Snow Blind

Some one please come up with a solution. This is worse than Y2K and pandemic swine flus combined.

It started out simple enough. Just a normal conversation with Zooks and escalated into, well, this:

Zooks: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~3/nhrKvrGP1a0/
Zooks: your next phone?
Me: well, since it sounds like it “might” be released sometime when I can get a new phone…
Zooks: I was thinking that too
Me: I have to wait until July 10
Me: er
Zooks: next year?
Me: that doesn’t work
Me: yeah
Zooks: july ’10
Me: july 2010
Zooks: I have to wait until Jan ’10
Zooks: there’s a new blackberry coming out in July that will be very tempting
Me: looks like I have about 6 months to figure out how I’m gonna refer to next year
Zooks: and a whole year to get it wrong
Me: I should have it ironed out sometime around 15 er, 2015
Zooks: if then
Me: at what point does this work?
Me: I didn’t have an issue in the 90′s
Zooks: after 12, cause then it won’t be confused with a month? or after 31 when it won’t beconfused for a day of hte month?
Zooks: if only we had the euro convention
Me: fuck, I’m gonna be dead before I can do it right
Zooks: yep

Zooks thinks it’s cold???

I’ll show her cold:

Despite Zooks’ relentless efforts to find me a new laptop, nothing has caught my fancy and I still haven’t gotten a replacement for my broken laptop. I don’t have a lot of spare change laying around to throw at something that will just be used for email, internet, some poker, porn, and some light development work. Really, the 4 year old laptop I had was able to keep up with my needs very aptly.

Despite my modest requirements, I still couldn’t bear breaking down and snatching up one of the many “good deals” that I have come across or been shown. What keeps coming up on the radar is some inexpensive Acer laptops from newegg.

But really??? Acer? Are you serious?

Why do I not like Acer? I’m not absolutely sure. It’s just been the poor image I have of it. Back in the day, the other clan of geeks I hung around and I associated Acer with the bargain basement products that they seemed to be. Queue up Mr. Green.

So I don’t really have any reason other than my own personal image of them, but I still find myself struggling with thought of actually owning one. Are my issues unfounded delusions of inferiority? It would seem that might be the case. These things seem to be getting reasonable reviews from both users and critics. Especially considering the price.

So here I sit, in a quandary trying to get over a 10 year old image of a product solely based on some, what was most likely, elitist view. Fair? Probably not. But it does go to show how valuable image is and how hard it is to overcome.

Back to my issue at hand, though. Any one have any first hand experience to prove I’m being unreasonable with me valuation of Acer products so that I can just get over this petty issue and get back to getting a new computer back in my hands? I’ve got tons of porn development projects to catch up on.

A while ago in a web album pissing match that I was having with zooks, one of the (few) points I had to concede with flickr to picasa web albums was if it stored and played video. It seemed like an odd justification to have to make for a web album, but it sucked to have to admit defeat on it non the less.

Well, it appears that I can now remove that point from picasa’s side of the score board. Flickr does (or will soon) have video storage on it. So to you Zooks. I (and flickr) still win.

Proof positive that Nickelback is in fact so NOT HOT that the sound of them can extinguish fire.