From: Keith Wong (pirate_at_lava.net)
Date: Thu Oct 07 1999 - 04:57:37 EDT
--Haha! Hey that's great, I loved giving the Comp city guys hassles! They knew so little yet talked so much. We've only got CompUSA on
the island of Oahu now, and their salesmen basically ignore you.
For everyone else who's not familar with hawaiian terms, Haole is a slang for a Caucasian person. Don't call yourself that though
David. Ha-ole means "no air" or not worth breathing the same air as. It's definitely an insult as Hawaiians greeted good friends and
family by putting their noses close and inhaling eachothers air. But it's become a regular slang for caucasians in hawaii. Okay nuff
of Hawaiian culture time, now go forth and impress your girlfriends and wives with your new found worldliness. =) I'm gonna try and
order some trackpoint covers and I'll let you guys know what I find.
--Keith Wong
Honolulu, Hawaii
David Ross wrote:
> > the black trackpoint tips WERE IBM oem, but very early on..
> > i have two or three of them..
> > they are the smooth versions.. :-)
>
> Well, as I said, it was on a TI, not an IBM. Um, the story of how I got it is kind of funny. We needed a new cover for the TI, and
> so I went down to what was then Computer City. They sold a variety of models with trackpoints - IBM, TI, Toshiba, etc. - and so I
> figured they'd have a cover from at least one of them. When I asked at the appropriate counter, I was told that they didn't sell
> them, didn't know where to find one, and would I please go away. So, I ambled over to the laptop section, and when a salescreature
> descended on me I asked the same question - he went into the back, came out again, and repeated what I was told before. "What?" I
> asked loudly, "you sell the machines but not the consumables?" When he said they weren't consumables but parts, I pointed out all
> the machines on display missing their covers, "and they're brand new, too!" I didn't do this quietly - Keith would probably
> classify me as "one loud Haole" - and soon I had lots of laptop customers paying attention to my argument that it was ridiculous to
> sell trackpoint machines but not spare covers. Finally - I assume to get rid of me - someone showed up with the aforementioned
> black cover and gave it to me.
>
> I hope the would-be laptop customers who were there all learned from me; after all, the state does pay me to educate her citizens!
>
> - David
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