Or can’t afford the portable hard drive, or both? This auction, which benefits the nonprofit Project Cicero—they donate books to NYC classrooms and libraries, so it’s certainly worth giving them money anyway—might help you get over those nagging feelings of inadequacy and despair. Things you can win, and I’m quoting: New Yorker Festival V.I.P. packages; autographed books by New Yorker writers; your own custom cartoon by a New Yorker cartoonist; a night on the town, including tickets to a Broadway show; etc. It (the auction, not your despair, which may be longer-lasting) goes till September 22.
Looks like the bidding’s going to be heartbeat-quickening—at press time, the New Yorker Geek Pack (“$250 GEEK SQUAD Gift Certificate and ‘The Complete New Yorker’ DVD-ROM collection plus a Sony VAIO laptop computer!”) was going for $719. Better get in there!