Monday, 7 April 2008
Impulse Buyer!
I'm a bit of an impulse buyer. I see something online or in a bricks-and-mortar shop, and decide I want it.
My most recent grab was my EEEPC, but before that it was my Playstation 3, then my MDA Vario III, and before that it was a Wii, then a Nabaztag/tag, a digital photo frame, my MDA Vario.
I always get a bit wrapped up in what will I do with it, I try and get involved in the various communities around what I've bought, but generally I don't manage to last long, and pretty soon, it's a lump of unused plastic sitting on a shelf.
A perfect example of this is the PS3. Having read loads of stuff online about how great a Linux platform it was, I rushed out and bought it fairly soon after it came out. I downloaded the YellowDog Linux ISO for the PS3, and tried to install it. And failed. I did this about 5 or 6 times, and eventually decided that it was more effort than it was worth. Another good example is the Nabaztag/tag, where I bought it based on what I thought I could do with it, and without actually finding out what you can do with it... which turned out to be not as much as I thought you could.
I've managed to not get a large (>35") TV only because every time we bought one and got it home, it wasn't working or it failed after a couple of days. Jules and I agreed that it wasn't worth the hassle, after the third time we bought one.
My latest desire is VGA glasses. I really want to be able to have glasses on when I'm using my EEE, but for the life of me I can't actually figure out what I'll do with them beyond using them as a bigger screen... but here's the thing, the maximum resolution you can achieve with VGA (or Video) glasses is 640x480, unless you're prepared to spend over £1000, which frankly, I'm not.
If you read my twitter feed (http://twitter.com/JonSpriggs), you'll know that I bought Wii Fit this weekend just gone. I've gone a bit bonkers with it, doing more than 3 hours exercise on Saturday and Sunday, and then 10 minutes on Monday and this morning, and I've done another 30 minutes tonight, with more to come once Jules has done some on there. Jules worries that I'll get bored with it if I keep at it. I hope she's not right.
My most recent grab was my EEEPC, but before that it was my Playstation 3, then my MDA Vario III, and before that it was a Wii, then a Nabaztag/tag, a digital photo frame, my MDA Vario.
I always get a bit wrapped up in what will I do with it, I try and get involved in the various communities around what I've bought, but generally I don't manage to last long, and pretty soon, it's a lump of unused plastic sitting on a shelf.
A perfect example of this is the PS3. Having read loads of stuff online about how great a Linux platform it was, I rushed out and bought it fairly soon after it came out. I downloaded the YellowDog Linux ISO for the PS3, and tried to install it. And failed. I did this about 5 or 6 times, and eventually decided that it was more effort than it was worth. Another good example is the Nabaztag/tag, where I bought it based on what I thought I could do with it, and without actually finding out what you can do with it... which turned out to be not as much as I thought you could.
I've managed to not get a large (>35") TV only because every time we bought one and got it home, it wasn't working or it failed after a couple of days. Jules and I agreed that it wasn't worth the hassle, after the third time we bought one.
My latest desire is VGA glasses. I really want to be able to have glasses on when I'm using my EEE, but for the life of me I can't actually figure out what I'll do with them beyond using them as a bigger screen... but here's the thing, the maximum resolution you can achieve with VGA (or Video) glasses is 640x480, unless you're prepared to spend over £1000, which frankly, I'm not.
If you read my twitter feed (http://twitter.com/JonSpriggs), you'll know that I bought Wii Fit this weekend just gone. I've gone a bit bonkers with it, doing more than 3 hours exercise on Saturday and Sunday, and then 10 minutes on Monday and this morning, and I've done another 30 minutes tonight, with more to come once Jules has done some on there. Jules worries that I'll get bored with it if I keep at it. I hope she's not right.
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