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Like most people, when I buy a fridge, I am in a rush. I need a fridge. Now. What’s in stock and when can you deliver it? <\/p>\n
My old fridge was suddenly struck dead; I’ve just immigrated; I’ve just been kicked out of my home; elephants have infested my fridge and are leaving footprints in the butter – Whatever the reason for needing a fridge doesn’t matter! Yesterday I didn’t need a fridge, and today I need one.<\/p>\n
That’s not a lot of time for comparison shopping. Nor do I plan ahead – I’ve had the same fridge for many years now, but I haven’t given any thought to the ideal capacity of my next<\/em> fridge. I don’t have any preferred brands or desires for any particular features. Do you?<\/p>\n So while a fridge isn’t exactly an “impulse” purchase, it is a rushed purchase, and you have to live with your decision for a long time.<\/p>\n Motherboards are the same. <\/p>\n My old motherboard is suddenly struck by lightning; a BIOS upgrade went horribly wrong; venegeful elephants have interfered with my computer – whatever the reason, my home machine is dead. I need it fixed. Now.<\/p>\n This last time, I actually managed to hold off without a home computer for a couple of days while I did some research to determine the best motherboard for my needs and my budget. I was very proud of myself. Now, months later, I find that my life would have been easier now if I had forked out for a motherboard with an ICH5R<\/em> chipset rather than merely settling for the ICH5.<\/p>\n Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I buy a fridge, I am in a rush. I need a fridge. Now.<\/p>\n Motherboards are the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,31],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-cathartic-rant","category-geek","tag-computer-parts","tag-whitegoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}