stick a fork in me
It's official... my wife and I have a new baby.
We're not talking spectacular here, but from a former TV salesman's perspective, it's a beast. I finally convinced the wife (she's always the banker in "Monopoly") to let me upgrade our 27" panel-decorated tube, where even the labels on the back were written in Cuneiform, and while it was whurring the room was "electric" by the enormous amount of static discharge (it did purify the air) emitted from the electronics. When Braun first envisioned the CRT, this was one of the mutant by-products. If it ever exploded, it would create a singularity and we would all be sucked in.
Needless to say, I was justified in getting a new TV.
It's a beauty. It gets no less than 4 stars in any online criticism. The only downside is that it has depth, but God Bless Panasonic for tapering it perfectly for a corner setting. It's angle viewing is (from experience) better than any Sony big screen out there, short of a plasma or LCD. 2-tuner split screen, widescreen, high-definition 47" diagonal (followed by a hefty Tim Taylor grunt-oh, oh, oh...).
It's a CRT projection--the new kind--so it'll last 15 years, whereas plasma's still up in the air (we saw some last a month before they'd fry), and LCD is too durn expensive. So, rather than wait for the OLEDs to come out, we decided to see what strings were left for the pullin' at good old Circuit City, and we found a freakin' suspension bridge.
God Bless you Dan, floor sales manager. We walked away with a TV that was worth $1500 by itself, and we got it with a 2-year protection plan (the most valuable thing is that it replaces the $200 remote... but the in-home servicing is nice), a new DVD player, and a couple of other components for a little over $1200. Beats the $5,000 for the Plasma that I wanted, that's for sure. God Bless you, Dan.
Final result: Nah-nah nah-nah boo-boo! I have a Big-Screen!
Okay okay okay, I get it. I'm just very happy for the new Baby, that's all. Hey, it would be worse if I took it for granted, right? I'm not gloating. I'm justified.
I don't want to hear anymore about it. So there.
Ahem.
dfb
(oh, sure, like you wouldn't get one if you could)
We're not talking spectacular here, but from a former TV salesman's perspective, it's a beast. I finally convinced the wife (she's always the banker in "Monopoly") to let me upgrade our 27" panel-decorated tube, where even the labels on the back were written in Cuneiform, and while it was whurring the room was "electric" by the enormous amount of static discharge (it did purify the air) emitted from the electronics. When Braun first envisioned the CRT, this was one of the mutant by-products. If it ever exploded, it would create a singularity and we would all be sucked in.
Needless to say, I was justified in getting a new TV.
It's a beauty. It gets no less than 4 stars in any online criticism. The only downside is that it has depth, but God Bless Panasonic for tapering it perfectly for a corner setting. It's angle viewing is (from experience) better than any Sony big screen out there, short of a plasma or LCD. 2-tuner split screen, widescreen, high-definition 47" diagonal (followed by a hefty Tim Taylor grunt-oh, oh, oh...).
It's a CRT projection--the new kind--so it'll last 15 years, whereas plasma's still up in the air (we saw some last a month before they'd fry), and LCD is too durn expensive. So, rather than wait for the OLEDs to come out, we decided to see what strings were left for the pullin' at good old Circuit City, and we found a freakin' suspension bridge.
God Bless you Dan, floor sales manager. We walked away with a TV that was worth $1500 by itself, and we got it with a 2-year protection plan (the most valuable thing is that it replaces the $200 remote... but the in-home servicing is nice), a new DVD player, and a couple of other components for a little over $1200. Beats the $5,000 for the Plasma that I wanted, that's for sure. God Bless you, Dan.
Final result: Nah-nah nah-nah boo-boo! I have a Big-Screen!
Okay okay okay, I get it. I'm just very happy for the new Baby, that's all. Hey, it would be worse if I took it for granted, right? I'm not gloating. I'm justified.
I don't want to hear anymore about it. So there.
Ahem.
dfb
(oh, sure, like you wouldn't get one if you could)
posted by dfb on Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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