If you haven’t seen it on digg already or read about it on Leah’s website, Leah Culver is a 24 year old female who has come up with a brilliant idea! To pay for a new laptop to replace her aging 6 year old G3 iMac (nicknamed “Banquo”) she setup a website to take advertisements from whoever had the money to be laser etched into her new machine.
Working for Instructables part of Squid Labs she had access to the laser etching machine at Squid Labs to actually use for the etching of her brand new C2D MBP. I read about the story on digg and quickly zipped Leah off an email to have her on my podcast, PreviewCast, and to my amazement she responded that she’d love to, so we setup a date for yesterday (Sunday) and she co-hosted and was a special guest on Episode 14 (yet to be released).
I must say I enjoyed her company, she was a great participant, and she seemed to really enjoy herself. The episode will hopefully be released soon, so hold tight but until then you can visit Leah’s webpage and read up over there, and she also told us on the episode and I just IM’d her she’ll be updating the website in the near future so stay tuned!
Congrats. I invited her to my party in SF during macworld. I hope to meet her. I’ll let her know you and I go way back, it wil be testament to her on how small the mac community is.
Congrats to you if she ends up joining the party Adam. Yeah it’ll probably blow her mind.
You and I, now that you’ve got yourself a MacBook need to video chat again, sorry for blowing you off last time but I really was not presentable :p.
Yea, it really does show how small the community is. I’m new to community as I just purchased myself a macbook in August, and i’m loving it.
best way to get a free laptop and it’s very nice too. thanks for the links!
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We all know the reason she got it was because she was hot
I mean if I made a site like that, I’d be lucky to get a penny.