Things that are obsolete
So tomorrow I leave for the big trip. I'm just about packed. Spend most of today doing errands, sitting in traffic, iteratively packing (unpacking) and repacking.
Two observations on today.
What the hell is Radio Shack for? Everytime I've been to that place in the past year or so I've found that the staff is woefully uninformed, stock is shoddy, and they almost always kind of have what I need, but then don't. I was looking for two things: multipacks of mini DV tapes for our digitial video camera, they had one packs and they were pretty spendy. The second thing I needed that they didn't have was a cheap digital watch with an alarm. This also coincides with things that might be obsolete. How many of you have watches that you wear/use on a daily basis? I use my cell phone to tell me what time it is (and as an alarm). Since I'm going to a place where my phone won't work I needed a back up plan.
So Radio Shack did not have a cheap digital watch plus alarm. They did have a watch mind you, but it had a talking feature. That's right no alarm, but you could record your voice on it and have it talk to you. I mean seriously, is this a feature that the product team was like: I know - a talking watch...it's like the watch of the future!
Anyway, I found a cheap one over at a drug store and it looks like crap but does the job. The DV tapes I found at a electronics type of store where the 5 bored employees were playing video golf on a widescreen TV. I wonder what things I'll see in Kyrgyzstan that will remind me how ridiculous this entire expreience has been.
I'm off tomorrow, will try and post from literally the other side of the world (well Northern part that is) if I can.
Two observations on today.
What the hell is Radio Shack for? Everytime I've been to that place in the past year or so I've found that the staff is woefully uninformed, stock is shoddy, and they almost always kind of have what I need, but then don't. I was looking for two things: multipacks of mini DV tapes for our digitial video camera, they had one packs and they were pretty spendy. The second thing I needed that they didn't have was a cheap digital watch with an alarm. This also coincides with things that might be obsolete. How many of you have watches that you wear/use on a daily basis? I use my cell phone to tell me what time it is (and as an alarm). Since I'm going to a place where my phone won't work I needed a back up plan.
So Radio Shack did not have a cheap digital watch plus alarm. They did have a watch mind you, but it had a talking feature. That's right no alarm, but you could record your voice on it and have it talk to you. I mean seriously, is this a feature that the product team was like: I know - a talking watch...it's like the watch of the future!
Anyway, I found a cheap one over at a drug store and it looks like crap but does the job. The DV tapes I found at a electronics type of store where the 5 bored employees were playing video golf on a widescreen TV. I wonder what things I'll see in Kyrgyzstan that will remind me how ridiculous this entire expreience has been.
I'm off tomorrow, will try and post from literally the other side of the world (well Northern part that is) if I can.
posted by Emma Rose @ 18:56
3 Comments:
At 8:08 PM,
Heather said…
You know, darlin, that watch might be the very thing that Stan would have. You know, newish knock-offs but also vintage, Soviet-era stuff. You should look for a nifty replacement watch once you get there.
At 9:44 PM,
Lazy said…
Hey, after two weeks in gazpachoville (go back to russia!) you'll be happy to see that beacon of freedom known as radio shack.
But you take care of yourself over there! Dasvedanya (sp?) Emjaro!
At 5:19 AM,
Helen said…
digital watch? I love my watch.
Anyways, I only have one watch, as opposed to two cellphones (plus one wireless VOIP phone that I carry around at work) and one Palmpilot (two if you count my Treo, which is also a phone). My watch never leaves my wrist, which is more than I can say for my other various time devices (phones, computers, palmpilots).
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