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Dad was on the mailing list for an X-treme Geek catalog. Sometime in the last month or so when I was over there, he had it out and pulled it up to show me something. I forget what - I think one of the shirts but none of them rings a bell as such! At any rate I explained some of the other shirts to him (World of Warcraft references, which he didn't get) and began flipping through. We discussed other things but periodically side-tracked onto some item in the catalog, at times amusing Mom with our conversation. I don't remember if she said much, but I know she was tracking, reacting, and amused at times.
There's a gaming 'keyboard' that's round and has the key 'directional' letters on it, which I explained to him, and bunch of electrical / LED roadside flares. I brought the catalog home, with his okay, that day because of those flares - definitely beat the literally burning kind. Meant to look around locally to see if I could get them without mail-ordering, and hadn't done so yet. Unless that was when I bought the newer auto-emergency kits, which it may be. (We already had some, but put together by hand, and not ideal.)
There is a "stash card" which goes into a laptop card slot, and can be popped open to hold money, stamps, etc. Dad and I were commenting, yes, but what happens when you overload it and can't get it open / out of the computer? O.o I know I chuckled at, but don't remember if we discussed, the USB-powered drink coolers and warmers. On that same page was a clock that tracked the day of the week, and we joked that since Dad was retired, that's what they needed. We agreed the mobile workstation cart looked a touch impractical.
I can only guess that it was either the human bar code, or the "Social Engineering Specialist" t-shirt that Dad commented on. The back of the latter says "Because there is no patch for human stupidity". But I'm not sure - I don't remember. Maybe "The sun is trying to kill me"? Hmm. I don't remember. :( I remember a good 5 minutes or more browsing it and commenting on things, but not where it started exactly.
There's a gaming 'keyboard' that's round and has the key 'directional' letters on it, which I explained to him, and bunch of electrical / LED roadside flares. I brought the catalog home, with his okay, that day because of those flares - definitely beat the literally burning kind. Meant to look around locally to see if I could get them without mail-ordering, and hadn't done so yet. Unless that was when I bought the newer auto-emergency kits, which it may be. (We already had some, but put together by hand, and not ideal.)
There is a "stash card" which goes into a laptop card slot, and can be popped open to hold money, stamps, etc. Dad and I were commenting, yes, but what happens when you overload it and can't get it open / out of the computer? O.o I know I chuckled at, but don't remember if we discussed, the USB-powered drink coolers and warmers. On that same page was a clock that tracked the day of the week, and we joked that since Dad was retired, that's what they needed. We agreed the mobile workstation cart looked a touch impractical.
I can only guess that it was either the human bar code, or the "Social Engineering Specialist" t-shirt that Dad commented on. The back of the latter says "Because there is no patch for human stupidity". But I'm not sure - I don't remember. Maybe "The sun is trying to kill me"? Hmm. I don't remember. :( I remember a good 5 minutes or more browsing it and commenting on things, but not where it started exactly.
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