View From the Bushes

As usual with these big projects, they never quite wrap up when you expect them to, plus I think I may be coming down with the flu. I guess only time will tell, but moving on... In my family essentially, half the men are snowmobilers and the other half are computer geeks. My brother-in-law (a snowmobiler) made the claim that snowmobiles are four times as cool as computers, so I thought I would take the opportunity to rebut:

1- Snowmobiles can only be used at most during half of the year (unless you're my brother but that's a subject for another blog).

2- You can use your computer naked (I don't recommend this, BTW) or in your pajama bottoms. Try this on a snowmobile and you'll quickly discover how little frostbite it takes before something starts falling off.

3- Using your computer generally only requires walking downstairs, while using a snowmobile requires driving somewhere with snow, which may not seem like a big deal if you live at the foot of the Rockies, but what if you live in Hawaii.

4- While both computers (video cards, monitors, printers) and snowmobiles (trailer, SUV, avalanche beacon) require lots of accessories, snowmobile accessories (and snowmobiles for that matter) are orders of magnitude more expensive.

5- You can take over the galaxy, storm the beach at Normandy, kill a dragon (or use a spreadsheet to keep track of your finances, sicko) on a computer but pretty much all you can do on a snowmobile is travel...on snow...

It's late, so I'll end here, but feel free to add your own.

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Ross