"It was also something of a postmodern moment. I had done this, at least in part, so that I could write about sitting in Denny's while reading Ehrenreich's first-person account of attempting to make ends meet as a waitress at a restaurant very much like Denny's -- on a device no Denny's waitress, presumably, could afford." All I can say is that I'm glad my mother taught me not to be an impulse-shopper...via <a href = "http://www.slashdot.org">slashdot</a>.