The Wow Starts Now…For One Lucky Gear Diary Reader!
Posted on 01 March 2007, at 3:08 pm, by Mitchell Oke
This contest is now closed. The winner will be posted shortly…stay tuned. 
Last night the 100th review was posted on Gear Diary!! Since Judie started Gear Diary on September 30th last year, the Gear Diary team and many other contributors have made a total of 440 posts, consisting of a combination of reviews, news, rants and other thoughts. You, our dedicated readers, have supported us with almost 2400 comments on these articles too!
Thanks to everyone who has helped make Gear Diary what it is today, and we appreciate your continued support as we move into the future! Just in time to celebrate this review milestone, Judie has received a full RTM copy of Windows Vista Ultimate, which we are giving away!
This “licensed as if it were a retail copy” of Vista was donated by Microsoft Windows Client Marketing.
no pretty box – but the content is all there!
While many may think that Vista will only run properly on a new and fairly high-end machine, I am here to put those fears to rest. I can attest that my recently – and very cheaply built PC (AU$400 or about US$320), runs Vista beautifully with full Aero Glass. It looks fantastic, even though this is all it has to work with:
• Celeron D 336 2.8Ghz
• 512MB DDR2 667 RAM
• 250GB 7200RPM
• ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB
So you don’t have to have the latest and greatest to get the full Vista experience with Aero. I actually find the Vista interface to be nicer than Mac OS X, and just as smooth!
So what do you have to do to win this awesome prize? Comment below with an experience in your life that has made you go Wow!, or something that would make you say Wow!
The Fine Print
This contest will be open to anyone that lives in a country where Microsoft does business. If you aren’t sure – check here.
The contest will close at 5:30 CST on March 30th, and the Gear Diary Team will announce a winner shortly thereafter.
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March 1st, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Winning this contest would make me say “Wow!”. So does being the first to comment on it. I don’t think that has EVER happened.
March 1st, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Although I would love to share a gadget related “wow”… and there have been many of them… and although having been in the ministry with teens and now adults for over 25 years with many, many “wows”… it’s hard for me to think about “wow” moments without remembering the birth of my kids… wow
March 1st, 2007 at 4:36 pm
I can make you say ‘Wow’. We only vacated ME about 6 months ago and went with XP Pro on a new home PC. I’d be afraid to go to Vista during it’s ‘full public beta testing’.
I yield to the other contestants.
March 1st, 2007 at 4:37 pm
…but thank you for the contest. – Didn’t mean for my previous to sound ’snooty’. I just live on the back-edge of technology.
March 1st, 2007 at 5:29 pm
this a no brainer. My “Wow” moment was when I first met my wife. We were set up on a blind date and when I first laid eyes on her, I couldn’t believe how beautiful she was. My 2nd and 3rd “wow” moments happened that same day too: when I discovered that she was as beautiful inside as she was outside, and when she agreed to go on a 2nd date with me. Wow!
March 1st, 2007 at 5:53 pm
My “Wow” moment was when I realized that I had voluntarily hard-reset my Pocket PC and blew away the hard drive on my primary machine (the one with all the data) on the same day. It’s a different “Wow” but it’s a “Wow” nonetheless.
btw, if I am chosen to win, please pass the prize on to another lucky reader as I’m already running Vista Ultimate and enjoying it greatly.
March 1st, 2007 at 6:29 pm
The “wow” for me was when I got my first PDA, a Dell X3i it was well worth the months it took to save up.
March 1st, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Wow—-they aren’t going to start using the “My Soul Mate Story Card” right off the bat to win this thing, are they?? Guess so; well anyway. I had just discovered RSS readers and Feeds and so naturally I started poking around for what feeds I might want. I discovered one where this woman said she just started this new site, that she had been working with some other tech woman for quite awhile, so please invite yourself in and look around. So I did and I kept her site in my Feed Reader because it turned out to have pretty useful stuff, almost everyday with every new post. I was liking her fairly objective approach, her willingness to teach, and that she would even throw in her user experiences and opinion, as well. Very useful. Then one day she had a contest. longstoryshort, for a case for a Moto Q and I won. I decided to poke around more on the actual site and find out who this person was and there was a picture and Bio. THAT”S when I said: “WOW….she’s smart AND helpful AND pretty AND now she’s my Tech Mate.”
