'm_ the Apple employee holding the wireless iBook in the photo mentioned above.

Hi Paul and Melissa ;-)

Seriously...

I was demoing AirPort, Mac OS X and QuickTime for most of the day. I even had my Sony PC-100 MiniDV camera (its the grey thing on my waist) to show of the odd iMovie capture. I urn to be recognized!

-- posted by Victor @ Tuesday, October 29 2002, 4:03 am EST

wow an orange iPod! Can you get different coloured gel???

--posted by Rambo Enjun @ Friday, December 27 2002, 9:20 am EST

You can purchase photographic gels in any number of colors. Go to your local professional photo store to inquire, or check out B&H Photo Video at:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

--posted by Adam @ Friday, December 27 2002, 12:57 pm EST