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08/06/2005: "LEDlight"
When I was a young man
I lived in a small room
in a university college.
I was in my element!
I was FREE!
I was FINALLY able to SIN!
And Sin I did -
and I did it often
and I did it well.
The Sin of Envy
was particularly strong -
the rich kids had beautiful hi-fi equipment
in 3x3 metre brick rooms...
SO I spent a summer
toiling in a mine,
saving
for my very own hi-fi system.
However,
I bought in haste
and, much more importantly,
in the absence of advice.
The fucking thing broke
bit by bit
and STILL fucking dogs me.
I learned an invaluable lesson.
Nonetheless,
initially,
'twas a thing of beauty.
I would play Steely Dan's Greatest Hits and Hurricane and Fountainbleu and Cortez the Killer and Ladies of the Road and Bat Chain Puller and Lightnin' Hopkins and Nina Simone
as loud as I dared
and lie in the dark
watching the LEDs pump from green to red -
a light show just for me.
Tonight
I recline
in The Big Red Chair
in the dark
beneath my private umbrella
and admire the LEDs of
the smoke detector
the C drive
the D drive
the monitor
the mouse (that's red, 'Tish)
the modem
the tv
the video
the surge protector
the transformer
and the comforting blue light
which reads AM 576.
And all this -
not in Joni's blue blue tv screen light
of an aged, rain-damaged B&W tv with a sloping picture
but the gentle glow
of my geriatric laptop.
Ah, nostalgia...
lerevdr on Sat
06-Aug-2005 @
02:57 e.s.t [permalink]
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On Saturday, August 6th, at 03:40 e.s.t, Chris Tann said:
My very first stereo was the boom-box sort - I begged and pleaded my parents to get me one for my birthday (up to that point, I think all we had was a record player), so for my 17th birthday I think, they took me out to buy one. There was a pretty big choice, but of course I was immediately drawn to the one - with _dual_ led level meters. Dual!!! I thought it was the coolest thing on the planet! That was a good buy though, lasted me six years, and then was handed on to my Nephews.
I bought an mp3-player car stereo a few years back. The thing has so many lights, and completely incomprehensible controls, and plays about one mp3 disk in 3. Interestingly enough, it is the same brand as my first one (AIWA). Sometimes simple is better though...
I look forward to the day when the pace of technology slows down a little - when they start to have a half life longer than 18 months, and when people can start passing things onto their Grandchildren (and not get looked at in a strange way).
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