Carl's Notes

So, the glacier finally melted!

Today the second part of my Chapters order has arrived (Fiendish Sudoku) as well as half of my ThinkGeek order.
(technically it was supposed to be the whole order, but the Colour-changing LED Light bulb with remote was missing, though all the paperwork claimed it should be there. A quick call to their helpline alerted them to the issue and they'll be sending me out a new one soon)

The part I did get was their ProMini BT-Touch, a presentation BlueTooth keyboard/touchpad combo.
I've actually typed most of this entry out with this keyboard, and am quite happy with it so far.
I expect I'll be able to use this more later in life when I actually get a job where I do presentations, but it'll be fairly handy even now.

The official website claims it can be used for games, but I don't think you could use it for much more than word-games.
Maybe I need more practice with it first...

So, apparently you can buy prepaid Visa cards from the Vancity chain of banks here, and the fee is a pretty reasonable two dollars.

There's this really, really geeky website called ThinkGeek full of geeky tools, toys, caffeinated candy, shirts, and, well, lots of other stuff.

As my budget was rather small ($70 CAN), and shipping by either method (UPS or DHL) was almost the same price as the items themselves, I could only go up to about $30 US (trying to keep under so I don't have problems with the exchange rate).

Lots of stuff I'd like is rather expensive (over $50 US, though the stuff I'd really like is over $100 US), so I had to stick to small, inexpensive stuff.
Fortunately, their inexpensive stuff is still interesting:

• Micro Spy Remote - Control a large variety of TVs with a very small remote.
• ThinkGeek Slide Rule - I was feeling rather geeky.
• Wire Glue - For gluing wires together.
• Tool Logic LED Tech Light - Mostly for the hat-clip light feature, but you can never have too many tools, right?

My order should arrive sometime around Wednesday or Thursday, according to the shipping information, and my order has just been assembled, so it should be picked up on Monday.