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Our new Kindle 2 eBook Reader has just arrived!

May 11, 2010 by Chris

Our new Kindle 2 eBook Reader showed up a day early and I couldn’t be more excited! Well truth be told, if a 1957 Strat was delivered in place of the Kindle then I guess I’d be REALLY EXCITED! Sorry, just had to get that one out of my head.

After taking our dog Midnight out for her morning walk and just before giving her, her breakfast a UPS driver knocked on the door sending Midnight out of her mind. All I was thinking was how to keep her from waking my wife up with her barking! As I opened the door she ran out to investigate and welcome the driver with lots of licks, I actually know him from work. After all the commotion had ended he handed me a package and right there I knew that it was the kindle!

So my wife just got up and we opened the package. The packaging was easy to open and quite sturdy looking. The screen of our new Kindle instructed us to turn it on and the welcome screen showed up after taking a few seconds to load up the program.

kindle 2 eBook reader

I picked it up and I was the first one to turn a page on the Kindle – kind of cool! This thing reminds me of something from Star Track! The reader is set up for easy use if your a left or right handed readers. My wife then hit the button Aa that is directly to the right of the spacer bar on the Kindle’s keyboard. It activated a menu that allows you to initiate the Text-to-Speech software. You have the option to use a male or female voice. The default setting is set to use a male voice. Damn it sounds a lot like the genius Stephen Hawkings!

Later on today we are off to an appointment and hopefully we can download one of the new books that my wife had uploaded to her laptop yesterday before leaving. I know this is not music related post but when we start becoming more literate with this thing, we’ll try all the music related options that comes with it. Wish us luck!

Keep on Kindlin’





Filed Under: Entertainment, General, Health and Fitness, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: Amazon, background music, books, eBook, ebook reader, internet, kindle, kindle 2, mp3, music, new toy, read, reader, text to speech, ups

A gift from a volunteer at work!

May 1, 2010 by Chris

I got a gift from a volunteer at work quite a while ago for Christmas present!

She was cleaning out her house during a renovation at home and she didn’t know what to do with it, so she knew I’d get a kick out of it. It was a great gift and I just wanted to show you.

It’s a blow up guitar and I let some kids who are having difficulties coping when they wake up from an operation try it out and it really works.

At another time, she gave me a really neat pack of Guitar Picks for my birthday, she thought that I’d love it and I sure did!

funny blow up guitar

Thanx Connie!

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Equipment, General, guitars, Home and Lifestyle, My Experiences, The Neighborhood Tagged With: blow up guitar, Funny, gift, guitar, Humor, musician

The new Brantford SJC School Band

March 13, 2010 by Chris

I attended St. John’s College high school during the early to mid 80’s and I was in the school band but these kids take the cake! I wonder if this is a credited coarse band? Just kiddin’ … I think?

I came across this video that someone posted up on Youtube and I am very impressed. The sound and visual effects that these player’s have was certainly not around when I went there. I wonder if they realize how lucky they are to be growing up during these highly advanced technical times?

So hats off to the school band and I’d love to hear from anyone out there that was in it. Enjoy, I sure did.

Also check out their version of Time as well.

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Bands, Brantford, Concerts, Entertainment, Musicians, Songs to Play, Video Tagged With: 2009, Brantford, concert, dark side of the moon, pink floyd, sjc, SJC tribute band, tribute

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