After Summer, Bury Your Head

by Sam Pattillo

Have you ever been marginalized materialistically by a toddler? I was recently sharing a breakfast table snacking on some vanilla frosted cinnamon toast crunch (very rare) when that exact scenario became my reality. A 5-year-old gentleman took a break from messing around on his iPad and got to the point.

“Where is your iPad?”

“I don’t have one,” I replied

“You don’t have one?” the flabbergasted 5-year-old responded.

It was at this moment that I realized something. I was metaphorically as good as dead to this 5-year-old. Completely irrelevant in 2012 as far as he was concerned.

Cue the next realization. Summer is over. It is 4th quarter, aka sweater-vest season. There is only one option: to elevate my technological aura. Cannot be showing up to important business or personal functions with a Struggleberry in this day and age. Can’t even compete socially on Instagram with those things and everyone knows it. How do you expect people to take you seriously looking lackluster with a below-the-year technology showing? The solution is simple: purchase the niftiest of technology at the cheapest available price and let the world know you mean business. Here are some places to start:

1) Macbook Pro

2) Toshiba Satellite C Series

3) HTC Vevo 4G

4) Sony NEX 5N

5) Google Nexus 7

6) Acer Aspire S3

7) Samsung Galaxy S III

8) Nikon D800

This post is sponsored by eBay. From the new to the hard to find, when it’s on your mind, it’s on eBay.