You might be thinking to yourself, is this really a useful thing to blog about? Oh, just you wait! I am about to give you some of the most helpful advice ever! (Courtesy of the hullaballoo staff.)
1. A white tent. I was thinking about this today- wouldn't a white tent be the most ridiculous thing in the world? All it would take is one camping trip and it would be covered in mud and tree sap and dust and all sorts of stuff. Nope, I definately don't want to own a white tent.
2. A case of Stella Artois beer. What I mean by this is I don't want to own this NOW. You see, I'm still in school and technically not allowed to drink. But I think I would go crazy having a case of Stella Artois in the fridge and know that I'm not allowed to drink it until April 28th.
3. A deck of clear playing cards. There would be no poker faces needed- you could just look at the backside of my cards and know exactly what I had up my sleeve.
4. A Mac computer. For all you apple fanatics, pc's happen to have the best spreadsheet program around and I've never seen a Mac equivalent. Oh yes, they say, you can get a version of Microsoft Excel that you can run on a Mac. Let me ask you: If you have to buy expensive versions of great Windows programs just so that you can run them on a Mac, why don't you just use the pc!!!?????
5. A popcorn maker. I don't want to own it because it would be a waste of money because I don't like popcorn. Anyway, microwave popcorn is a million times easier to make.
6. A wedding ring. Let me ask you: what makes more sense: to buy an expensive piece of metal that sits on your finger and burns you if you ever get electrocuted and necessitates your finger getting chopped off if you break it and that has to be removed everytime you wash dishes and that might fall down the shower drain one day and that is unhygenic and that is completely useless- OR- to give your honey something useful like an good Bosch drill or a new set of pots and pans? Enough said.
7. A pair of fluffy slippers. Not only do they look stupid, but my feet are always hot.
8. A new car. Why buy a new one for loads of money when you could buy a perfectly good used car and use the money to save lives or something like that? If I ever buy a new car someone should shoot me.
9. A dark blue highlighter. The other day I was wishing I had a better colored highlighter than the silly yellow ones everyone uses. A nice bright red or a deep rich blue. Then I thought, well, that would be kind of pointless since it would obscure the very words I was trying to illuminate.
10. A bag of marshmallows. Last time I had a bag of marshmallows I melted them in the microwave to try to calculate the wavelength of a microwave based on the 'hotspots' that appeared in a dish of marshmallows. And in the process I got melted marshmallows all over my hair, my clothes, my hands, the inside of the microwave... it was a disaster.
Monday, April 9, 2007
10 things I don't want to own
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2 comments:
Boo to number four. Only nerds, accountants, and university students need spreadsheet programs. Mac's are for real life. (ok, that sounds a bit pompous) Are there any good photo editing programs on windows that actually run to speed? are there any sweet track recording programs for free? smooth interface? even a slight bit of style? just shocking heather. mind you i agree with most of the others..
Would it be possible for you to explain 10 a bit more?
I think your absolutely right about used cars. Cars depreciate in value so rapidly it is truly a waste of money to by a new ones. Personally, I think public transit is the way to go, but then again I hate driving.
There is only one real reason for buying a Mac, which is the fact that it runs a version of FreeBSD (in a sense) with a well designed graphical interface. It is sort of funny that the best thing about a Mac Apple didn't even make themselves. At any rate, this one good thing isn't enough of an incentive for me to buy one considering their higher cost.
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