Boxing Day Extravaganza

Well, as you all know, yesterday was Boxing day here in the great white north. Kinda like thanksgiving day in the US. It’s where people line up at ridiculous hours of the morning, to get the best prices on out of date crap, that stores no longer want to carry. Don’t get me wrong, there’s always that “amazing deal” somewhere, it’s just a matter of finding it.

Since I received a gift card from Best Buy for Christmas, (thanks Mom and Dad) I decided to search on the net, hoping I could find something good to purchase. You know, something that you’ve been needing for a while, but just could not afford to justify the purchase at the time. After mulling over all the deals they had at Best Buy, I found absolutely nothing I wanted to purchase. It could have been the fact that I have almost all the electronics that i could ever want, but all in all, there was nothing really good out there.

I have finally realized that Boxing Day is designed to just get rid of old product to bring in new product. Yeah, it took me a while to figure it out, but until you are an avid consumer, you don’t realize these things as they are not pertinent to you at the time. A way to inject society with a boost of mass consumer consumption. I must say, it definitely is ingenious of corporate Canada to design this day of big bucks flying out any outlet possible.

Neverending Storage

The other day I was on my usual morning read, Gizmodo, reading about all the cool new gadgets coming out for the Christmas season, till I stumbled upon some interesting news….

As we all know, storage space (hard drives) are getting extremely cheap. I mean you can now buy a 500Gb hard drive for $85. You will probably be able to get the same hard drive next year, this time for half the price. Sweet deal, you would think.

The reality is, according to Google VP, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, he is saying that if this trend continues, and the cost of storage continues to decrease, estimations that somewhere around 2020, all the world’s content will fit inside an iPod, and all the world’s music would sit in your palm as early as 2015…rendering the CD format unnecessary.

Now that you’ve put your eyeballs back in your head and given it a good shake, this is the reality of the world as we know it. Bigger is better, so they say. But what will happen when we reach that point? Will it be more about speed, then? Or will we start to move back to the simple life? I don’t know about you, but for me, a day without gadgets, is like a day without sunshine.

Change not to adapt

Well, it’s been almost a month since my last blog. I wasn’t sure really what I should and shouldn’t be writing about. I know that being the man of all gadgets is supposed to be my forte, although I really wanted my audience to be able to identify with who I really am.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a total geek at heart. But there is that other side of me….the artist, the businessman, the social bug, the philosopher. So I have renamed my blog to the Distinguished Geek, as I am not like all the other standard geeks that you meet, who only want to be left alone, and prefer to be spoken to only online.

Not only will I now bring you technology, but I will bring you art, business, philosophy, and gossip……actually, I kinda hate gossip. No, wait. I really hate gossip. Well the other 3 topics are definitely woth talking about, and whatever else comes out of my cranium at the time of inspiration. Stay tuned….