My buddy David went to the opening of the new Apple store at Barton Creek Mall this morning. (An Apple store in Central Texas is long overdue, as far as I’m concerned.) David took a few minutes to start a video chat session with me from there so that I could vicariously take part it the revelries. I held up a magic markered “Hello Apple Geeks!” sign for the benefit of the crowd, a few of whom got a good chuckle out of it. The mob looked excited, and the store looked great — I’ll have to make a pilgrimage soon. (Ironically, the store is right on the way to my old job, so would have been much easier for me to get to several months before it actually opened.)