Perfect Things - Cannot Converge on a Solution
For a while now, I've been enamoured with the concept of "perfect things." Beyond Martha Stewart's "good things," perfect things are compact, multi-purpose, elegant... and more.
Take, for example, the humble swiss army knife. It's perfect. It fits in your pocket, does many things, and all the bits retract into a nice, smooth package.
Retractable laptop cords are perfect. I think everything should have retractable cords.
In fact, if anybody knows of a super light (2 pound) laptop with a 17 inch screen, 8 hour battery life, and built in retractable cords, let me know.
I'm so enamored with the idea of perfect things that I get frustrated when I can't find a perfect whatever-I'm-trying-to-buy. In this case, I started to think about what to get Jon Erik for his birthday and he made a suggestion that we should buy DVR. So I start looking at DVRs, Tivos, Media Center PCs. *Sigh* It seems like there ought to be a perfect convergence product, but the tech just isn't there yet. Every product seems to have some mish-mash of features but a longer list of limitations.
Maybe next year.
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I had the same problem in my recent selection of a new case for my computer. No one case contained all the elements I really wanted.
By the way, the comment/trackback links on your entries don't seem to work. I get a "file not found" error.
Check out mythTV yet? It's a free (open source) PVR/Tivo like setup for linux PCs...they even are starting to sell prebuilt computers with it installed...for a hefty fee.
It's even made by a Case graduate - Isaac Richards.
I use the program dialy...it's amazing. If you're not up for buying a prebuilt machine or installing linux...check out KnopMyth.