My brother’s coworkers got me to go in on buying several copies of Warcraft III at a discount. Just picked it up from him and I’m itching to install it. I wish I had a laptop that could handle it. I’ll have one by summer.
Speaking of wanting gadgets, I dreamt last night that this guy had given me an iPod. It was someone I knew only from him coming to Titanic shows. So I felt guilty that he’d given me this thing but on the other hand, I really wanted an iPod. So I was getting it all set up and playing with it and I woke up within the dream, thinking, “I’ve woken up, I really got an iPod!” Bit of a rude wakeup when I finally came to for real.
Maybe I’ll have one soon. But then I read reports of newer, smaller storage and I worry how soon iPod 2 would follow an impulsive purchase. Right before the expo, I read a post on AppleInsider where the author made predictions based on how much he’d be screwed by a new product. Funny funny.
Remember Moore’s Law. There’s always something new coming down the pipe, whether it’s just an incremental improvement or a paradigm shift. This is why you should never buy any technology that isn’t over twenty years old, and therefore mature. No one’s going to be abandoning the internal combustion engine or radar anytime soon. Go get yourself a nice radome today. Who wouldn’t want to track weather patterns, commercial aircraft, and secret government weapons projects? Not to your taste? How about a piston engined aircraft? Grumman used to make some very nice torpedo bombers, and I hear this North American “Mustang” is a pretty sweet little fighter with a good range. Scared to fly? Try eight-track casettes! I’m sure you can find some old Cheech and Chong material for a very reasonable price.
Obselete technology: your friend from the anti-future, where everything is like it used to be. I think they call it the passed or something.
Ever since I read a friend’s blog, I always read “coworkers” “cow orkers” when it is typed without the hypen.