Thursday, February 2, 2012

Good morning crew,

So I recently bought a new computer for home. The old one was a six-year-old desk top, which in computer years is ancient. It crapped out last year, and I put off the expense of a new one as long as I could. Actually, that wasn't as difficult as you might think. Since I'm on a computer all day long at work I mostly used my home computer for gaming, and I don't have as much time for that as I used to.

But finally I broke down and sprang for a new one. What really motivated me was Best Buy ran a special promotion for 18 months of zero interest credit, so I figured the time was ripe.

Ol' Mason, my computer consultant, talked me into a Lenovo laptop with all sorts of memory, processing speed, graphics capacity and some magical thing called Core i7. Whatever it is it is supposed to be able to play pretty much any computer game out there.

So now that I have this brand new, state-of-the-art computing machine I have been looking into some new gadgets for it. For example, did you know there is a new, massive capacity storage device called a flash drive? Apparently it has replaced the three-and-a-half inch floppy.

It is so small and convenient you can carry a 4GB drive around on your wrist in a little silicone bracelet. You can get one as cheap as 20 bucks. Imagine carrying around 800 songs or hundreds of images in a bracelet. One of the girls here in the office is diabetic and she keeps her complete medical records on one.

I thought that was pretty brilliant.

If you want to take a look we have this exact product on our site. Just click the link below and you can watch Anisa describe it in detail.

See the Koi 4GB Memory Band Here

Let me know what you think!

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"A student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison spent 90 days technology free. He went without a cell phone, Facebook, Twitter, or any social media of any kind. And you know what really improved? His driving!" -Jay Leno

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"Studies are showing that Republican candidates are buying a lot of their ad time on the Weather Channel. You can tell because last night, the weatherman blamed the cold front on immigration and gay marriage." -Conan O'Brien

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"A law enforcement agency in Florida revealed that it paid 15 employees to get drunk to see if its breathalyzer tests worked. In related news, it looks like I'm gettin' a second job!" -Jimmy Fallon

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Manning the computer help desk for the local school district was my first job. And though I was just an intern, I took the job very seriously. But not every caller took me seriously.

"Can I talk to a real person?" a caller asked.

"I am real," I said.

"Oh, I'm sorry," the caller said. "That was rude of me. What I meant to say was, could I talk to someone who actually knows something?"


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Heading down the interstate, our car passed through a huge swarm of gnats so dense that their bodies made popping noises as they hit the windshield. "I can't get over how loud they are," my wife said.

"Well, we are hitting them at 65 miles an hour," I pointed out.

Her reply left me speechless. "There's no way bugs can fly that fast!"