December, 3, 2001 archives

you've probably heard about this scooter thing. i can't believe how many people are belly-aching about the $3000 price tag. it's like they've never noticed how new technology is expensive before it is cheap. (unless, of course, you're the music industry, in which case you just collude to keep the price of music artificially high.)

i've started listing some stuff for sale at half.com. unfortunately, it really doesn't look like it is worth bothering to sell mass-market books there. maybe i'll cart those down to the used bookstore some day. (the biggest space-wasters i've got are some tom clancy and michael crichton hardcovers.)

i had no idea that vegetarianism was considered bourgeois in soviet russia. one soviet-era russian dictionary definition of vegetarian: "a person afraid of taking decisive steps."

it just wouldn't be the holiday season without rampant consumerism, so i've updated the code for my wishlist. now with categories! (i feel like i should apologize for the brazenness of it all. but besides making it easier for people who want to shower me with gifts, this really serves as my own stuff-to-buy-when-i-have-spare-cash list. i make no excuses for the references to myself in the third-person plural, however.)