March 1st, 2007 at 7:04 pm
I’ll say Wow! when I see AeroGlass running on my monitor …
March 1st, 2007 at 7:44 pm
-giggles- okay, I have no chance of winning, but I don’t mind, so long as I can share a hilarious story XD
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Me and a few friends were playing a card game called “law,” where figuring out the rules ARE the point of the game, pretty much (it’s a bit long to explain XD), and one of our rules was that when a certain card was played, you could play a matching card, but you had to throw it at the person who just went. If you hit the person, you got to play your card. If you hit their face, they also lost their turn. Well, it turned out that one person wanted to steal his own turn, so that he could play twice. So he whips the card at himself, and smacks himself in the face. We all stared at him and started laughing because he should obviously not have hit himself. At which point he looked at us, and with a really sad voice said… “I forgot to dodge
That made us all go wow XDD and laugh quite a bit!
March 1st, 2007 at 7:57 pm
My biggest tech-related “Wow” was winning the Atari Star award in 1984 for a video game called “GETAWAY!”, but without doubt, the three biggest “Wows” in my life have been my wedding day and the births of my two children; all mind blowing Wows!
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 am
non-tech related WOW: I went to an ‘In Search of Sunrise’ concert that featured Tiesto, he put on a show that really made me say ‘WOW’. He is an amazing DJ/Performer.
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If I do win this copy of Vista it would be awesome I’ve been wanting to make the move to Vista but it’s currently out of budget.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:56 am
I arrived in Australia 2 months ago. We left Canada in a blizzard, it was winter after all and I was wearing a comfy black wool vest with a high collar. When I stepped outside the airport of Melbourne still wearing my black wool vest, it was summer, 40 degrees, it was one day forward in time too (international date line had been crossed a few hours ago). It dawn on me that we had landed on the other side of the world. Wow! I said. But thinking back I think it may have sounded more like Woa!
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:38 am
The first time I held my little girl’s hand in between my fingers. Her hand was so tiny; she was so tiny. It was amazing. I knew this before, but it was at that moment that it finally sunk in that I’m responsible for the welfare and happiness of this little stranger. And it was a wonderful realization.
By the way, how do you win this little contest? Is it whomever comes with the best story? Or is it a random selection of the people that post a “Wow” story? I hope it’s the latter because there have been some wonderful stories told so far and I probably wouldn’t have a shot.
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:20 am
Count me in. The machines I’ve seen with Vista running
were really impressive. I think the “wow” slogan was very well chosen.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Thanks for the opportunity to enter all of your contests. There’s been a few lately. I found out about this one from MobilitySite to give credit where credit is due.
In keeping with the geek theme of this website, my “Wow” story has to do with my Pharos GPS 525. It came with all of the accessories that I need to use it in the home (USB to mini-USB adaptor), in the car (cigarette adaptor & windshield holder), and whilst all other places mobile (nice case, decent battery life, 300 MHz CPU for apps, built in WiFi & Bluetooth). It has very nice application integration and all of the peripherals you would need to be able to use it right away for all of the functions you really need. Heck, it even came with a charge in the battery so I could use it right out of the box! But I think that’s the way it’s supposed to be, right?!
A secondary “Wow” goes out to user ctmagnus who said that they would like to pass the copy of Vista over to another user if they won. That’s pretty amazing!
Gene
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:55 pm
The greatest gadget wow for me was when I was but a wee lad getting his first PDA (a Palm IIIe as it was discontinued) and I used OmniRemote to make it into a remote control. The anticipation I had for the device was amazing. I spent the months prior downloading applications and waiting, ever waiting. On Christmas Day when I unboxed it, I was almost thwarted by the battery holder! The batteries don’t go in the normal way.
My greatest future wow would actually be winning a contest, as I’ve never won one before.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:17 pm
My greatest gadget wow was getting broadband for the very first time. After years with a 2400, 9600, 14.4, 28.8, 33.6, 56k modems and using JUNO and Prodigy (back when it was still a BBS and you couldn’t select your own users names) I got DSL with FreeDSL (WinFire). It was truly quite an experience back then as I’d used to have 2 phone lines and download files over night and sometimes overnight for days! Just watching that file meter move….ooooo…aaaa….WOW!
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Like everyone, I have my personal “wow” moments as well – the first time I looked into the eyes of the woman I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with…hearing the first laugh of all the children in my life, and knowing it was only the first of many, and my job to make sure there were many more – from giggles to guffaws…
I also have my professional “wow” moments – for a living, I help people get out of debt, and have had some really great wow moments and some terribly low wow moments with my clients.
