Hah.

I don’t regret it for a second, and I still love it, but I find myself looking at the new LCOS displays and thinking “oooooh”. (Especially the JVC Pro 70″ 1080p)

When did TVs becomes like computers, something we needed to upgrade every 2 years?

At least I can console myself with the though that the 50″ LCD would make a fine bedroom set…

“Hey, look – this is all wrong. When Twoflower said they’d got better kind of magic in the empire I thought- I thought…”
The imp looked at him expectantly. Rincewind cursed to himself. “Well, if you must know, I thought he didn’t mean magic. Not as such.”

“What else is there, then?”

Rincewind began to feel really wretched. “I don’t know,” he said. “A better way of doing things, I suppose. Something with a bit of sense in it. Harnessing – harnessing the lightning, or something.

The imp gave him a kind but pitying look. “Lightning is the spears hurled by the thunder giants when they fight,” it said gently. “Established meteorological fact. You can’t harness it.”

“I know,” said Rincewind miserably. “That’s the flaw in the argument, of course.”

The imp nodded, and disappeared into the depths of the iconograph. A few moments later Rincewind smelled bacon frying. He waited until his stomach couldn’t stand the strain any more, and rapped on the box. The imp reappeared.
“I’ve been thinking about what you said,” it said even before Rincewind could open his mouth. “And even if you could get a harness on it, how could you get it to pull a cart?”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“Lightning. It just goes up and down. You’d want it to go along, not up and down. Anyway, it’d probably burn through the harness.”

“I don’t care about the lightning! How can I think on an empty stomach?”

“Eat something, then. That’s logic.”