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Gazelle: Buy and Sell Electronics, Sell Cell Phone, Recycle Electronics

My son, Alex, sent me a link to A Site That Pays You to Recycle on the New York Times gadget blog. Heaven knows I have lots of gadgets that should probably be recycled. This might be an easy way to accomplish it.

What Is Gazelle?

We provide an easy, fast, and safe way for you to sell electronics and recycle electronics. When you sell cell phones, mp3 players, laptops, or other gadgets to us, you'll earn cash and help save the environment by keeping old, used gadgets out of landfills. You get green while being green! The bottom line is you want to sell electronics and we want to buy electronics. A perfect match!

via gazelle.com

 

Apple's Tablet: Before the Announcement

My best friend and partner in many crimes, John Munsch, dropped into IM and asked if I cared about the release of the Apple Tablet on Monday. The thread made both of us laugh, so I'm posting it.

John: So, apparently Apple is finally going to roll out their long awaited tablet on Monday. Do you care?

Don: Yeah. Because we'll have to support it. But, I'm really hoping it's revolutionary. If it's not then, no.

John: My best guess is that it will have a large number of gestures it recognizes and it will be very lightweight and whatnot. I'm not sure what they could do that would actually be revolutionary.

Don: well. Maybe it'll be a 3D projector so you don't actually have to hold the tablet. Just set it on a table and do everything hands off.

That would kick ass.

even better, if you could then install it on a vest to your chest so you got a 3D heads up augmented reality view of the world around you....muy awesome

So I expect disappointment.

John: LOL Yeah. I think you should.

 

Tech: An Unladen Laptop

I stopped by Best Buy to see if they had a laptop for a friend. On the bright side, they were sold out of most of the reasonable models. The blue shirt staff was very helpful but what failed to notice was a clipboard carrier standing beside them.

She asked if I needed help, I replied, "No, you're sold out of models that I would consider". I thought that was the end of the discussion, as I turned to leave she pounced. Keep in mind I normally try and consider what I'm about to say to insure that the message gets delivered properly.

As I was turning she blurted, "Could you tell me why you were going to get the computer we're sold out of."

I looked at her and and slowed my speech down as slow as I could and replied, "because I had purchased a similar one before and it worked well enough".

"When you purchased that one was in because of the bundled Anti-virus and office software"?

Which is apparently the code phase for turning off my filters and contorting my face into a mask of horror, I blurted out, "O Gawd NO, I want that crap off of there."

As I turned to leave, I glanced over at one of the Blue Shirts who had a knowing apologetic look on her face, that I read as "yeah we've told her that too".