Botheration!

[henry_the_cow]

As I walked past the building site around the new School of Informatics building, I tore the sleeve of my coat on a bit of fence.   As this is the coat I wear when visiting companies and other posh places, I'm going to have to buy a new one.  This is very irritating.   I'm not sure which annoys me most; having to spend the money or having to spend the time and effort to find a new coat that I like. 

Probably the time is the more important, as it's time that I basically don't have.  Although admittedly, if I were going to spend money, I'd rather spend it on new electrical goods.  (I've been reading about HD TVs, although it seems a little early to buy one yet because there aren't enough HD TV signals (or HD DVDs) to display).

Comments

[moz-attics.livejournal.com]

The question perhaps needs to be - how bad is the tear?

A small tear says "look, I'm an on-site guy. I deal with people who actually do things." It's a badge of office.

A huge tear - yep, new coat.

HD - another way of spelling "don't bother". I have a huge HD ready projector: standard DVD images projected on a 9' x 6' canvas are stunning, with no dots visible unless you concentrate on a particular square foot of the image - which you do not when watching a movie.

BluRay - see also Betamax. It's a better format than HD DVD, as Betamax was better than VHS, but as before, doubtless Sony won't licence anyone else to produce BluRay discs. So it is doomed. Sony is a very stupid company when it comes to mass-market technology. I will certainly be avoiding Blu-Ray in case Sony do another Betamax. Sadly I will have to buy a PS3 in order to run GTA4 - will I?

[nonesuchhouse.livejournal.com]

No, get an X-Box 360, cheaper, better console (so I'm told) that you can also get that massacre zombies at the mall game for.