distractionsfromthedailyworld
I consider it my duty as an expert on terrorism to not talk about it, since I'm sure all of you get your real inside news from some bigwig news corporation anyway, whom are so much more likely to be more knowledgable than me.
Heh.
No really, I really don't want to talk about it because it just is upsetting, and there's no point drawing attention to things that already give the culprits more recognition, and give the hardliners even more reason to go off and send more people to die for a whole lotta bull.
My days of doomsaying are over. No one believed me when I warned a year in advance something like 9/11 could, and would happen... they were too self-absorbed in the greatness of the United States... and when it did happen they all pointed fingers.
Screw that.
London is my capital, mind you. I love both my countries (UK and Canada) with a hell of a lot of my heart. But there's no point talking about it now.
I even have several long, long posts already written up to speak my mind about all of this, but I decided against posting them.
So instead I bring you a top 5 wishlist of cool gadgets and things that I want, but cannot afford myself... =D
There's a thing about North America, it's that we're smack in the middle of the tech world. Europe is behind us in terms of cool little gadgets, but they definately have the coolest designers. Over the Pacific, they've got a ton of awesome gadgets... but very conformist designers.
We've got an even mixture of the two.
Some would say that's a good thing. Me, I'd rather have one or the other.
Some of these toys, by the way, were found over at Gizmodo... a pretty sweet blog about gadgets and gizmos... as if you couldn't guess already.
1. Minolta Maxxum 7D
Well yeah. I like my Minoltas. It's a hot camera. I'm not complaining about my A200, but the 7D is HOT. Nuff' said.
2. LCD RFID Mirror
When I get my comic rolling when I'm in Ottawa, I want to be able to advertise it in my apartment window. Or maybe a window at school. Or better yet, every bloody window on the Humanities residence floor. Or just every window in Residence. Yeah. Screw those idiots who run around with stickers advertising their crappy sites on bannisters and bathrooms. I'd advertise with style. (Plus my content wouldn't suck, which is the usual bane of Engineering majors' webpages, heh)
3. Fruit Filled Walls
This is what I mean when I say the Europeans have a leg up on us when it comes to design. I mean over here the best we can do is a fruitbowl with a painting of a fruitbowl behind it. And the best we can do for wall decorations, albeit awesome, is homepainted stuff, because the stuff our designers make is just fucking ugly and super-commercial. I would eat fruit if I had a wall like that.
Yes, yes I would. This one's pretty, so I'll put up the picture.
4. Wacom Cintiq 21UX
My more... 'practical' dreamgadget. Cause I get pissy when I can't see what I'm drawing on my tablet sometimes... which is... whenever I'm using my tablet.
So a lot.
5. X-47B UAV
It was really a toss-up between this cool UFO, which I saw at Gizmodo... a fighter jet... which apparently you can buy on Ebay... as the sale maybe a year or so ago of the Mig-21 demonstrate... or the X-47B Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS)... and the prospect of remotely putting target painters on my enemies' foreheads kind of appeals to me. But even moreso, I'm just thinking of the heads it'll turn at the corresponding convention/event. Sure, everyone at an airshow will have seen a Superflanker or equivalent flouting its stuff with its vector-thrust nozzles making your head spin just watching it... but...
Who in the world would expect this thing at a RC Aero convention?