A Very Expensive Wine Gadget

CellarTracker.org and a laptop, bar code printer, and bar code scanner can be had for a tiny fraction of that!

If you've really got money burning a hole in your pocket, how about this:

Or one $500 computer setup (doesn't require much of a system),$100 printer, $100 bar code reader, $40 donation to Cellartracker, $2000 of jewelry for SWMBO, & $5,260 worth of wine to practice using your barcode printer. :) I think I just threw the Frontgate catalog in recycling, I'll fish it out and clip item to put on my list, then duck in case Betsy throws list at me. Thanks for the laugh.

Although not as expensive as the gadget I mentioned, the Wineod costs plenty!

Often Neiman Marcus offers a featured, extremely expensive gift. One offer was for his and her airplanes quite a few years ago. Their offer this year is a pre-booking of the Virgin Galactic Charter To Space for

6 people. Expected departure is in 2009. That will cost you US $1,764,000. This gift reminds me of an old Mae West legend. When someone suggested to Mae West that she must have been very good to be given such a fine fir coat, Mae replied to the effect that goodness had absolutely nothing to do with it! A gift this expensive might likely be a bribe for some important service.

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Sir, With all due respect, I would hazard that this could be construed as sexist, and prejudiced against the female of the species. Why would it not be the lady of the house who desired this glorious piece of gadgetry? Hmmm?

I am happy to say that in our household, the madness to spend extravagantly on things wine related, is fairly equally distributed.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

Do you know for sure that I am a man?

Hardly. I questioned the value of the gadget compared with conventional computers, so, if anything, the woman has more practical sense about it if she objects. Thus, if I am a man, I might be considered as sexist and prejudiced against the male of the species :-).

Why would it not be the

It might be in some cases. Not all ladies are as practical as others and might desire a device that I painted as likely overpriced compared to options. And then it could be a 2 lady or 2 man house, when one plays the role of lady and the other of man, but I dont't think we want to go more deeply into this subject :-).

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Well; Somehow I always thought cwdjrxyz sounded like a boy's name ... Then again, as is often the case, I might be wrong. Cheers! Nils Gustaf

Hmmm... Barring the possibility of identity theft, *I* do... but your secrets are safe with me. ;-)

I believe that there are quite a few studies showing that spending on high tech gadgetry is disproportionately skewed to the male of the species. No doubt there is a Y chromosome-linked gene for early adoption ;-)

Mark Lipton

Actually, if I were to build a new home and cellar, I'd think about a bar code scanner (with printer and my database, etc.) to keep track of it all. I think I could do it for far less than US$8k, but then I would not have THEIR database. Now, I usually handwrite the little neck-hangers, then stack the ones from the bottles, that I remove, for later deletion from the computer. One think that I definitely WOULD do is have a CAT-6 Gigabit LAN connection in the cellar, so I could just go in there with the laptop and hook into the database, as those paper neck-hangers get blown all around, when the breeze hits the pool patio.

Hunt

Just a guess, but I'd venture that guys are much more anal, about their cellar tracking. The gals just enjoy drinking the wine. At least that's how it is around MY house.

Hunt