Most boring... purchases... ever...

As a large portion of my consumer goods purchases occur at Fry's, it is only fitting that when I also need more domestic items, I try Fry's first. This evening I headed over to pick up one of those domestic essentials for today's professional man... an iron. Yes folks, the old Black & Decker I had before finally started to shed its teflon all over one of my shirts and it was time to bring in the cavalry.

They had a pretty big selection, from the $20 "might totally f-up your shirt because there is no temp control" job to a super deluxe cordless wonder. I probably would have gravitated to any one of them that had a digital display, but apparently LCDs are not seen as necessary in today's high-tech clothes-flattening-appliance world. Ended up splitting the difference and getting a Panasonic NI-C76SR, probably because it looked okay and had a neat retractable cord.

As an impulse, I also picked up one of those "magic touch" hair trimmers. After attempting to use it this evening I have come to two conclusions:

1) This device does not cut hair... even if you put a hair directly on the blades.
2) There is a reason you don't hear it operating in the commercial, because it sounds like you just started up a wood chipper in your bathroom.

Stay very far away.

Other observations... they finally got SLI-capable PCI Express video cards in stock. Granted, they had no motherboards that support this feature, but it's nice to see them on the shelves anyway. The Palo Alto store also reorganized the motherboard rack. I must say that it's much nicer than before, with the new ABIT Fatal1ty board prominently displayed.

Given the purchases I had in my hand, I found it necessary to get something remotely technical. Ended up getting the latest Mobile PC Mag. Oh, that reminds me, for some reason one copy of every adult magazine was spread out over the non-blacked out racks. Very strange to see "Perfect 10" next to "Modern Bride", or is it?

Total Time Spent: 15 minutes
Total Money Spent: $60.59
posted by Steve at 10:35 PM

Chronicles my trips to Fry's Electronics

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