So, my “wow” is to try to get other people who read here to read this and say “wow…”
Credit card companies try to woo you with funny commercials and promises to protect you from theives, all the while looking for ways to jack up your interest rates, and tack on more fees. They can be super helpful, right until the moment that you really need the help the most, and then your reward is a blind eye and a deaf ear – along with out of control fees and interest.
Check your contract for a clause called Universal Default – what this means is that if you are late paying your water bill, car payment or really for any reason at all – the credit card company can take you to their maximum interest rate – up to 30% from wherever you were before. A second favorite is for them to raise your interest rate for a month or 2 and see if you actually notice. Most people don’t.
Most people think they are doing fine if they can meet their minimum payments – so not true. Head over sometime to Bankrate.com and click on the calculator tab, then in the credit card section, click on the part The True Cost of Paying the Minimum. Plug in your info and see what it says.
I guarantee you’ll be shocked at how long it would take you to pay back $5000.00 at a 7% interest rate. (Making only minimum payments, 14.75 years, and 1456.00 in interest – FYI)
Just something to think about – I see people all day long who thought they were doing fine, but got in over their heads when their interest rates were doubled or tripled and so were their minimum payments, and they just couldn’t keep up any more.
And, I just got a new laptop with Vista Home Premium – so I think I’m good for now. Ultimate would be cool, if only for the dreamscape thing – but I’m sure there are people here who can’t get Vista right now any other way than winning – so If I win, please put it back into the prize pool. Or, let me help with a new contest and put if back up as a prize.
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:21 am
WOW!
I have been fortunate enough to have visited Whistler/Blackcomb in British Columbia. The view from the top of Whistler mountain is AWESOME – the best vista you will ever see.
2nd best would be winning this Vista!
March 3rd, 2007 at 1:07 am
I think Wow every time I read an interesting article on this website.
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:41 am
The first time I rode my new motorcycle. It was over a year ago and I still say “Wow” when I ride it.
March 3rd, 2007 at 7:01 am
Being there when my boys were born. To me that was Wow. Then it hits me, Wow I’m a dad.
Dave
March 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 am
I have been lucky enough to have many great Wow moment in my life – first of them my weddind, and when my wife agreed to marry me
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As for my biggest gadget-related wow, it was when I first saw a Toshiba VGA E800 screen – I was using an Ipaq 1940, a QVGA screen with no that much backlight and a yellowish teint, and the E800 just make me say wow. When prices dropped to acceptable I purchased ones and it’s a great screen for Ebook reading.
Who now, after 6 years of WinXP, if I win this contest perhaps the Aero interface will outwow the E800 wow
March 3rd, 2007 at 9:12 am
I too have been fortunate enough to have had many wow moments in my life. When I was a child I remember the first time I got to go to New York City and go onto the roof of the world trade center and the top of the empire state building (WOW)! Being in the room when my children were born was a big wow! I have had too many wow moments, when it comes to gadgets, to mention them all. I am not able to get some of the (IMHO) better PDA phones since GSM providers don’t market to my area, but I have been able to get a new device almost every year (provided there is a device I feel is worth upgrading to). I have had WOW moments with them all, but I think the most has come from my Moto Q. Maybe that’s because it’s the most recent, but I truly never thought I could enjoy a smartphone (no touch screen that is) so much. I am posting this with it right now and am wowed by how easy text entry is even with my large thumbs. I would never have taken the time to tap out this mich text with one of my pocket pcs!
March 3rd, 2007 at 9:38 am
First time i came to a harbour and on-board a sea-ship. I was around 10 at the time and at that very moment, i realized the big difference between watching the sea and sea-ships through TV and seeing with bare eyes. I am so tiny and the world is giant. My childhood since went with the assumption that when one thing looks great/spectacular through the TV, it is for sure much better in real life, and my life was abundant with beautiful hopes and imaginations about the world.
…uhm…now that i’ve grown up and it sucks re-realizing that TV and the media are more about lies than “minimized speculations”. Life is still beautiful though, but it were much more wonderful under a childhood view.
March 3rd, 2007 at 10:21 am
I remember when I have first seen Cantor’s proof that set or real number is not denumerable. My reaction was WoW!!!
May sound very strange but my passion is mathmetics.
