Hey everyone! I’m sorry I’ve not been posting regularly. But I’ve been really busy playing with my latest electronic toy - A Digital Voice recorder.

This thing has me totally hooked. It allows me to record anything, anytime and play it back later. I always carry it around. It’s fun to hear my own voice. Just think of all the things you can do! You can send the voice recorder to all your meetings where it will record what everyone said, so that you can ignore it later. Also, you can use the time you saved by doing more productive things, like reading this blog.

But the best part is that now I can tell jokes to myself. Usually, it’s difficult to laugh at your own jokes. Kinda like tickling yourself. But this way, I can tell a joke to myself, and then play it back later when I’m feeling down. My own jokes sound so much funnier when I hear them later!

I feel so bad for not having this when I was in College. I could have sent this to the class and gone playing snooker.

Me: “Prof, I’m not going to come to class from tomorrow. But I’m going to send my Voice Recorder instead to listen to your lecture. Please give me attendance”
Prof: “No. If you’re not in class, no attendance”
Me: “But this thingy is so much better than me.”
Prof: “How?”
Me: “Well, the Recorder won’t organize a tic-tac-toe tournament during your lecture distracting everyone in a 10-foot radius.”
Prof: “It’s a deal!”

Having the Recorder is a little bit like having the ability to time-travel. You can ask everyone to talk into the recorder in the present, and listen to it in the future, and respond to their past questions in the future, which is really the present when you play it, which means we are currently in the future. Or is that the past? Hmm…I’m presently confusing my future self.

Anyway, I think this will come very useful when having “discussions” with the wife.

Wife: “We need to talk about the shopping we need to do for Diwali”
Me: “Sure. Why don’t you tell my Recorder everything, and I’ll get back to you when my TV show ends”
Wife: “I think you need to start paying more attention to what is happening in the real world instead of….”
Me: “Can you tell that to the Recorder too? And, it can only store 44 hours of sound, so…Try to keep it short, OK?”

I think that will work great, no?

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