Just wait for ethereum to hit the exchanges (if it ever does) and wait for it to dump, buying ethercoin at these prices is ludicrous.
Not any more ludicrous than BTC or LTC prices. I love the ETH roadmap, the plan, and the ease of use of the platform.
(e.g. trying to do a smart contract in Bitcoin is a freaking pain in da butt)
Love this visual tool by the way (check out the examples):
http://etherscripter.com/Say what you will but ETH is a game changer. The only issue I have with it is the gas cost and scalability. But reading the blog articles it sounds like they'll solve all of that much quicker than Bitcoin can decide, should they increase the block size or not.