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
The joy of two kids, a loving wife, a brother and sister far better than I deserve? WOW! Wait. Did I just say “The joy of two kids?”. Wow! Wut wuz I drinking 80
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for programming. I once had a (state) science fair back in eighth grade (many years ago). Now me, having been brought up with technology all my life (it all started with our first family computer – an Amiga A1000), I decided to do my project using BASIC. This was my first foray into the world of programming. My project dealt with probability and bingo. The program ran hundreds of simulated bingo games and displayed each one visually (very slow screen refreshes!). You would have seen red chips being placed on the virtual bingo boards, but at the science fair itself we only had a monochrome monitor available to us. I ended up memorizing pages and pages of a speech I had typed out, to recite (nervously, as this was the state level of the science fair) it to any of the company representatives that would happen to inquire about my project. A couple of people did, but not too many. However, when the event was over, they had a little “ceremony” of sorts and called out people’s names that had won prizes for their projects. My name was called and I ended up winning a CHECK (not a bond, like most others got) for $200 from a U.S. government agency. This is one of my first experiences that made me go WOW!
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I still remember my first MS WOW. I was using an early model PC with mostly DOS when my company gave me a new OS – Windows 3.1. That was a big WOW!
March 4th, 2007 at 9:09 am
The first time I said WOW was when I fired up my Time Machine and travelled into the future to view the results of the 2008 presidential elections. Anyone want to know who the winner will be?
Just kidding…my time machine only travels into the past!
March 4th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Last year, at the beginning of the summer, our city installed new street crossing signs–those that notify you of the signal state by voice, as well as by visuals. A few weeks later, as I was leaving my downtown workplace for lunch, my friends and I saw a blind woman come to the edge of a crosswalk that contained one of the new signs. Her cane stopped tapping across her path for a moment. She tilted her head, and lifted her ear to listen. A small crowd formed behind her giving her room to go forward.
“Wait. Wait. Wait,” the sign said, then “Walk.”
she stepped off the curb, then after a few quick steps jumped up and forward, scissoring her legs forward and behind in a perfect split (what my wife later told me was a Grand jete.)
A wave of joy ripped through the crowd. It tingled.
Wows, laughs, and a car horn all thanked her courage and the technology that enabled it.
March 4th, 2007 at 10:48 am
The first Motorola StarTAC cellphone made me go WOW! As soon as I saw it – at the tender age of 15 – I knew I had to have it. I managed to pester my parents so much that they signed a contract on my behalf to get it (this was back prior to contract-free pay-as-you-go phones in the UK); I felt so cool with my tiny flip-phone when the few other people with mobiles that I knew only had chunky brick handsets.
I felt a similar WOW feeling when I saw the V3 RAZR, and just had to get that on the first day it was out in the UK. If, for a future contest perhaps, you’re looking for our favourite MEH! moments then may I pre-emptively suggest my disgust at the craptastic Motorola UI?
March 4th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
What makes me go “wow” is every day when I wake up… sober. Just kidding.
Seriously, one of my “wow” moments would be the first time I kissed a girl. I was so nervous! I was thinking what if she doesn’t want me to kiss her; what if i do it wrong; what if i get embarrassed? And then I finally kissed her and all my fears were for not. That’s when I had one of my first “wow” moments: realizing some things aren’t such a big deal to worry over them and who cares if things don’t work out perfectly.
March 4th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
The first time I used a tablet pc I said “Wow!”. They’re definitely the coolest thing ever. Winning a copy of Vista would be pretty wow-able too.
March 4th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
The first time I got a real job after college – that was my wow moment. It was during the height of the dot com era and I landed a small job as an html coder. It didn’t pay much, but it was a start. My wow moment wasn’t just one moment but many that built up one after the other. One of the firsts was when I took my parents out for dinner and paid the check. It was the VERY least I could do after all that they’ve done for me thru out the years. And it all led up to the moment when I got my own apartment and started to live on my own. Wow, I am a man!
March 4th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
It was 1981 I was 9 years old. I’d always been interested in computers and electronics and read science fiction almost exclusively. Of course, being 9 years old and it being only 1981 and all, I’d never actually seen a computer; I’d only read about them.
There was a local electronics shop (Brian Snell, just down the road on George Street in my home town of Dunedin, New Zealand) which had a spectacular display of new-fangled digital watches. These things had all sorts of amazing features. There were calculators and and even games on these. I had a Casio watch which had a golf game with a little man and a tiny black dot on a green-shaded LCD background.
One day, after school, I went into this shop to look at the watches and calculators and spotted something new; in the middle of the store was a small black box connected to a TV set. The TV screen was completely white (well, a slightly fuzzy light-gray to be accurate) with a small black-on white “K” in the bottom left corner. I was curious and went to investigate.
