electric relaxation

I bought my mom a Kindle for her birthday. My parents are visiting and they brought it with them so I could show them how to use it (it’s been sitting unopened in a box since it arrived a few weeks ago).

Not much point in doing a complete review since there are plenty of them out there. I just wanted to note that this thing is fucking cool. Also, I particularly liked the warm and fuzzy introductory note from Jeff Bezos about their goals for the device. It’s weird that I’m such a sucker for this sort of crap, but anyway sadly the little note that basically thanks you for being an early adopter made me feel a lot better about the amount of cash this thing put me back.

On a related note, a couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a recruiter looking for a senior Linux person to work on the Kindle. I was surprised at how tempting it was to find out more (a temptation which would have been even stronger had I actually played with the thing before I received the recruiter e-mail).

Update: Forgot to mention that the packaging is also really cool. As was the packaging on my new JawBone. I guess everybody’s getting the memo these days…