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The price of RAM

I was going through some paper work when I saw this old receipt:

IF you can’t read it clearly, it shows I bought two sticks of 8 Meg 60 ns RAM for $87.09 each in 1996.

An 8 Meg stick of RAM for 87.09. That’s $10.89 per Meg of RAM in 1996.

Today, according to www.pricewatch.com, a stick of 256 Meg of PC133 RAM costs $42. That’s $0.16 per Meg of RAM in 2001.

The cost of RAM in 2001 is 1.5% of the cost in 1996.

If we do the math and extrapolate the RAM cost per Meg out 5 more years, we see that RAM will cost $0.0025 per Meg.

That means that a Gigabyte of RAM should cost $2.50 in 2006.

I figure that people are willing to spend about $50 on RAM for their computer. R33t hardware dewds (like me) willspend much more, but the average person will spend $50.

In 2006, $50 should buy you 20 Gigs of RAM. It boggles the mind…

Mighty Wings = nasty junk

I was running some errands at lunch today and stopped by a McDonalds to grab a quick bite. I usually get the chicken sandwich, but today I tried something different.

I have heard the ads for the new Mighty Wings at McDonalds. I love good, hot Buffalo wings, so I was intrigued. I ordered a ten pack and hoped for the best.

I got back to my desk and opened the little box of wings. I was suprised to see no sauce on the wings. “How could they be spicy without sauce?”, I thought. I took a long drag on my orange soda and chose a wing.

It was nasty. It was worse than nasty, it was horrid. They just took raw wings and fried them. There was no flavor. The outside was dry and crispy and the inside was full of fryer oil. The taste was what you might expect if you fried chicken in french fry oil. On top of the lousy taste, there we no drumsticks. As any Buffalo wing afficinado knows, the drumsticks are much better than the two bone forewing section.

So, stay away from McDonald’s Mighty Wings. In fact, stay way in general, Carl’s Jr. is much better.

Another kooky email

I received this today:

From: “Amar Nazir” [amarnazir@hotmail.com]
To: [cruft@pusateri.org]
Date: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:32 AM

Dear sir/madam

i have visited your site and have found it very interesting. The reason why i have become interested into your company is because i want to or need to know more about your products. I myself am a vegetarian and do not drink alcohol. I was looking into differnt products similar to yours which were not suitable for vegetarias. I was hoping you would send me information on all your products, which are suitable for vegetarians and are also alcohol free, i hope to hear from you soon Thankyou

Amar

PS I love soft drinks

Someone please explain to me what product I am selling?

This has got to be some weird email address spider that is looking for replies to confirm active addresses.

A lunchtime spotting

I was returning from a fabulous lunch at Subway yesterday with two of my co-workers. We were chatting about some subject as we usually do. Up ahead of us was a young woman in a short yellow dress, getting into a car.

Being men, we were watching her. She opened the rear passenger door and bent over to pick up something inside the car. The short dress slid up and revealed that she was wearing no underwear. We saw everything. My co-worker stopped talking for a second and after a moment said, “She’s not wearing underwear.” I summoned my power of concentration and uttered, “Yes.”

We slowed passed and all conversation ceased for a bit while our minds cleared from the nudity induced haze.

What is is about Dr. Pepper?

I received the following email this weekend:

From: [Arlett60@aol.com]
To: [cruft@pusateri.org]
Subject: REQUEST FOR INFO
Date: Saturday, March 24, 2001 10:57 PM

I KNOW A PERSON THAT IS INTERESTED IN SUMITING A JINGLE ABOUT THE DR PEPPER SODAS THAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR YOUR ADVERTIZIND PROGROM. HER CONCERN IS HOW AND WHO CAN SHE SUMIT HER JINGLE TOO. CAN YOU DIRECT ME.

THANK YOU

ARLETT MALVO

Now am I missing something? Where does my small and stale page about Dr. Pepper imposters lead anyone to think I’m able to approve advertising for Dr. Pepper? What’s with the ALL CAPS? What’s with the lack of spelling or punctuation?

If I were a Dr. Pepper advertising exec, I doubt that this email woudl drive me to action. What are people thinking out there? I am tempted to write Arlett60@aol.com back and ask, but I fear the response.