Upon closer inspection I saw that this small black wedge of plastic had keys of sorts – a flat plastic panel with white sqaures upon which were printed letters, words and blocky black-and-white shapes. I’d press “P” and the word “PRINT” would appear on the TV before me. I pressed a few buttons and more nonsense would appear. When I pressed “NEW LINE” a strange message would appear informing me of a “SYNTAX ERROR”, whatever that was. This was exciting.
After a while of standing in front of this thing, a Sinclair ZX81 as it turned out, one of the sales staff came over and asked if I’d like the manual. “Yes Please!” said I, and away he went, soon returning with a spiral bound book with a glossy and futuristic picture of a spaceship flying over what appeared to be space-age blue buildings. This was the “ZX81 BASIC PROGRAMMING MANUAL”. Within its pages were the most incredible things I had read in my life. It contained instructions for making this ZX81 do things; not just any things but things that I wanted it to do.
I probably started with 10 PRINT “HELLO, I AM A COMPUTER”. It was almost certainly no more involved than that. But when I pressed “R” and “RUN” appeared before me, and pressed “NEW LINE” and saw those words that I had commanded displayed on that screen, it changed my life.
My memory of that time is a bit faded and the details a little unsure but I clearly remember the thrill of it. I remember the deep feeling that this was what I wanted to do with my life. Within a couple of weeks I had taught myself enough BASIC (still standing in front of that machine in the shop; there was no chair) that I was writing demo programmes and games for the various electronics shops in town.
From that moment back in 1981 I never had a problem answering that simple but so complex question; “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
March 5th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Recently, I started capturing old VHS tapes to my Media Computer as computer files. About 15 years ago, I transferred hours and hours of old 8MM tapes, some of them 50 years old. Now that they are on computer files, I’ve used Windows Movie Maker to slice the files into short clips, added a little music to the old clips and then posted it as a Music Video on YouTube…..
What’s so “wow” about this is that my 87 year old grandmother, who has never used a computer in her life, saw the video, loved it so much that she now has a YouTube account. She’s even emailing and using the webcam to keep in touch with her children, grandchildren and even GREAT grandchildren. WOW!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
I had a “wow” moment the other day while I was playing my XBox 360 and received an instant message on the 360 from a friend in Scotland, who’ve I met and befriended on an online community.
There are 2 cool things here. the first is that I could have then started a voice call to him over the XBox while carrying on playing, which is pretty cool in itself.
The other cool thing is I’m sitting playing this game and it’s so impressive graphic-wise, and when I was a kid, I thought I’d never find anything as cool as the star wars arcade machine I loved to play at the local arcade and here we are able to play games that completely blow away anything even in the arcades…I mean, seriously, if that isn’t a “wow” moment, then I don’t know what is.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Aside from the birth of my three children and four grand-children I just purchased a new laptop with Vista Home Premium and a 17″ screen. Booted it up and said “WOW”.
Ron
March 6th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Stand still, wait a moment, and look back: wow!
Whatever your life is like, I guarantee you that you will be amazed with what you become.
On a techpoint of view: wow, look at where we are!
We looked in awe at the hightech in the apollo’s. Now my mobilephone has more computing power! Wow!
When I grew up in the seventies, we had the only phone in the street. Now you’re surrounded by phones. Wow!
At highschool, pocketcalculators were forbidden, we had to do with log-tables and stuff. Now, a firstgrader will need a laptop. Wow!
My first job, as a writer of handbooks, was in a high tech office: we had a dedicated Wang wordprocessing system, with high-speed daisywheelprinters and chainforms. You would write a memo to a collegue, and send it by internal post. Now there’s email, internet, collobaration software, chatting, videoconferencing, offline and online meetings, the works. Wow!
This blog would be a magazine ten years ago. This reaction would have been a letter to the editor. Now I set up an account, look in my email for the pasword, and write an reaction. WOW!!!
March 6th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Not terribly impressive in today’s world, but it blew me away and made me say “wow” about five years ago.
I was having problems with trees in my back yard. They’d develop this stuff on their branches, then it would spread and over the course of about five years, the tree would die. I didn’t know what to do about it or who to call. I took a couple of pictures, found the e-mail address of a professor at the state college’s school of botany on the Internet, sent him a quick e-mail with the the photo attachments and he e-mailed me back within 48 hours with the name of the disease and how I could stop it. “Wow”, how cool is the internet where the everyday man has access to experts.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:00 am
My recent “wow” moment was actually a series of moments driving across Canada. If you live in Canada and haven’t driven across it’s great expanse, it’s definitely something you should try.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
I recently had a technology “wow” moment while I was talking to my cousin on the webcam.
