The northlondonhippy

Archive for March 1st, 2006

Hey ho hippyfans!

Who’s been miss­ing me? All of you I expect. Well the merry-go-round that is my glit­ter­ing media career keeps me spin­ning quickly and I’m doing my best just to hang on!

Gosh that sounds dra­matic and inter­est­ing; if only it were true.

I’ve picked up some more work this week, hot on the heels of last week’s bonanza. I’m back tomor­row for 4 nights and I’m not complaining.

Any­thing that brings dosh to this hippy is a good thing indeed, though its not like I have any­thing excit­ing to spend it on at the moment. Apple kind of let me down.

They had a prod­uct launch yes­ter­day and between the hype and spec­u­la­tion, I was really expect­ing some­thing so cool that I would just have to buy one. I had my Visa card all ready to spend, spend, spend and they didn’t have any­thing wor­thy of my drool.

Over­priced leather iPod cases that com­pletely lack any use­ful functionality.

Next was a glo­ri­fied speaker dock for an iPod, lack­ing Air­Tunes func­tion­al­ity but with a hefty price tag. I’m sure they sound good, but so what?

And finally, a revamped, Intel’d up, Mac mini. OK, I’ll admit these look quite tasty, but by the time I kit­ted up one to be worth hav­ing as a stand-alone media-center, you’re talk­ing over 1600–1700 pounds!

Think I’m kid­ding, think again!

The high model, with the Core Duo proces­sor and with the max’d extra RAM and big­ger hard drive spec’d out at around £970. Add to that a key­board and mouse (£70), exter­nal hardrive (est £250), tv cap­ture don­gle to con­nect to my SKY+ (est £200), a free­view tuner with PVR soft­ware (£100), extra cables (est £100) and you’re already up to £1700.

More than I would want to spend, unless I was a lot richer and had a fancy-pancy LCD tv with a DVI input!

Ut oh, we’re approach­ing tech-geek cor­ner territory!

I smoke dope, lots of it!

There, that’s better!

I’m groov­ing to some Led Zep­pelin right now; Kashmir!

See, I’m cool, I’m cool. Dammit! Fuckers!

Oh Apple, you let me down this time. Where’s the new OS X tablet? Where’s the touch­screen video iPod? Where’s all the cool shit?

It’s Apple’s thir­ti­eth anniver­sary on the first of April and more prod­uct announce­ments are expected. Let the fresh spec­u­la­tion begin!

The other thing I’ve been check­ing out is Roor Glass­ware.

They make some amaz­ing hand­made pipes, bongs and accessories.

I’ve been think­ing about get­ting THIS ONE, the “Lit­tle Sista Ice-master Cup 5.0 — 3 Piece” as I really like it’s style and func­tion­al­ity. Yes, it’s expen­sive, but any­thing of real qual­ity often is. They’re stur­dily built and made to last.

I also like the choice of ACCESSORIES like the dif­fusers and optional BOWLS, which means you can keep find­ing cool new things to get for it.

Con­sumer goods and drugs are the only things in this world that bring any­one any joy, so the com­bi­na­tion of the two is just out of this world, fuck­ing fantastic!

EDIT, my favourite web­site for all things drug related and legal, should really do a deal with me. I already send a lot of busi­ness their way, per­son­ally and here with my endorsements.

They should become my exclu­sive spon­sor! I’d let them adver­tise on my site in return for, oh I don’t know, free drugs, free good­ies to review, per­haps cash, I don’t know.

I’m open to offers though. This hippy is for sale or rent!

So if you work for Everyonedoesit.com or know some­one who does, tell them to con­tact the hippy for an adver­tis­ing oppor­tu­nity too good to miss!