One of the interesting things about Woot is the product descriptions of the stuff they're selling. Usually it is more commentary than description. It's often worth visiting their site every day just to read the product descriptions. Here is one from today. If you aren't interested in the media player the commentary is still an interesting viewpoint.
Last Sunday thought it was so cool. But you know what? There won’t be another 10-17-10 for a hundred years, either.
Around here, we don’t believe in privileging one date over another just because of some numerical accident. It’s all a bit arbitrary, ennit? If we were still going by the Julian calendar – don’t laugh, the Russians used it as late as 1918 – that awesome 10-10-10 would be the much more humdrum 9-27-10. Or the Islamic calendar? It renders that day as 11-3-31. The Mayan Long Count calendar says it was 12.19.17.13.18. Yeah, we don’t really get it either. If you bump into any Mayans, ask them for us, wouldja?
So where do people get off designating a certain Sunday as a once-in-a-lifetime event and the next Sunday as barely worth remembering? There are all kinds of incredible things happening today, too. Somewhere, a woman is crying through the first seconds of motherhood, her heart swollen with a love she never knew possible. A man has just broken free of an addiction that had reduced him to something between a robot and a slave: 10-17-10 is the first day of the rest of his life. TV’s Sharon Leal (Boston Public, Guiding Light) celebrates turning 38. And Woot is selling the Sandisk Sansa Fuze 4GB Media Player.
Yes, on this date like no other, Woot salutes a media player like no other. The Sansa Fuze loads files through trusty old drag-and-drop – no need for some bloated proprietary interface. It’ll play just about anything that calls itself a “media file”, from MP3 to WMA to OGG to JPG to AVI to MOV to WMV, including podcasts and audiobooks, plus a bunch more. (You might need to run some video files through Sansa Media Converter, but as The Simpsons said, “Pobody’s nerfect in Australia”.) And its middling 4GB of storage space is expandable with the addition of an SDHC card. It’s the perfect media player for a unique day like today. We think every day is unique and special. And they’re all worthy of celebration.
Except May 24th. No particular reason, really. That date has just always gotten on our nerves.
So where do people get off designating a certain Sunday as a once-in-a-lifetime event and the next Sunday as barely worth remembering? There are all kinds of incredible things happening today, too. Somewhere, a woman is crying through the first seconds of motherhood, her heart swollen with a love she never knew possible. A man has just broken free of an addiction that had reduced him to something between a robot and a slave: 10-17-10 is the first day of the rest of his life. TV’s Sharon Leal (Boston Public, Guiding Light) celebrates turning 38. And Woot is selling the Sandisk Sansa Fuze 4GB Media Player.
Yes, on this date like no other, Woot salutes a media player like no other. The Sansa Fuze loads files through trusty old drag-and-drop – no need for some bloated proprietary interface. It’ll play just about anything that calls itself a “media file”, from MP3 to WMA to OGG to JPG to AVI to MOV to WMV, including podcasts and audiobooks, plus a bunch more. (You might need to run some video files through Sansa Media Converter, but as The Simpsons said, “Pobody’s nerfect in Australia”.) And its middling 4GB of storage space is expandable with the addition of an SDHC card. It’s the perfect media player for a unique day like today. We think every day is unique and special. And they’re all worthy of celebration.
Except May 24th. No particular reason, really. That date has just always gotten on our nerves.
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