I will frequently be chatting on yahoo messenger, on my laptop, while the baby falls asleep in my lap. it’s a little harder to type around the baby, but this is the sacrifice we make in the modern age for togetherness.
so because my arms are still at work, the baby settles himself into my lap like I’m a soft, preheated Baby Barcalounger. I have the webcam on, so it feels like I’m across the country from my favorite cousin. The baby is facing away from me, so I can’t see for myself when he’s fallen asleep and i can roll him into a more comfy situation on the sofa beside me. i ask my cousin, who’s looking at us both in the webcam. “excuse me, cousin” who is 3,000 miles away – “is the baby in my lap asleep yet? i’d like to lay him down before i develop carpal tunnel,” and she’ll say, ‘oh yeah – totally zonked,’ or ‘not yet – but that was a lonnnng blink…’ and then i’m informed.
wow, three cheers for technology!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I’m so impressed with today’s technology. My palm with GPS let’s me hook up to several satelites and guides me to where I want to go in my car. Wow!
March 7th, 2007 at 7:36 am
I’m wow’ed by the life I live. I have a wonderful wife. My job isn’t the best but it does have some benefits and it pays pretty well. All of my family is in good health. I live in one of the greatest cities in the world, New York City — albeit in a very small apartment.
One of the things that would top my “wow” life right now is being able to upgrade from XP to Vista.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
A few years ago in Banff, I would get occasional calls from a female friend at 2 or 3 in the morning. She would ask me to ride with her so she could talk for a while. We would spend hours just driving around or sitting in a mountain top parking lot with her pacing frantically around.
I was happy that she would choose me to share her problems with and didn’t mind the late nights but the WOW came a year or so later when her fiance confided that several of those early morning calls were made when she was planning to end her life and needed to say a few, last things.
I felt very small, very warm and VERY blessed.
March 8th, 2007 at 7:59 am
I’m wowed by the fact that when I was in college (which was right before the Internet was an everyday word and before everyone had their own personal computer), I was wowed by someone changing some display settings of a Windows 3 computer. Back then I thought if you knew how to do that you really knew computers. But now that I’ve studied and worked with computers, I’m wowed by the fact that I knew nothing back then.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
The first time I saw a computer as a kid..I was speechless…and then came WOWWWWWWWWWW
March 8th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
my dog sassy had died one summer when I was a kid. I and the rest of my family were all quite upset about it. My mother was traumatized over it that she vowed not to get another dog again. But then Christmas came and my little feet raced down the stairs to see all my gifts. We opened all our gifts; it was a good XMas that year. But then my dad got out one last gift. We all knew what it was with the noises that were coming from it and the little nose peeking out of the little holes in the box. It was a puppy! Nothing could take the place of Sassy but this little puppy sure did fill a void the whole family was feeling, especially me. I was awestruck – you can even say “wow”ed — by this family event. The togetherness we all felt that Christmas. The love and joy we felt when we got a new family dog.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:08 am
I have a wow moment everytime I have a meatball sub at my local pizzeria. Man, do they make the BEST subs!!
March 9th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I had a wow moment when I was over my friend’s house and he was showing me his new Vista computer. I got to play with it and was literally floored by what I saw. I loved the 3d effect of choosing an open window. I loved the translucent effects. And I loved playing texas hold’em. I could definitely see myself improving my game if I had vista ultimate.
It’s definitely not “THE” wow moment but it’s definitely a wow moment. If I actually wow vista copy I would definitely be having another wow moment!
March 9th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I’ve always wanted a sister, but as time went on, I realized that wasn’t going to happen. But then at the age of 21, I was told by parent that we were expecting another addition to the family. They had decided to adopt a little girl from china. (I guess there are plenty of unwanted girls in china due to the over population and the fact that the state only allows parents to have only 1 child and most want male babies.) Anyway, I was so excited to finally have a little sister. I guess my wow moment consisted on 2 moments: 1) the fact that I’d be getting a new sister, and 2) the fact that my parents are so giving that they’d want to help out a baby when they could be enjoying their prime of their lives.
