Stuff Day

Stuff is awesome. This morning I awoke with my Mom hand delivering my new phone. It's a Samsung A737. When I first tried it, I thought that there was a problem with the phone. It turned out, embarrassingly, that I just put the SIM card in backwards. Oops. Anyway, it does in fact work fine, and I like it so far. It's a slider with a 1.3MP camera (not that I use the camera very often). It has pretty good call quality and since it was a free upgrade from AT&T I can't complain about the price. Well, I suppose it did cost be $18 for the "upgrade fee," but since everyone gets ripped off by the upgrade fee I feel like it's a deal to get a free phone.

Later in the day I received my monstrous 24" monitor. Yeah. I practically stole it for $225. I had a 21" CRT monitor before this and because I didn't want to get a screen that was smaller I was holding out for a 24" LCD. It's not smaller, I can tell you that. It's about a 3/4" bigger vertically and 5" wider. I set my screen resolution to 1900x1200 and it looks great. I haven't completely decided whether I will leave this resolution or step it down to something a little more moderate. Most web pages don't even fit across it, and I leave my list of bookmarks open on the left in Firefox. Wikipedia, however, never looked so good. At first I wasn't sure if I would like having a widescreen display, but now that I have it I like it a lot. I like that I don't need to worry about having enough room to display information within columns on web pages or in my Zune software, for instance. The only thing that don't really like is that it gives off a lot of heat from the screen itself.

All in all, I'm pretty pleased with both new gadgets I got today. Let's just hope I win this Y The Last Man bid on ebay. Fingers crossed.