This (section) is from MAY (2014), but today is Sunday, 1 June, and
I just went kite-boarding AGAIN, this afternoon,
and I want to RE-STRESS THIS ISSUE:!
It is ASTOUNDING, SHOCKING, AMAZING what an 'upgrade in technology'
can do for you, in many realms....
I'd recently upgraded my Mac OS "X" laptop, from one that was six
years old, and the newer technology was DEFINITELY worth the price on
many areas, though I have to admit I'm severely disappointed in the
battery-life. YES the newer technology is DEFINITELY BETTER - but
it is still not what I 'expected' (in other words my "expectations" have
NOT been exceeded...
(this picture is of my
new Cabrinha
(<<==VERY SLOW web-site) control-bar - not a trivial price, I
might add, and - yeah,
I know, I know, I know it's definitely NOT MUCH TO LOOK AT, but YES it
is BETTER!
(Newer Technology) and though complicated, it WORKS VERY VERY WELL!!!)
I've also upgraded a couple of my Kite - Board - Kites, to the newerest
designs AND control bar(see picture just above), and though the price of
Kite Board Kites has definitely skyrocketed (I remember when it was
(considerably) less than $400 to buy a kite (and bag), it is now well
over $1,200 for a similar item. I think that the proliferation of
graphics (none of which, I might say, make the kite fly any better), as
well as more complex designs (aerodynamically (which DEFINITELY make the
kite fly better)) has caused this increase in retail pricing...
the 'One-Pump' system is definitely a LOT better than the old system,
now that I've had a couple of days to try it out... - I'm still not 100%
sold on the idea of the unique-way they have to hook the lines to the
kite, nor in how a number of joints depend, mostly, on 2-3-4 stitches on
a sewing machine, but I'm told the stitches won't break...
The increased pricing, also, I'm certain has NOTHING to do with the fact
that there are a LOT MORE PEOPLE in the market, now...
ANYWAY - VERY SATISFIED! and VERY HAPPY with my 'new technology' things
- I also bought a new Fluke 289 DMM (if you don't know what that is -
I'm not going to tell you) - in January - and it's a WONDERFUL New
Technology thing, also... AND _ Fluke will bring-out, this summer,
something called "Fluke Connect" that works through your smart-phone
(with Bluetooth) and does a LOT of very fancy things...
Other New and WONDERFUL THINGS for
June, 2014:
1.) It's June here in South Eastern
Florida and the weather is getting WARMER
2.) because of the above 'fact of
life' - we've started to use the air-conditioner to cool-off the
house so we can fall asleep
3.) as of Today, the Hurricane
Season is 'official'
4.) it's RAINING right now - and it
RAINED when I went kiteboarding - but - well - RAIN is a 'fact of
life' here!
5.) and we have bunny-rabbits all
over our yard
6.) and we went to visit Mr. "Mom
Back" this morning - he's a local cat that lives in one of the '(un)
gated (golf) communities' nearby and he's a pretty nice cat -
actually he's not really a 'cat' - per-se, he's more of a
'cat-pet-absorber' - he'll absorb as many cat pets as you want to
give him, I don't know where he puts them all but he'll purr and
accept cat pets much longer than we usually have...
MORE to come, a little later on in
the month - VERY busy these days!
A note, though: books by "Lee
Child" (creator of the "Jack Reacher" series (of which there
is / was a recent movie of the name "Jack Reacher" (Starring Tom
Cruise and Rosamund Pike)... ANYWAY Lee Child has written a
number of books featuring this character and some of them are VERY
GOOD! - You might want to check-them-out at your local library
and/or order them on-line...
Another author note: "P.T.
Deutermann" has written a whole bunch of books and I've just
finished four of them that have to do with the US Navy, and things
like drugs and foreign / renegade submarines, and Annapolis
and other things in which, in each book he takes a case of "It may
look simple, but it's COMPLICATED", and there's always a 'what is
the RIGHT decision to make' and RIGHT in who's eyes, the Navy's, the
Public, the Law (and who's law, the Navy's law or the public's
law)...
- These books bring to light a LOT
of the ambiguous things that people in that august body have to deal
with but I'm sure that corporate types, politicians, and others face
similar dilemmas... VERY GOOD Books: "Scorpion in
the Sea", "Dark Side", "The Edge of Honor", etc
Mr. Panda-Bear's web-page:
http://www.vikingasia.org/BeachWeb/PandaBear/PB.html
