Michael,
Katie had her 22nd birthday yesterday, and while we (Mrs Rakkity, Patrick & fiancee Georgia) were celebrating at Outback restaurant I asked KT if she had seen the USA Today article about women’s preferences for diamonds or tech toys. According to the article, today’s women would prefer a digital toy to a diamond necklace. (When I saw that article, I thought about Mrs Rakkity and guessed that she’d prefer a low-tech washing machine or a lawnmower to an iPod or diamonds.) Anyway, I asked the birthday girl what sort of woman she was–a techie or a diamond lover. She responded emphatically, “High tech!”
So what had we planned to give her, and what did we give her? A digital camera, of course. She was estatic. But having thought ahead back in Beijing way before the tech/diamond article appeared, I got KT a jade bracelet. And she liked that too, but not quite as much asthe camera.
–rakkity
(picture coming tonight)
rakkity,
Give a girl a camera and you get a pretty sunset, give her a video cam and you might get this .
Michael
el Kib
What about the one right over their heads we saw ever so briefly … ? Damn that was close!
There’s also a “really cool lightning video” that got suggested (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0edF7MXsBE8), complete with a soundtrack that implie s aclimax that never comes (Or could come), but here’s a complete change of subject (possibly fake) that was TOO close: http://youtube.com/watch?v=n23_IsU4Uic
hmmmm
Now you offer us some food for thought here. A diamond necklace is different then a diamond ring or say some good size studs. A necklace might be a solitary diamond in which case it would have to be a fairly perfect diamond to shine. Or it could be one of those hearts like Kitty Carlisle would wear on To Tell the Truth. And you have to be a necklace person which not everyone is. So unless we’re talking many sparkling diamonds, I understand and appreciate the tech choice. Diamond rings and earrings fall under a different category…much harder to choose the tech over the bling in this scenario. Given the choice of a tennis bracelet or a 60 gb iPod I go with the bracelet. Perhaps this is a generational thing.