Kindle

I finally scraped enough dough together to purchase myself an Amazon Kindle. I'm excited. My house has a few bookshelves overflowing with books, and more books are stuffed into boxes. The Kindle will let me continue to buy new books without having to fill up my house with bookshelves. Plus, it's pretty convenient that I can buy books whenever and wherever I want. As a bonus, books are about half price on the Kindle as well.

I guess they are on back order right now, but I'll try it out and write up a review when it comes in.

Neverlate Executive alarm clock by American Innovative

My wife bought me this for Christmas. (Sort of, long story.) The first one we got was nice, until the second week when the light would flicker brighter and then go completely black. There was nothing I could do to the clock to turn the light back on until it decided to turn itself back on, so as a clock, it was pretty useless.

American Innovative was nice enough to replace it for free, and they shipped one out without requiring that we return the defective one. That's great, except the replacement seems to have one brightness setting: Holy-shit-where-are-my-sunglasses? Rather than screw with it, I think I am going to just buy some dark, transparent tape and tone down the brightness a bit.

For those of you who don't want to ruin a $70 alarm clock, here is what it looks like disassembled.