Since I was up and working on email early this morning I decided to head to the Coffee Tree on Walnut Street in Shadyside for a cup of coffee. I had to cross quite a line of people to actually get into the Coffee Tree. At 8am this morning the new iphone 3g is going on sale and this is quite a line of people waiting to get the new iphone.

While waiting in line - the Apple employees are handing out free coffee from the coffee tree (thank you for supporting a local business) and there are 2 guys working the line with clipboards of voter registration forms (I think they are wearing Obama buttons but I am not sure).

I did a quick search of Pittsburgh bloggers - thus far the only other person blogging about the iphone is blindsquirel.org - he decided the iphone 3g isn’t for him yet.

It’s now 8:30 am and the line is still stretching as far as the Coffee Tree.

I happened to be walking down Highland Ave this morning and came across a long, long line of people waiting for Obama tickets.  According to the campaign staff people had been waiting since 9 am.  They started to distribute tickets around noon.  By 2:30 they had given away all of the tickets and there were over 400 people on the waiting list.  Barack Obama will be in Pittsburgh on Friday for a town hall meeting at soldiers and sailors in Oakland.