So, okay. I mentioned briefly my dabbling with iCal, and how I wet my pants over the whole subscription thing, right? And one of the calendars I subscribed to was naturally enough the one published by my friendly neighborhood Apple store, right? So then this morning I’m looking at the events listed and I happen to notice that there’s an advanced Jaguar workshop this very afternoon, and I happen to notice that I also have to return videos this afternoon which means I’m going to be in the neighborhood anyway, so that’s how I ended up going to an advanced Jaguar workshop at the SoHo Apple store.

And, see, I can’t really complain all that much because it was free and the long-suffering Apple employee teaching it did maintain an admirable patience and good humor despite being subjected to unbelievably vapid questions and painful attempts at sarcasm from iBook-toting soul-patch-sporting OS 9 users who figured they should just skip the beginner level workshops since they’re, like, totally beyond that - but at the same time I do have to complain a little bit because there wasn’t anything even a little bit advanced about it, and I walked out an hour and a half later with two new tidbits of information (one of which turned out to be wrong when I looked it up from home). When I think “advanced Jaguar workshop”, I don’t think I’ll be learning what a contextual menu is, or how to customize icons, or why PDFs are cool. That’s all stuff you need to know, definitely, but if that’s advanced then I shudder to think what the beginner session was like.

But on the other hand, I did get to molest the iPods.