New computer.

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Subject: Hello, my geek friends.
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:38:33 -0800
From: Ken Woods <kwoods@80below.com>
To: Ken Woods <kwoods@80below.com>


As some of you know, I started to buy a new computer last fall.

In deliberation, I fell into a cyclical cycle of evaluating the 
materialism that's infected society, the static value of something that 
has inevitable obsolescence, and how quantum electrodynamics governs 
everything that happens in the universe.[1]

My conclusion, out of financial considerations and sheer disinterest in 
joining the new millennium, was to swear off most of technology and 
retreat in comfort with my Athlon 1000/128mb[2] to the year 1995, where 
text based web browsers and email clients were sufficiently fast.

7 months have now elapsed, and I've now come to the conclusion that, 
yeah, that being stuck in 1995 just isn't working for me. At all.

While this (semi)tongue-in-cheek comment won't surprise any of you, I 
was shocked to learn that one can listen to music AND browse the 
internet AND send an email, all at the same time?[3]
Multitasking isn't a myth!  It just requires some manner of hardware 
that will support it, and my shitty computer just doesn't.

So in the ongoing interests of buying something new, I've spent some 
time playing around at newegg.[4]  The results are listed here:

<A HREF="http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=1748969"> http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=1748969</A>

If you've gotten this email I want to hear your comments or because I 
thought it might make you laugh.  Or both.
Or neither, as there are 3 people copied that were in my addressbook 
that I simply do not recognize. (You're not one of them, by the way.)[5]

In any case, comment via return email or at newegg.

Without wax,[6]

Ken






[1]Has anyone ever noticed that the abbreviation for "quantum 
electrodynamics" is Q.E.D.?  Is there some manner of relationship in the 
universe between that and "quod erat demonstrandum" ?

[2]Yes, seriously. Sure, it's a got a 250gig RAID.  One needs that, 
however, when the computer crashes every day or so.

[3]I can do that now, as long as I don't mind......................
........listening to........music like...............
.........................this as the computer..........................
..............................swaps................
....in and out as it.......tries to send................................
..............the email.

[4]No, I'm not obsessed.  There's a difference between obsession and 
interest.  It's a very thin, fine line, and I enjoy skipping back and 
forth across it.

[5]Or maybe you are.  No way to tell, is there?

[6]I don't care what Oxford says. Their etymology is wrong.