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Brookstone Boogie Board Awesomeness
While pretending to buy something at Brookstone from the mall (I really just wanted to sit in those sweet massage chairs)!
….I saw they carried this little thing called the Boogie Board. It’s essentially an LCD writing tablet. But it’s not a computer screen…in fact it uses zero power except when erasing the slate.
It does nothing but let you write on it, then erase. I played with it from one second and immediately knew I would be buying it!
I always carry around one these standard journals for keeping my notes:
…but this little board allows me to graph out temporary thoughts, doodle, or just things I don’t need to keep written down. When I DO happen to write something on it that matters, I snap a picture of it with my phone. It’s crude, but it works.
No color options, no spot eraser, and you can even use your fingernail to write (or any make-shift stylus like a pen cap).
I often jot on it in the mornings. Even though I always plan my to-do lists the night before, I tend to jot down a few random thoughts on this when I wake up…just to get the day started.
…but mostly I use it to doodle! I learned how to draw these weird house-looking-things from Commander Mark when I was in elementary school:
The erasing feature is really neat….and I can see this concept being developed into many other neato products. All you do is push a button, and the LCD screen “wipes” like this:
I bought the Brookstone Boogie Board a little before the Christmas rush for $19.99…but now everywhere I look they’re $39.99. Guess they got popular QUICK!
I Love Klipsch Speakers
Back in late high school and early college I started a couple of businesses and they all made some modest degree of money. The funny thing was the money went to my single student checking account…and I didn’t know what to do with it!
It just accumulated. I didn’t understand it was like cash.
Then one day I discovered ordering stuff online. I could pay for stuff online with that number it said on my bank statement. SWEET!
One of my very first purchases was high quality speakers. I’m a bit of an audiophile and love high quality sound.
I researched every computer speaker out there and ended up buying the Klipsch Promedia 4.1 sound system which was the best (and most expensive) set of computer speakers I found.
I….was…..BLOWN AWAY by them.
It truly was one of the most satisfying purchases I ever made. THX certified, 400 watts, BOOMING sub woofer (but not just booming…but REALISTIC bass)….the list went on. Watching movies and listening to music on this audio system in a tiny dorm room was the coolest damn thing in the world to me.
I had all four satellite speakers setup in my tiny dorm and the huge sub woofer setup under my desk (when turned up, it would rattle my plastic desk so violently I couldn’t use my computer mouse)!
I actually found pictures of my old setup. You can see only one speaker in this setup (and apparently someone played a little joke in the top-right corner):
More speakers lining the room. The funny thing was even the small 40 watt system I had before was more than enough to fill these small dorms with loud music. But going 10X more was WAY more fun ;-)
It was kind of funny looking through these old pictures, here was our door (yes, I know I spelled “weird” wrong):
About 9 years later, my poor Klipsch speakers have finally run their course. Something is wrong with the amplifier and it doesn’t seem easily fixable.
Anyhow…usually I’d be pissed something I bought is no longer working. But not these.
I’d gladly pay $400+ again for the pleasure of listening to these. I loved those speakers.
So the last several places I’ve lived I only used two of the satellite speakers, and the bass never gets turned all the way. The system is powerful enough to keep all the settings at half and still sound incredible. So I just bought a new set of them, except it has only 2 satellite speakers, and the system is also wireless (so I can play music from my laptop and have it stream directly to the speakers).
Cheers to the speakers that have caused so very, very, very many of my neighbors to complain, call the cops and make them just downright frustrated to live next to me.