Recently I took my girlfriend’s son to buy a large screen, flat panel TV so he could play his computer games with life size characters. The deal was if he saved half of the cost his mother and I would make up the other half. If you’re new to this computer game thing, it’s visual crack for these kids.

Off we went to the store where he had scouted out the best price on the unit he wanted. Wow, these things are expensive. As he stared in wonder at this digital behemoth, the sales person dutifully came up to close the deal.

As is always the case, numbers started flying back and forth between the sales person and myself; cables, warranties, delivery…