Certain friends would know that I am a collector, nay, proud hoarder of fine (some admittedly lame) audio and video files (also known as MP3s and movies)
So when I plugged in my 1.5TB Network Attached Storage drive into my home network, a wave of childlike euphoria came over me, as when I had my first chupa-chup.
In case it hasn't registered, I'm talking about enough space to hold 2,142 movies; 10,000 episodes of "Lost"; 300,000 songs or 2.2m photos!
MADNESSsss!
If I had that many songs (300,000) and I wanted to listen to each song once, it would take 3 years before I heard the same song twice!
If I took one 3-megapixel photo of myself every 20 minutes for the next 60 years... Guess what !? I've got enough space to HOLD IT ALL!
If I..
You get the idea...
Hooray for Moore's Law!
Speaking of Hoorays, I've come across repeated mentions now that this year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species" (24 November 1859) and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth (12 February 1809). There's even a conference in Melbourne celebrating this.
Without wading into the murky, bubbling pool of debating intelligent design vs evolution, I think Darwin would have been happy to see his ideas receive the widespread acceptance it has today.
And speaking of wide discourse, it's funny how a couple of my favourite blogs (
MR & Josh Gans) are all analysing the Singaporean phenomenon of tissue-paper-choping (admittedly, JG followed TC from MR).
My own take on it ? It's inefficient. I'll explain if you really want me to. But you don't want me to.
What next ? Someone analyses the cost-benefit of queing up for the Isetan 'Private' Sale, or perhaps calculates a profitability index of the different underpass buskers ?
Boh liau.. I've got better things to do.. LIKE COLLECT 300,000 SONGS!
*nyuk nyuk nyuk*
Update: I told an IT guy at work about the 1.5 and he's already got a 1TB filled up with movies! I'm already behind the curve!
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