March 10th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
The first time I went skiing, I would say was definitely an exciting and “wow” moment. Then I tried snow boarding and that was DEFINITELY not a wow moment. I couldn’t get a hang of it.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
this is probably not much but the first time I want down to Disney World, I was like “WOW”. It probably doesn’t take much to impress a kid, but it really did seem magical. I know that’s probably corny.
March 12th, 2007 at 7:26 am
i would really make me go WOW! if the love of my life said she loves me as well. i have been waiting for her to say it and i pray everyday that someday she will realize she loves me.
March 12th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
I’m generally a happy person; it’s my nature. I’ve had many wow moments. but I’ll pick one and say the first time I sled down a hill on a snowy day as a kid. What utter joy!
March 12th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
I had a a wow moment every time I look into my wife’s eyes and think how lucky I am
March 13th, 2007 at 6:34 am
I was wowed, the first time I saw the new Battlestar Gallactica. Some of the greatest TV out there, probably 2nd to Heroes.
March 13th, 2007 at 6:50 am
The first time I saw the grand canyon is when I wad a wow moment.
I’ve seen the canyon in pictures, movies, and the time that bobby and cindy got lost in it — so I didn’t think I would think much of a big hole in the ground. It was a family across country trip and I was taking a nap in the back of the car. I wok up all dreary eye and as the car made its way around the bend, all of a sudden there was the canyon. Who would have though somewthing so big could surprise you out of nowhere. I must say that pictures do not give it justice. It was a truely amazing sight.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I had a wow moment when my best friend asked me to be his best man at his wedding. I’ve known him since college and it really meant a lot that I could be part of his special day.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I had a wow moment as a kid. My local library was having a fair of sorts and they had a jar of jelly beans where you had to guess the closest amount in order to get a prize. Well I got the closest amount and I wow an E.T. themed pillow. I’ve never won anything before that and never since. I still have that pillow t this day because it reminds me of the thrill of winning something, even something as silly as an ET pillow. Well if I won this contest, then that would be the 2nd thing I’ve ever won.
March 14th, 2007 at 5:35 am
I had a wow moment when I read that I could possibly win a copy of vista. I’ve been drooling over vista at the stores and I’d really have a wow moment if I won.
March 14th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
When vista was launched I went to my local best buy and there was steve ballmer giving a little pep rally. That was pretty cool. He didn’t get as excited as some of those videos on the net, but he was still pretty excited about vista. I hadn’t expected him to be there so that was a pretty wow moment. If I win I hope to bve as excited as Vista as Steve was that day.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
The first time I heard about the Dell 3007WFP 30″ widescreen display was a wow moment for me. I first saw the apple 30″ monitor and was majorly impressed, but it was far out of my pricer range: $3000 at the time. But I knew Dell would eventually make one; and they did. But I held off in buying one until the price went down a bit. And it did; considerably. I was about to buy it until I heard about a new update to that display, the 3007WFP-HC. I waited for that display to come out and finally it’s here. I think today may have been the 1st day that the monitor was available on the US Dell site. I’ll probably wait a little bit more, but I’m finally going to make my purchase real soon. What would be sweeter is if I could win and view Vista on this display.
March 14th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
I had a wow moment when I read this post and I thought I might have a possibility of owning vista. I was going to wait for a few months before upgrading to vista, and even then I probably would have only upgraded to the home edition that includes media center. but I’m hopeful that if I enter this contest I can enjoy the full glory of vista ultimate.
March 15th, 2007 at 9:26 am
“An experience in your life that has made you go Wow”?
Backpacking across Europe in College with a bunch of friends. I think that was really the first time I was away without any “adult” supervision. It made me realize that I’ve become an adult and can take care of myself – well except maybe for the occasional laundry trips back to my parents because my apartment didn’t have a washing machine.
“Something that would make you say Wow”?
Winning Vista Ultimate of course.
March 15th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I had a wow moment a few days ago when I found out the yesterday was pi day: in celebration of the mathematical constant because March 14th written out in numbers looks like pi: 3/14 = 3.14… I’ve decoided when I found out about this that I would celebrate this day under my household. I’ve decided to celebrate my new family tradition, our family will eat nothing but food that is created as a pie: i.e. quiche, pizza, chicken pot pie, and of course any kind of dessert pie imaginable, etc. I say this is a wow moment, because I’ve never started a family tradition and I think this would be a fun and slightly educational day for my new family.
