Ok, first off, I know this isn't really a useful post, but if I can't tap the collective wisdom of likeminded geeks in a forum, where can I do it?
I honestly don't mind waiting till January, or maybe even feb to get my Pandora, and I can just about get by without whatever interest my bank would give me on it in that time
BUT I've realised alot of my christmas plan this year was involving a dinky little high tech gadget.
Im gonna be working pretty much all of christmas (6.30 AM start x-mas eve, no freaking over time!>!?!?!.... ah well at least the place is heated thats one better than my first job
), but still hope to spend some time with friends I never really get to see dispite living in the same town (I quite like giving gifts so its a good excuse lol), and I was hoping to play some king of fighters (Im guessing Im not unique here, but the only time I get to play 2d fighters with willing opponants is round the hlidays).
And therein lies my problem.
I had some intricate fantasy, of me standing behind the counter at work, pandora proped behind the screen, monkey island running, solving puzzels between customers, finishing work and walking with my entire music collection on a couple of SD's, getting round a friends house and aweing them with the bleeding edge emulation tech in my hand, then dissapointing them when all I use it for is 80's arcade machines and Neo Geo games
Now Im gonna have to accept that it isnt gonna play out that way.
More likely is that I go to work, it drags and I want to actually die there and then.
I finish, and to deaden the pain of my deadend existance I drink enough alcohol to poisen my slender frame.
Wake up, sit around doing nothing, then the next day go to work, and repeat the cycle.
Obviously noone wants that, so Im gonna need to buy a shiny bit of grey/black plastic clad gadgetry to keep me ammused.
Now, dispite working in a deadend job, I am actually quite good at saving money, Im not Richie Rich or nothing, but I do have something approaching a disposable income, and a small stack in the bank (Was planning on running off to india for a year and living in Manili under the pretense of writing my book
), so clearly I need to find something to spend some of it on too keep me happy over the most depressing time for service sector workers!
I had considered a Wii at some points, but honestly, I don't have time to play games at home these days, and I live about 2 miles from my friends (who for some reason think nothing of getting me to walk to theirs and back, but would never think of returning the favour...).
I also find myself considering a 360 or a PS3, don't get me wrong, I think they're completly cack, but they do have KoF12 coming out...
An Iphone? A bit pointless really...
An MP4 player.... gonna get dumped as soon as the Pandora arrives (although that said I've been without a dedicated player for months now, keep telling myself the Pandora ships soon, but its always gonna be like that till it arrives in my hand...), also, not exactly exciting.
Originally before I decided on a Pandora I was thinking something like a Gemei x760+ or SmartQ T5-II they seem like the happy middle road, but living in England I actually get raped if I try and import something electronic (And then I have to repay my postage so royal mail can get a slice...), added to that theres the fact that it will get absolutly NO use once I have a Pandora...
Um.... one of those T-shirts with a touch pad drum kit.... Not quite the same league perhaps, but could well keep me giggling till the Pandora arrives...
Or.... a massive Hunter S Thompson style drugs cache to keep me sedated till the Pandora arrives....
Ultimatly though I reach the same conclusion, with the possible exception of a novelty noise making Tshirt, I won't really get much use out of any of them
And so I turn to you, my fellow geeks, and ask what suggestions you may have to tide me over these long winter months?
so you need a cheap portable geek toy that won't become obsolete upon receiving a pandora...
get a cat.
