Apreche's Journal: Magical Intarweb

Ah, the internet. Ah google. Whe combined you are god. What is god? An imaginary omniscient omnipresent omnipotent omnibeing. Well, google and the inernet are just that.

Omniscient = all knowing. All information known to human society can be found on the internet. Google helps you find it.

Omnipresent = everywhere. With a sattelite phone and a pda or laptop I can access the internet from all over earth and even earth's orbit.

Omnipotent = all powerful. It's not quite there yet. But let's assume that I had complete control over every device connected to the internet. I would also have complete control over things like the power grid, railroads, flight schedules, etc. I might not be able to set your mother on fire so easily, but I can sure as hell make her flight to Florida crash. The internet is the most omnipotent thing there is.

Omnibeing = feel free to argue to the end of time whether the internet and google are beings or not. I couldn't care less.

Yeah, so why did I think of this? Today something happened that again reminded me just how poweful the intarweb is. My brother called me on my cell phone when I was in the grocery store. He wanted to know which headset microphone to buy for half-life playing. I told him I was looking for one too, and I didn't know which one to buy. He bought some logitech thing. I left Wegman's and went to CompuUSA (groan) to look for a headset microphone. The selection was meager. I found nothing that suited my needs of Half-Life playing. I got home and did the google. Nothing. The same crap I saw everywhere else. I went to /. and was about to do an ask /. about which headset I should buy. I was looking for the following

1) Microphone only
2) Comfort for long periods of use (lightweight)
3) Not USB, sound card microphone plug only
4) Wireless or long cord. Freedom must be maintained.

Before I clicked post my roomate messaged me and I discussed it a bit with him. I got the idea to go to logitech.com and see what my brother bought. It was actually close to what I wanted.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/details&CRID=103&CONTENTID=6339&countryid=19&languageid=1

The problem was that it had headphones. Oh well, the rest of it was almost perfect. Then I saw right under it, a godsend.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/details&CRID=103&CONTENTID=7511&countryid=19&languageid=1

Oh yeah, the perfectness. It has headphones, but I don't have to plug those in. And hay, if I decide at night to play a round or two, I don't have to wake up the town. Also, I realized they might be useful for when my roomate is on the other team as opposed to my team. Since the product isn't out yet, I told logitech to e-mail me when it's for sale.

Just an example of how the internet knows all, and is willing to tell all. Imagine if there was no internet. What would my shopping experience have been like? Would I have bought an inferior product? Would I have wasted more gas visiting every store? Who knows. All I can say is thank god for the internet. B-)