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The second mouse gets the cheese

I saw this phrase today in one of those fantastic email forwards everybody loves so much. It’s a new one to me, but I like it a lot. It fits exactly with my take on technology purchases.

Given that I’ve used computers daily since around 1982, most people who know me casually stereotype me as a gadget freak. The reality is that I own a Playstation 2, an old Palm m515, a plain-Jane cell phone and a 2.6GHz PC with a 3 year old CRT.

No portable MP3 player. No Tivo. No LCD monitors. No HDTV. No USB thumb drive. No high-end digital SLR camera. No DV camera. No PSP. Hell, I don’t even have a wireless network set up at home.

I am the second mouse.

I adore all of you adventurous first mice who pay top dollar and fight through all of the problems with things to my eventual cost and time benefit. Consider my hat tipped.

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This entry was written by JB, posted on January 6, 2006 at 8:44 pm, filed under Musings. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. Bitch | Lab
    Posted January 6, 2006 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

    HA! This is so true. I always wait a long time before I bother with a tech purchase. I have a LCD because design work and space needs just made it the smartest thing to do.

    I do not own a mobile. Have no need for one. I work at home, for far to many hours. When I get out of the house, I don’t want anyone to be able to contact me. :)

  2. JB
    Posted January 7, 2006 at 2:14 pm | Permalink

    Oh, don’t get me wrong, if my CRT croaked I would go for a decent LCD.

    I defiantly did without the cell phone until October 2004. Although I’m not real pleased with the monthly bill, it does make me more accessible to people who care about me. That’s good because my natural inclination is solitude. Ya just have to carefully control who you give the number out to ;) Paperwork, online checkout processes, and similar things get my home land line number. Family and proven friends (not first-meets) get the cell phone number and respect it.

    I can fully appreciate and understand your setup though :)

  3. Bitch | Lab
    Posted January 9, 2006 at 11:28 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, I gathered you were in some sort of design work.

    R did buy one of those disposable cells, which has turned out to be useful. And, boy, when my truck died on the way back from the airport in Orlando, I would have liked to have had one. That was a nightmare but I didn’t do it often enough to justify the expense. My son’s cell phone bill is enough for me at the moment!