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technogeek wife

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

We were in a Yodabashi camera store today. I'd learned that I could still buy Ilford film at that store (which turned out to be true, but neither of my beloved FP4 or HP5 were available).

We came across one of the new Acer "Aspire One" laptops, which are part of the modern move to very small laptops. It's got an 8.9" monitor (very glossy, unfortunately) and the usual complement of USB ports etc. Amazingly, the keyboard was very usable, certainly much better than the one that comes with the Eee PC (the first microlaptop to kick off the recent move to small-and-cheap devices).

As I was making impressed sounds, Mari suddenly said, "why don't you buy one?"

"What? I've got a laptop."

"But you leave it behind when we travel because it's too heavy."

"Yes, I can't carry that thing and the boy and the backpacks etc."

"So let's buy this one."

I was impressed. How many guys have to talk their wife out of an electronics purchase?

(We've agreed to look at them while in Canada in a couple of weeks).