Tactiva
The TactaPad is a touch pad for your computer that lets you manipulate things on-screen with both hands. Check out the demo video.
Asymptomatic
There must be intelligent life down here
Trying To Buy a Treo 650
Had I mentioned that I got a new phone? Probably not.
I was driving around with Pat on Monday, not really sure what we should have been doing. We stopped at Circuit City to check out prices for replacing our mom’s TV, which had recently starting behaving oddly. After reviewing their horribly overpriced flatscreens, I wandered over to the in-store Verizon Wireless kiosk.
We goofed around the the Treo 650 that they had affixed to the counter, and compared it to Pat’s luxury phone. It turns out that Pat’s phone has a flash that will render you blind when it takes your picture - but only if you put your eye lens directly on the flash bulb and then poke your eye out with a pencil. So I suppose that I could say that the flash is pretty ineffective.
Anyhow, I started talking to the guy at the counter and we reviewed my account. It seems that I had been under contract for 2 years, and Verizon was offering me a $100 incentive to renew. I asked about the rate plans, and altough it seemed that I couldn’t reduce my monthly fees (already pretty high for both our phones) I would be getting more minutes than before. I knew that I couldn’t sell the change to Berta without keep ing at least the same monthly rate (and thought better to to try to lower it if I could) so I made sure that this was the case. The sales guy consulted with his manager and that was the consensus.
I’ve never had any real problems with Verizon, so it seemed like a good deal, however, the rest of the day would prove out whether Verizon was really going to be a problem for me.
Waymarks Internet Solutions
Michele at Waymarks Internet Solutions uses Less Than Slash to code HTML. Neat!
Le Zoo
This time, the zoo was more driving around on the expressway than behind the bars.
We gathered up the kids and my mom and sped out to the Philadelphia Zoo on Sunday. There was a sort of time constraint, since I would be picking up Pat from 30th Street Station at 4pm, so we left around noon. The drive took a couple of hours because they were doing some crazy construction on the expressway. Three lanes of traffic merging into one - amazing. Just before we hit the traffic the Low Fuel light came on, and I taunted Mom with it the rest of the ride. “Low Fuel” in Berta’s car means “3 gallons left”, so there was plenty of gas to get us to the zoo.
Certified 100% Virus-Free
I found this floppy when moving things around for Saturday’s garage sale.
I believe that it is devoid of viruses. If not, they’ve been rendered completely ineffectual by the nametag sticker that is stuck to the disk’s underside.