Am in Geek Heaven. I recently purchased a
wireless remote pond thermometer. These things are hard to come by (ok, so they’re a niche item...) and so when I found one, I couldn’t stop myself and I hit that ‘buy’ button like my life depended on it. Didn’t notice that the rest of the website was devoted to drug paraphernalia. Turns out, the guy sells all sorts of precision balances (you can guess why), and evidently thermometers and balances go hand in hand. You’d have thought I’d have been tipped off by the name of the website: www.marijuana.it (actually, it was linked to from the equally tell-tale site www.mariuana.co.uk). So it was with some relief that I actually received the thing. And now I can tell at a glance, and from the warmth of my living room, just how cold the fish are... I should add that I think that the canvas RIZLA+ bag is rather attractive...
More upmarket, but equally nerdy, is the watch that Silvia has bought me for Xmas. Titanium, and very thin. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it. Here’s what it looks like:
Yes:
it only has one hand. How cool is that
? I’ve not actually opened the box in which it arrived - I’ve decided to wait to open it in front of my family, so that they can gaze upon it in collective wonder... more likely, though, they’ll utter a collective ‘wtf?’
So Xmas is upon us. The tree’s up, the lights are on, the turkey’s booked (I so
hate turkey, but hey... it
is
Christmas), and the presents are... oh. I guess I’d best go and buy some...
And in case I don’t actually do anything of bloggable interest between now and then.
HAPPY XMAS!
