I got an email today, announing the arrival of the 71" plasma TV. That's right... folks, nearly six whole feet of shiny plasma screen for your home viewing pleasure. Add to that a spanking new Kaleidescape multimedia server that stores all of your movies digitally and the world is a beautiful place indeed.

Naturally, I must have both of these gadgets. They meet all my requirements in technology, in that they are:

1. hideously expensive
2. shiny
3. have lots of buttons and pretty lights
4. come with an operating manual roughtly the size of the Encyclopeadia Britannica
5. I don't need them

And when I say hideously expensive, I do mean hideous. $70K US for the the TV and $27K US for the digital server.

I am now confronted with a choice. Which is more important - all these lovely new gadgets or eating, paying my tax bill and perhaps the odd house payment?

I know what I think. I mean, I do need to lose weight. And it's not like the ATO is gonna go bust without my money. And hell, the wretched house is haunted...

Suspect the tax department and my bank might disagree, though :)

Oh well... I'll just have to wait until the price comes down to less than a couple of new cars and a racehorse.

In the meantime, I can dream...

there was a problem accessing this blog entry via the rss feed from live journal, Jen. It very politely kept telling me there was no blog entries that matched my request - no matter how many times I annoyed it by clicking on the lj link *g*

I got that too. I was fine when I clicked on your main blog thingie. What this means is that you have to buy me that TV, to compensate for all taht extra work finding the live page so i could make this comment. [at this moment, Gillian is hiding where Jenny can't find her]

The link worked for me, but then I clicked on the second, identical LJ feed link.

I'm surprised the server's that expensive though, it doens't sound like the kind of thing that should be. *shrugs* Or maybe it's just me getting ahead of the shifting technological tide... or something.

yes, the second feed link wasn't there when I first commented *g* But it does indeed work

shiny is always an important reason for being anything technological.

You forgot a point.... It gives you smugging rights!!

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