Saturday did some running around with the little guy - first to Krispy Kreme, then got the car washed (right before it rained) and a new antenna (metal fatigue snapped the thing off where it screwed into the socket.) and a couple of new keyboards. He saw this thing called the 'Virtually Indestructable Keyboard', and thought it was real neat. I bought one for his system, and I got an Inland RF Keyvoard and Mouse. I had a mini-sized EL keyboard, but the letters were wearing off the keys and I'd replaced it with an IConcepts Inferno keyboard, but I wanted something a bit less 'clicky'. I bought an Inland U-Touch RF Keyboard as a replacement. (Hey, it even had a wireless mouse with it!)
Bluntly, the thing wasn't a good example of Inland's quality control system. I hard a hard time getting it to bond with my system, and the kkkkkkkkkkeeeeybbbbbbbbbbrd would stu-stu-stutter and ms smpl letters. And did I mention the " " key wasn't working? (The '1' key, along with others) And a lot of those that did work, occasionally toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooook off on their own. The darn thing was free with it's letters, I'll grant it that much. I returned it today. It was cheap, but it wasn't worth the price. I make sufficent typos without the keyboard helping out.
Last night we (The little guy and I) went to see "Zoom". It was a good tounge-in-cheek send-up of the 'Team of Superheros' genre, and well worth the money. I recommend it. Today we went to see 'Barnyard", which was a... um... remake of "The Lion King" with cows. It had some funny spots, but I don't see it lasting long in the theaters at all.
And tomorrow, Third Grade starts for the little guy. Wow, the time's sure passing.
J.
Comments (3)
They grow up so fast!
School already, huh?
Wow, where did all that time go?
Have fun and keep enjoying those moments, Jerry,
'cause the little guy will be in High school before you know it.
Posted by Ben USN (ret) | August 15, 2006 7:09 AM
Posted on August 15, 2006 07:09
Yes, saw that roll-up-able keyboard way back in ... 1994? 95? Originally meant for medical or industrial envionments where being able to have a keyboard with *no moving parts* or having air go through it was a big plus.
Fast forward to this year at NIH. Stayed there a couple of times once they got their computers installed (little netbox POS but easy to manage). Did they use these wonderful, flexible keyboards that could be disinfected? No, they bought crappy kensington keyboards in bulk and just dispose of them via incineration or autoclave.
So, you get a 'use-once' disposable keyboard. Still, it does work while you have it, while those flexy kind.... well... hope that '1' key isn't necessary to save the ship...
Posted by ajacksonian | August 17, 2006 6:11 PM
Posted on August 17, 2006 18:11
AJacksonian -
The Inland RF Keyboard was the one with the bum "1" key - and I took the thing back. The girl at the counter just shook her head and said nothing. I got the impression she'd seen a lot of them.
So far the Flexiboard's doing pretty well.
J.
Posted by JLawson | August 17, 2006 9:11 PM
Posted on August 17, 2006 21:11