March 16th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Well, here’s my “wow” moment. I have three Jack Dempsey fish that lived in my 40 gallon fish take for 4 years. One of my Jack Dempsey was twice as big as the other two, so he will get most of the food and territory. Last summer, one of the small Jack Dempsey mysteriously died and I was afraid that the other small one might share the same faith. A month later, I notice this “black haze” that was floating near the small Jack Dempsey. At first I thought it was algae or water parasites floating, but upon closer inspection it was actually hundreds of baby Jack Dempsey! At this moment I said to myself, “wow, that is a lot of babies”.
Right now, I still have less than a hundred that is still living in the tank right. They are growing fairly fast and now my fish tank is starting to get crowded.
That is my “wow” moment.
March 16th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
WOW!
The first time I held my baby! WOW! this is real!
I don’t think anything will ever come anywhere close to that.
March 17th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Last Christmas my wife promised to buy me a new graphics card: any card I wanted. I just selected one this past week with a great price. I naturally selected the nVidia 88800 GTX. Wow, isn’t my wife great!
Now I just need a great OS to go along with it and I’ll be set. Now that nVidia has issued vista drivers I should be good to go.
March 18th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Wow moment: The first time I kissed my wife. Nothing can beat that until I guess we have kids.
March 18th, 2007 at 10:53 am
I had a wow moment when I took my folks out to dinner to celebrate my very first job.
March 18th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
It happened the first time I bought stocks. Within a few months, I had made a few thousand dollars. That was a good wow moment. My 2nd wow moment happened when within a few weeks the market turned and I lost a few thousand dollars. That was the bad kind of “wow”.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:34 am
One of my earliest wow moments happened when I climbed a tree as a kid. I climbed so high that everyone literally looked like ants — okay, maybe I’m exaggerating — maybe everyone more looked like matchbox cars. Nevertheless, I climbed really high. I wasn’t scared or anything, but looking back at it now, perhaps I should have been.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:00 am
my wow moment happened when I asked my wife to marry me.
When my wife and I were first dating, I told her the legend of how my family originally got their last name. It was the story that was told for generations; the one that my father told me and his father told him. I won’t bore you with the details but it included a boat race where my ancestor ultimately had to cut off his hand and throw it to shore in order to be the first one to have his hand touch dry land. Don’t worry; I tell it much better than that when I have the time, and it’s an okay story to tell on a first date. My wife seemed to like it anyway.
In any case, when I was done telling my story I asked her if her family had a similar story since, like my last name, her last name was also made up of English words. She said she didn’t have a story, so I took it upon myself to make one up on the spot. It included a princess, a kingdom-wide challenge, and a happy ending with a proposal from a peasant. (Don’t worry, this story didn’t include anyone cutting anything off of themselves.)
My wife seemed to like it. Cut away some years later — and I’m ready to make my own proposal to her. Since I am an artist, I thought the best way to propose to her was to make a painting. So I decided to paint a scene from the story I told her so long ago. (The one with the princess, not the guy who cut off his hand.) By this point, my wife probably forgot about the story I had told her, but once she saw the painting, it would all come back to her.
After I was done painting, I planned the entire day for my wife. I wanted to make the day so special for her. We went to an art gallery and was looking at the various paintings. As a little game, we made up stories for the paintings to give the paintings some meaning. Then we came to my painting up on the wall. (Earlier that week, I had called this art gallery, and told them how I was going to propose, and they agreed to place my painting on their wall for the event.) I proceeded to tell my wife that the painting looked awfully like the story I had told her so long ago. I proceeded to retell it to her, and then when I was all done telling it, I fell to one knee and presented her with a ring that I had especially designed for her, which looked like the ring that was told in the story. My wife started to weep with joy.
In a few more months, we’ll be celebrating our 1 year anniversary, and I’ll be planning something equally as romantic and “wow” inspiring.
I hope to win the Vista copy because I am a graphic artist and I think the version control feature that Vista has would would be EXTREMELY useful.
March 29th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
When I buy a new gadget on ebay. I go to the mailbox to find the box and rip it open and say WOW!
March 30th, 2007 at 6:35 am
I had a bunch of wow moments when I joined the army. It brings a lot of satisfaction knowing that you’re doing something good to help your country and the world. I know there’s a lot of debate about our troop deployment, but I can attest that we’re actually doing something good. I’ve seen it first hand with two tours of duty: one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq. Now that I’m back home, I’ve landed a great job at a great company partly because what the army taught me. I’m a much more confident and able person than I was a short few years ago when I joined the military. For all of those reason and more, I say “Wow”.