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Yippy skippy! My little toy arrived last night, the Alphasmart Neo—either a huge, honking PDA or a wee bit of a computing device. It's so cute and lightweight. The keyboard is about the size of a small laptop, I think, and the LCD display is quite clear and readable. It even has a primitive spellcheck and autosave so if the batteries go or you accidentally turn it off, the file doesn't go away. Definitely plain Jane, but definitely all I need to write on lunch and not have to do it longhand, and a fraction of the cost of a laptop. Which is a good thing for a person trying to get out of debt.

("What the hell is it?" as my boss says.
"An anti-debt machine," I answers.)

(Thanks, Vern!)

We'll see if my word count actually improves. Sometimes it ain't the longhand, it's the brain that's the problem.

http://www.alphasmart.com/Retail/


Miscellaneous

I leave you with this irrelevant paraphrase of a very old joke:

A: May I be brutally frank?
B: If you wear black leather. But my name's not Frank.

Date: 2007-01-10 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magicnoire.livejournal.com
You're welcome!

Date: 2007-01-10 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merebrillante.livejournal.com
Yay for new toys!

And here's the punchline from a really filthy nun joke:

One more outburst like that and I'm putting the seats back on!

Date: 2007-01-11 03:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kmkibble75.livejournal.com
hooray for the Neo.

I will now avoid making Matrix references.

Date: 2007-01-11 03:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] java-fiend.livejournal.com
Awesome! Enjoy the new toy!!!

Date: 2007-01-11 06:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] everyonesakitty.livejournal.com
YAY! I'm so excited for you! Here's hoping you get TONS of words every day at lunch!

Date: 2007-01-11 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kmkibble75.livejournal.com
damn! over two years of lunch hours!

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