A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

The Holiday season usually brings some new wine gadgets, and this year
is no exception. One offered by Frontgate caught my eye because of the
expense. For only US $7999.00, you may have an eSommelier Wine
Inventory System. This is a small desktop special purpose computer with
attached bar code label maker. It uses a global wine database. It
allows many kinds of searches, etc. For that price you could buy
several normal computers and many versions of wine software.

Of course if you buy this gadget, any SWMBO around is likely to have
you hauled away by the people in white coats, or demand a gift of equal
value for herself. Again Frontgate can solve this problem. They have a
Jewelry Armoire Safe that is crafted in Italy by the Osvaldo Agresti
studio. It is covered in rare woods, is 58 inches high and weighs 150
pounds. It costs $7499.00 plus $250 for home delivery. Since this huge
safe would look so empty, you likely would have to stop by Cartier to
get a jewel or two to put in it. That might pacify SWMBO.

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

cwdjrxyz wrote:
> The Holiday season usually brings some new wine gadgets, and this year
> is no exception. One offered by Frontgate caught my eye because of the
> expense. For only US $7999.00,
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:

http://www.winepod.net/

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

cwdjrxyz wrote:
> . One offered by Frontgate caught my eye because of the
> expense. For only US $7999.00, you may have an eSommelier Wine
> Inventory System. This is a small desktop special purpose computer with
> attached bar code label maker. It uses a global wine database. It
> allows many kinds of searches, etc. For that price you could buy
> several normal computers and many versions of wine software.
>
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.

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

Ron Natalie wrote:
> cwdjrxyz wrote:
> > The Holiday season usually brings some new wine gadgets, and this year
> > is no exception. One offered by Frontgate caught my eye because of the
> > expense. For only US $7999.00,
> 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:
>
> http://www.winepod.net/

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.

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

"cwdjrxyz" > skrev i meddelandet
ps.com...

> Of course if you buy this gadget, any SWMBO around is likely to have
> you hauled away by the people in white coats, or demand a gift of equal
> value for herself. ... That might pacify SWMBO.

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

--
Respond to nils dot lindgren at drchips dot se

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

Nils Gustaf Lindgren wrote:
> "cwdjrxyz" > skrev i meddelandet
> ps.com...
>
> > Of course if you buy this gadget, any SWMBO around is likely to have
> > you hauled away by the people in white coats, or demand a gift of equal
> > value for herself. ... That might pacify SWMBO.
>
> Sir,

Do you know for sure that I am a man?

> With all due respect, I would hazard that this could be construed as sexist,
> and prejudiced against the female of the species.

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
> lady of the house who desired this glorious piece of gadgetry? Hmmm?

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 :-).



> 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
>
> --
> Respond to nils dot lindgren at drchips dot se

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

"cwdjrxyz" > skrev i meddelandet
oups.com...
>
> Nils Gustaf Lindgren wrote:
>> "cwdjrxyz" > skrev i meddelandet
>> ps.com...
>>
>> > Of course if you buy this gadget, any SWMBO around is likely to have
>> > you hauled away by the people in white coats, or demand a gift of equal
>> > value for herself. ... That might pacify SWMBO.
>>
>> Sir,
>
> Do you know for sure that I am a man?


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

--
Respond to nils dot lindgren at drchips dot se

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

cwdjrxyz wrote:

> Do you know for sure that I am a man?

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

>
>> With all due respect, I would hazard that this could be construed as sexist,
>> and prejudiced against the female of the species.
>
> 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 :-).

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

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

In article om>,
says...
>
>The Holiday season usually brings some new wine gadgets, and this year
>is no exception. One offered by Frontgate caught my eye because of the
>expense. For only US $7999.00, you may have an eSommelier Wine
>Inventory System. This is a small desktop special purpose computer with
>attached bar code label maker. It uses a global wine database. It
>allows many kinds of searches, etc. For that price you could buy
>several normal computers and many versions of wine software.
>
>Of course if you buy this gadget, any SWMBO around is likely to have
>you hauled away by the people in white coats, or demand a gift of equal
>value for herself. Again Frontgate can solve this problem. They have a
>Jewelry Armoire Safe that is crafted in Italy by the Osvaldo Agresti
>studio. It is covered in rare woods, is 58 inches high and weighs 150
>pounds. It costs $7499.00 plus $250 for home delivery. Since this huge
>safe would look so empty, you likely would have to stop by Cartier to
>get a jewel or two to put in it. That might pacify SWMBO.

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

A Very Expensive Wine Gadget
 

In article >,
says...
>
>"cwdjrxyz" > skrev i meddelandet
ups.com...
>
>> Of course if you buy this gadget, any SWMBO around is likely to have
>> you hauled away by the people in white coats, or demand a gift of equal
>> value for herself. ... That might pacify SWMBO.
>
>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
>
>--
>Respond to nils dot lindgren at drchips dot se

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