Saturday, January 11, 2003
W?BIC!
Posted by Brad Adrian in "THOUGHT" @ 07:55 PM
That's a new motto of mine that I want to put on a T-shirt someday: W?BIC! ("Why? Because I Can!"). I'm sitting here playing with -- er using -- my Pocket PC Phone Edition and carefully explaining to my wife the fantastic 128MB memory upgrade that was just completed by Pocket PC Techs. "See," I explain while salivating, "I can load ALL of my apps into internal memory, along with all of my eBooks, Audible books and MP3s, and still have room on my SD card for a movie!" When she dares to ask me why I could possibly want or need to carry that much "stuff" on my Pocket PC, I reply with the only phrase that comes close to explaining this deeply seated need:
"Why? Because I can!"
Over the years, I guess I've been known to invoke the "W?BIC!" defense for quite a few of my Pocket PC exploits. To me, though, there need be no further justification for doing things like:
Surfing the Web via WLAN and cable modem on a 240X320 screen, even though a perfectly functional PC sits three feet away
Spending seven hours converting a two-hour movie just so I can watch it on my Pocket PC
Loading 253 MP3s onto a CF card for a 45-minute drive across town
Installing a total of 73 different applications, even though on any given day I may only need five of them
Arguing with my voice dialer for several minutes rather than simply dial using the keypad
Downloading 197 e-mails wirelessly at 9.6kps rather than use a landline 56k modem
Hopefully, I'm not the only person here who has done outlandish stuff in the name of W?BIC! Anybody else out there had to utter those words in their own defense?
"Why? Because I can!"
Over the years, I guess I've been known to invoke the "W?BIC!" defense for quite a few of my Pocket PC exploits. To me, though, there need be no further justification for doing things like:
Surfing the Web via WLAN and cable modem on a 240X320 screen, even though a perfectly functional PC sits three feet away
Spending seven hours converting a two-hour movie just so I can watch it on my Pocket PC
Loading 253 MP3s onto a CF card for a 45-minute drive across town
Installing a total of 73 different applications, even though on any given day I may only need five of them
Arguing with my voice dialer for several minutes rather than simply dial using the keypad
Downloading 197 e-mails wirelessly at 9.6kps rather than use a landline 56k modem
Hopefully, I'm not the only person here who has done outlandish stuff in the name of W?BIC! Anybody else out there had to utter those words in their own defense?
