I bought three things. One of which I am very satisfied with. One of which I am just sorta fine with. The other one... Well, it isn't useful to me yet.
The edition of Digital Life we got during the Chinese New Year week featured a bunch of gadgets which I thought were really cool. Specifically, this:
The X-Mini Capsule Speaker.
Mind you, when they say "mini", they mean it. That picture makes it look really huge, but really. When I saw it, I was surprised. From the article in Digital Life, I figured it was about two and a half, maybe three inches across. it's really actually only about half that.
It's really cute. Yeah. The design was one thing, but being an audiophile like me(shut up, Leonard), the quality of music it produced was a more important factor. And woah, it was brilliant. The clarity was superb. Many, many, many times better than the speaker you get on your Walkman phone. So $35 dollars well spent.
Crud. My internet thingy is giving me problems. It just disconnected me. And I can't log in to MSN. Damnit. Singnet, you tricked me.
Other than that fantabulous speaker, I also got a nice new headset for my computer use. See, there was a problem with my old one. A piece of junk I procured from Popular Bookstore. They had this genius idea of putting the microphone right next to the speaker. This basically meant that everything that came out of the speaker also went into the microphone. This wasn't a problem until I tried making internet calls. The problem, as you may already have deduced, involved the person on the other side hearing himself twice; once when he spoke, and again a second later when he hears it through my microphone again. Which, apparently, was really annoying. So I stopped using that.
Yeah, so that's pretty much why I spent $30 on a new headset today. Plus it looks nice.
I also got a new mouse. Argh. That was a mistake. It was too small for my hand. The response was good, the accuracy and all... But it just didn't fit my hand. That wasn't good. However, not to worry. I can still use this new mouse for a laptop. When I get one.
If I get one.
So yeah. That's how I spent a hundred buckaroos today. Remind me never to buy a mouse without feeling it properly first.
Ah, and I just found out that 12/08 has been cubing... Yes. It's working. Just a little more time... Wait, did I just say that out loud? I mean, look over there! I'm changing the subject!
Yeah, donuts. They're nice. You should eat them.
-Joe