Scott Adams, the guy who writes the infamous Dilbert comic strip also has a very intriguing blog that I highly recommend. In fact, do you see it sitting over there in my blogroll? Yeah. I thought so.

The other day he wrote about technology that is “Too Frickin’ Cool”

Now for an exciting round of what I call “too frickin’ cool.” The way this is played is that you describe some technology that is so futuristic, so Star Trekish, you can hardly believe that you are using it. When you are done describing this technology, you must be so impressed with your own story that you pause and punctuate it be saying, “Too frickin’ cool.” Optionally, you can add a “dude” or a “seriously” to further elaborate your point.

At the end of his post, he challenged his readers to post about their Too Frickin’ Cool technology in his comments feed. I had to think about this for a few minutes before I could think of the answer for me.

How’s this: I’m 400 miles from my house. I’m sitting in a hotel, surfing the vast Interet over a wireless broadband connection on my trusty laptop, when I suddenly get the urge to see what the weather looks like at home. I type in my special URL and am instantly presented with a live video feed from a camera that is looking out of my home office window in real time. Without getting out of my bed, I can see that the neighbor has mowed his lawn and that it is currently raining, which is ruining the sealcoat that he just put on his driveway. Too frickin’ cool. Dude. Seriously!

What is too frickin’ cool to you?

–Pete