2005 June 03

Based on LCD Television Dreams, we've received tons of feedback. I'm still wanting to get some kind of HDTV, having pushed back aquisition largely due to cost, space, and options. I always thought that LCD was better than Plasma, but then DLP entered the picture (pun intended). I walk through that aisle at Best Buy and think about how many reward points I could rack up. But you can't stop at the screen. No, you have to buy the right cables… and the right speakers… and the right LCD this… and the right LCD that. Russell Coover (one of my all-time favorite Gnomies) is hacking it, like most of us:

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Still kicking, Webmonkey posts a rather insightful and unique juxtaposition between the dot-com days and every kid's favorite chocolatier – just in time for the Burton Wonka remake:

Willy Wonka could form the soundtrack to any retelling of the early dot-com days with telling lyrics, “who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream/separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream” and “the world tastes good 'cause the candy man thinks it should.” In the opening scene, children run from school into the candy store and the Pied Piper candy store man serenades the kids as they run rampage, eating candy by the pound.

And if you turn down the volume and (instead) play Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, it synchronizes almost perfectly. Having experienced the dot-com bubble from the outside, it played more like Little Shop of Horrors. Me, Seymour Krelborn (duh). My computer, Audrey II. The Small Business Center guy who didn't know what I was talking about at the very beginning, Mr. Mushnik. It all worked out in the end, though. I finally have my Audrey in Ponzi, especially when she dyes her hair blonde (not this week). That, and my computer just ate Wicket.

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