Thursday, September 10, 2009

Old School vs. New School

New Thing #9: Sending a Telegram

The internet has killed so many things, including old fashion communication -(STOP)- It's pretty hard nowadays to even find a company that still does telegrams
-(STOP)- So hard in fact, that I had to find a company that was located in Australia to do it -(STOP)- Okay so truthfully, it's not 100% old school - you type up what you want on the telegram on this website and they show you a preview of what it looks like -(STOP)- They'll also email you a jpg of the actual telegram -(STOP)- And it only cost me $4.70 USD -(STOP)- And if you haven't guessed it by now, every time you type in a "period" it inserts the stop message -(STOP)- But I love the fact that it's real old fashioned snail mail...and it's going to take 10+ days to get to the States -(STOP)- Doh -(STOP)-


New Thing #10: Logitech Ultra Thin Illuminated Keyboard

Okay first and foremost, I'm a huge Logitech fanboy. HUGE. All of my computer peripherals are from Logitech. So of course when I saw that this particular keyboard was on sale, I had to jump on it. And I have to say, I'm in love. It's a mind boggling 9.3mm thick but types with a crisp clean feel of a top of the line laptop keyboard. And they keys are backlit which makes typing in the dark a breeze. Did I need a new keybaord? Hell no! I have a perfectly good G15 that's now sitting in my closet. Impulse buys ftw! [Insert slight brain fart here] Hmm...while I love typing on my new keyboard, I'm not particularly happy with this post. It's not as fluid or funny or creative as I'd hoped. I feel like it's missing some oomph, some mojo, you know, some sort of essence...bah whatever, I love my new toy :D



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