But will he be thanking Mom in 10 years?
My ambivalence about the tax that President Obama is considering levying on the nation's top earners, in order to finance health-care reform, has been somewhat alleviated: via Gizmodo comes word of a mother in Williamsville, NY, who had a 98-inch television mounted in the ceiling of her teenage son's bedroom.
The unnamed young man is a gamer, but his real passion is evidently "viewing and editing his own videos." Because of the weight of the screen and the television's image-projector -- this is no ordinary plasma or LCD device -- the ceiling in question had to be reframed and reinforced.
The project earned Patti Deni, the mother in question, finalist status in the 2009 Home of the Year Awards, handed out by Electronic House magazine. Gizmodo, however -- never mind the site's commenters -- was somewhat uncharitable in its remarks about the possible effects of this gift on the young man's future physical fitness and social skills.
