What is it about pink gadgets?

I got a link from my boyfriend about the possibility of a Kindle 2.0.  Of all the stuff that was listed as features the only one that caught my attention was the mockup of a pink Kindle.

Something about the Kindle going pink sent the eReader from my “that’s cool but kind of expensive” category.. into the “Wow I want one!” category.  It wasn’t a logical reaction by any means, but a more emotional reaction to seeing the pink gadgets.

I can’t be the only one who has this type of reaction.  I googled “Pink electronics” and found that at least Target has a whole online category of just pink stuff.  It had everything from cameras, laptops, and noise cancelling headphones to iPod speakers and alarm clocks.

So is it as simple as saying that if a gadget is pink its now “acceptable” and non-nerdy enough to be ok for girls to want?  Or is there something else at work here?

After some careful consideration I’m not really any closer to figuring it out.  But I have stopped buying paperbacks for the immediate future in the hopes of having saved up in case they do officially annouce a pink Kindle!

Fan Faire ‘08

The SOE Fan Faire might be the one weekend where it is literally impossible to separate work from non-work life.

For three days it was an inundation of EQII, SOE’s new products and people everywhere who all seemed to want to hug me. And I have to admit it was a lot of fun. I get to interact with EQII players a fair bit on forums, reading their feedback and on the Test Server but it is nothing like being there in person. Seeing people have a visceral and emotional reaction to things that the team is saying was quite literally inspiring even when they’re booing.

Even though I lost $80 or so on the slot machines and felt pretty damn awful most of the trip from the smoke in the hotel I came home reinvigorated to jump back into work and to play EQII with a passion!

Ouch!

I started playing Guitar Hero 3 this weekend.  I’m playing on hard and I got to what I think was the last section of songs that has me playing for my soul.  I think I would have played for a lot longer but my fingers just started hurting after a while fom slamming down on the controller.

I think I was having fun while playing the console game.  But I found my mind straying continously to what the people making the game had done.  While my fingers and wrist were starting to ache I wondered how many testers went home with sore wrists every day?  What did they do to compensate for that?

And what kind of bugs does a tester find in a game like Guitar Hero 3?  Can a song be too slow or two fast?  Can a song be missing star power?  Or maybe they spent most of their time working on the co-op game play.  It seems like whn you introduce two people you more than double the amount of things that can go wrong compared to a single person.

Tonight I’m glued to the olympics.  The gymnasts are amazing.  I can’t even do a cartwheel, but these athletes are spinning all over the place.  And they are making me feel pretty pathetic for my litle guitar hero injury.  They have some real reasons to be saying Ouch!

Starmind

I just finished the trilogy “Stardance” by Spider and Jeanne Robinson that someone at work lent me.

When I finish a book or series of books I usually have one of two reactions “that was fun” or “huh, I’m not sure I get it yet” and I’m definitely in the second category with this one.

Its been a while since I’ve read anything so non-christian centric or completely centered in the fantasy realm that I feel like the neurons my brain are using now are so rusty they almost hurt.   Sci-Fi was a favorite of mine when I was younger, but now reading about things that change the nature of what it means to be human and doesn’t involve a vampire or werewolf seems foreign.

Overall I think I liked it, and I’ve come to realize I probably need to broaden out my reading material a little.. but first I just have this one more vampire novel I really want to read

My First Blog Post about Me

I’ve written Blog posts for work before.  But never one just about me.

My basic question is what do I do with a blog?  I can’t talk about work much since I don’t want to get fired for talking about stuff that’s still in development.  Nor do I want to sit around and gripe about random personality conflicts that happen at the office… does anyone actually care about those except me.. even remotely??

So that leaves me with writting about what I’m thinking about after work and what I’m doing.  Tonight was a great example of a totally average and unexciting night.  Around 6:30 I left work and drove thru Wendy’s to get dinner.  There were no baked potatoes which made me seriously consider bailing on the whole transaction but that’s a lot work, so I ate the salty fries.  I’ve stopped ordering hambergers and steaks unless it seems really socially bad to stand out… like going for “steaks” with friends and then asking for the grilled chicken and a side salad.   I know that eatting beef is harder on the environment than eatting chicken is so in general I’m enjoying different kinds of chicken.

So after a slightly disappointing meal that i scarf down I start logging into World of Warcraft.  I play once a week we some of my RL friends that I’m separated from as we all live in different parts of the country now.  In terms of play enjoyment this is the best part of the week.  Even if we die horribly and leave frustrated and confused… I know that i got to spend time with 4 people that I wouldn’t be talking with at all were it not for the MMO itself.

I got reminded today that my grasp of games in general is getting a bit old.  SuperMario 3 is no longer the “cool” game to have and my XBoX360 is being woefully underused.  So I was thinking about making a concerted effeort to try out what’s happen on those consoles.

Its a bit too late tonight but I have a whole weekend in front of me to find out if I can get hooked on to a console game for a bit!