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It’s tough to let go of the past. I remember when I bought my first DVD player 10 or 12 years ago; I loved the high-resolution digital video and audio it provided, but what was I supposed to do with my huge collection of VHS tapes? Not only would it be expensive to transfer or replace them, but I found I’d formed a strange, sentimental attachment to those clunky, obsolete icons of analog. So away they went, into boxes in the attic, not to be seen again for a decade. A funny thing happened, though… I missed ‘em. When I found a great deal online on a side-by-side DVD/VHS player, opening those boxes back up and digging through my old tapes was like Christmas morning. Oh, how empty my life had been without you, Robocop 2!
Today’s deal of the day works in much the same way. Sure, digital photos have proven their superiority conclusively at this point, which is what makes the frame’s widescreen digital display so enticing. Photo slideshows accompanied by MP3s? Yes, please! But I still have plenty of old-fashioned paper photos lying around. Are they no good anymore because they were taken in 1988? Of course they’re still good! And they deserve a place of honor next to the stupid pictures I took with my BlackBerry at 3 a.m. on St. Patricks Day.
Choices are overrated when you can have it all. Thanks, GPX!
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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I happen to believe GPS navigation devices to be one of history’s greatest inventions. For a chump like me who wouldn’t know north from south if the Civil War was still being fought, it’s a true Godsend to have a magical electronic friend to tell me where to turn to find the nearest KFC. My only gripe with GPS devices like today’s deal of the day is that they don’t go far enough. I think you know what I’m talking about—If my satellite navigation gadget is so good at finding the best route home, why isn’t it driving the car?
Sure, there’s the problem to be solved of how to prevent our robot chauffeurs from crashing into stuff, but if we’ve got the technology to pinpoint our car’s location from SPACE, it can’t be much more of a bother to slap a couple of proximity sensors on the bumpers, can it? Every time I think about it, my eyes glaze over: Instead of playing footsie with my brake pedal during my morning commute, I could just curl up on the couch in the back of my SUV and with the latest issue of Star magazine and watch that episode of Law and Order: SVU that I recorded the night before.
Hey, obviously I’m too lazy to unfold a map, is it really so difficult to believe that I’m too lazy to drive? What’s the point of creating all of these fancy robots if I still have to drive my own Chevy? Let’s put that bailout money to good use, if only to see the look on a cop’s face when he has to write my Nextar a ticket.
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