rise and shine

Friday, aug. 18, 2006   |   0 comments

Those of you who own a SidekickII know that its one fatal flaw (besides the lame rubber keyboard, which completely detaches one month after your service contract expires so you’re forced to live with it like that, just flapping in the wind) is its “dying sound.” When the battery really starts to go, the machine emits this startlingly tragic sound — a cross between a cat in heat and “wilting Pacman” — and it is so, so sad! It also plays three separate times, spaced a few minutes apart, before finally shutting down. So if you’re, say, lying in bed at 6AM and it starts crying in the other room, you can try to ignore it, try to pretend you’re not going to wake up, but by the third time it keens, that’s it, you’re awake. Here! Here’s your charge chord! Happy? And then you plug it in and it spends the next hour contentedly nursing on the electricity. Look! It IS happy.

I am very happy that I remembered to buy coffee this week.