New Tech In My Life

My friends in America had an unspoken competition to see who could buy the biggest television. Someone bought a 52" so the next guy got a 60", etc. I couldn't justify the expense or the space in my apartment to take part personally but it was pretty sweet to stand by and reap the rewards.

I just stayed a couple of days with a friend, Tony, and his is the biggest I've ever seen. He's got a hi-quality video projector mounted on the ceiling and the 84" screen sits barely an inch off the opposite wall. If my arithmetic is good, a 4:3 aspect 84" screen gives over 3300 square inches of image. Now that's what I call home cinema! The 21" set at the bottom of the linked photo looks every inch the 1:16 scale model of its new big brother. Oh, how I wish I'd picked up Supervixens earlier in the week...

His computer set-up was fun to play with too: a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard. I was sat on the sofa using the projector screen as a monitor and a lower case letter in the body of one of these articles was as big as my thumb. And two days on broadband was like regaining the use of a limb. Tony, if you're reading, you're my God For The Week. (Sorry once more for setting fire to the plant pot on your balcony with my cigarette butt. Can we call it a ritual sacrifice?)