The digital adventures of the Amazing Kartoffel!
Hello True believers! It is I the Amazing Kartoffel here to help you start your new year right with words of wisdom and wit by yours truly. I am sure you are all asking how can I make my life be as amazing as yours Mr. Kartoffel! Well let me tell you! You too can lead a life of wonder such as mine by buying my upcoming book for a mere 3 easy payments of 9.99! Although I guess I can give you some guide points to keep you busy till my book actually gets written. So for my first words I say .... wait for it .... still there? Okay the word is Digitization! Digitization? Yes Digitization! Were you not listening intently and hanging on my every word back there? For part of last year and for the upcoming year I intend to leap even further into the future ahead of most mere mortals and make as much of my life digital as possible. So what does this mean you ask? No I am not yet getting that cranial computer implant. I would rather not yet trust Microsoft to actually run things inside my body, it would give new meaning to the blue screen of death. No I intend to move as much of my possessions into a digital medium as possible. I am already ahead of most people by a chunk, I am almost exclusively digital for things like photos, but there is so much more to do. One of my problem as well as for many others I would imagine, is my tendency to accrue stuff and stash it somewhere deep in the Kartoffel compound to probably not be seen again for many a year. Now I am sure you are saying to yourself, but that is MY STUFF Mr. Kartoffel! I need my stuff and I want to keep it in my feverish clutches till it is taken from my cold dead hands! Well that can be arranged! Umm, err, wait a minute that is not what I meant. While I live inside the compound, due to my large variety of experiments and armies of potato mutants I keep, storage space is a premium. So in thinking about what to do about my storage needs, I came upon the realization that in many cases it wasnt the item itself but what I contains that I was keeping it around for. For movies, it wasnt the DVD I wanted, but the movie there in. For books it isnt the paper itself, but the story on those pages that I wanted. Now some people will step back and say Mr. Kartoffel part of the experience of reading a book is the scent of the paper and that tactile feel. I agree this is a nice piece, but due to my jet setting lifestyle, it can be difficult to bring the volumes of material with me. So thus the expediency of going digital to have my collection on hand when wanted. I have done so with both text books and in particular comic books of current and vintage collections. It assists with both my want to have reading material on hand, and to save space since all that paper medium does consume a lot of storage when it piles up. As with all changes there can be trade offs, but I feel the advantages out weigh those tradeoffs. With my collections being digital, backing it up is easy, so that should some calamitous disaster fall upon Kartoffel compound, my favorite things can be readily saved by grabbing a few hard drives and running for my life from the ensuing destruction as opposed to trying to haul several hundred pounds of books and other items from the blazing inferno while not being caught in the destruction. Well that is enough words of wisdom for now true believers! I am off to continue my digital efforts and instill discipline in my mutant potato army. So for now, Excelsior!
Hello True believers! It is I the Amazing Kartoffel here to help you start your new year right with words of wisdom and wit by yours truly. I am sure you are all asking how can I make my life be as amazing as yours Mr. Kartoffel! Well let me tell you! You too can lead a life of wonder such as mine by buying my upcoming book for a mere 3 easy payments of 9.99! Although I guess I can give you some guide points to keep you busy till my book actually gets written. So for my first words I say .... wait for it .... still there? Okay the word is Digitization! Digitization? Yes Digitization! Were you not listening intently and hanging on my every word back there? For part of last year and for the upcoming year I intend to leap even further into the future ahead of most mere mortals and make as much of my life digital as possible. So what does this mean you ask? No I am not yet getting that cranial computer implant. I would rather not yet trust Microsoft to actually run things inside my body, it would give new meaning to the blue screen of death. No I intend to move as much of my possessions into a digital medium as possible. I am already ahead of most people by a chunk, I am almost exclusively digital for things like photos, but there is so much more to do. One of my problem as well as for many others I would imagine, is my tendency to accrue stuff and stash it somewhere deep in the Kartoffel compound to probably not be seen again for many a year. Now I am sure you are saying to yourself, but that is MY STUFF Mr. Kartoffel! I need my stuff and I want to keep it in my feverish clutches till it is taken from my cold dead hands! Well that can be arranged! Umm, err, wait a minute that is not what I meant. While I live inside the compound, due to my large variety of experiments and armies of potato mutants I keep, storage space is a premium. So in thinking about what to do about my storage needs, I came upon the realization that in many cases it wasnt the item itself but what I contains that I was keeping it around for. For movies, it wasnt the DVD I wanted, but the movie there in. For books it isnt the paper itself, but the story on those pages that I wanted. Now some people will step back and say Mr. Kartoffel part of the experience of reading a book is the scent of the paper and that tactile feel. I agree this is a nice piece, but due to my jet setting lifestyle, it can be difficult to bring the volumes of material with me. So thus the expediency of going digital to have my collection on hand when wanted. I have done so with both text books and in particular comic books of current and vintage collections. It assists with both my want to have reading material on hand, and to save space since all that paper medium does consume a lot of storage when it piles up. As with all changes there can be trade offs, but I feel the advantages out weigh those tradeoffs. With my collections being digital, backing it up is easy, so that should some calamitous disaster fall upon Kartoffel compound, my favorite things can be readily saved by grabbing a few hard drives and running for my life from the ensuing destruction as opposed to trying to haul several hundred pounds of books and other items from the blazing inferno while not being caught in the destruction. Well that is enough words of wisdom for now true believers! I am off to continue my digital efforts and instill discipline in my mutant potato army. So for now, Excelsior!