MMeM, Vol.8 Issue 27 – …and so it begins

I realize this isn’t the first email I’ve received but this one really caught my eye. There were a couple of items for sale that I found a bit atrocious.

First of all, does anyone really NEED a mini-tablet? Isn’t that a SmartPhone? You are going to look like a dimwit with a huge SmartPhone or one with a tiny Tablet. It’s a lose-lose. This is a lose-lose like microwave popcorn in the workplace. It cannot end well. Either the cooker microwaves the popcorn perfectly sending the wonderful intoxicating aroma wafting throughout the workplace OR they go to the bathroom after starting the process and BURN the hell out of the popcorn creating the most vile burnt smell that will live in the break room for weeks. Actually, the latter example and even result in the entire 6 story building being evacuated because of a fire alarm being set off which happened at my place of employment a week ago. Either way, microwave popcorn should be banned in workplaces.

That is were the “mini” versions of tablets, iPods, and anything else belong as far as classifications, lose-lose. Do you know anyone still rockin’ the mini-iPod? Yeah I didn’t think so. I have one, only because I WON IT IN A SALES CONTEST AT WORK. Stupid. The only thing that ever got me was a bunch of people asking me what the hell it was. Then it gets followed up with the debate about whether or not Apple does or doesn’t still make the “mini”. Never should have is the answer. I don’t know, I’m going to wait for the tablet nano.

Then, check out this ad. This freaking store is selling babies!

So, they have “Baby Specials” and “Our best baby values”. But, they do it like Amazon sometimes where you don’t know the price of the kid until you put them in your cart. I’ve seen that a million times. I have friends who have gone through so much work to adopt kids when if they had watched the ads for Christmas apparently they can just buy them now at GREAT VALUES and PRICES! Wow, and they’re starting Black Friday this year a day early! Man, holiday shopping IS getting crazy!