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There’s a New Geek in Town

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Geek Squad. That’s Best Buy’s new tech support department. I was there about a month ago having my digital camera replaced on warranty because of a lens defect. Genius Bar rip-off, I immediately thought. The image they’re trying to project as shown here is that of hip, Men in Black-like, computer repair geeks. Hmmm, wasn’t this already done by Laporte in the opening segment of The Screen Savers? Well, according to this, the Geek Squad has been around for about 10 years until they were bought by Best Buy. They even one-up the Genius Bar by doing house calls. Apple, are you listening? On second thought, scratch that. I’m afraid I’d get unsolicited critiques of my design sensibilities from Apple employees visiting my home.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, June 27th, 2004 at 11:44 pm and is filed under Faux Phlog, Geek Speak. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “There’s a New Geek in Town”

  1. Geek790 Says:
    February 1st, 2005 at 12:24 pm

    Your links are broken

  2. daniel Says:
    February 1st, 2005 at 4:20 pm

    Thanks for the heads up. I fixed the links except for the Geek Squad website links. Since it went all-Flash and got rid of the HTML pages, all I could do is point to the homepage.