Cheap stuff never works
Cheap stuff never works, does it? I felt like shopping today and bought some stuff that I thought might help me. I bought a USB hub for $19.99, a USB cable for $2.87, a beard trimmer for $19.99 and was gonna buy a 9V DC adapter for my keyboard (musical) but wasn’t sure what kind of amperage the CASIO unit required. So here is the ordeal: Let’s start with the adapter that I didn’t buy. Mark electronics had a 500mA (milli-amperes: unit of measuring current flow) adapter and then they had a 1000mA adapter. I was stupid enough to even consider guessing the amperage on the keyboard but hey, sensibility kicked into me and I decided to check the keyboard out before buying the adapter. So as I reach home, I reach for the keyboard that had been collecting dust under my parents’ bed and it was the moment of truth - my heart was throbbing, my forehead was sweaty, my throat was dry and I was dying out of curiosity to know whether the magic number was 500 or 1000. Guess what? The keyboard decided to be real nice and figured it would be fair to both the numbers if it said 850mA. I was just pissed at this discovery and then I reach for my old adapter that I used to use in India and I found out that I had been using a 800mA adapter all along … doesn’t that just blow?
Anyways, lets move on to the beard trimmer. I came home and after about ten minutes of pondering over what was bothering me, I realized that the trimmer did not have any trimming guides! For my hairless friends, trimming guides are those things that go on top of the blade to give different cut settings so that we can cut the hair to the desired length. Therefore, no trimming guides = useless trimmer. Hence, this one is going back to the shop.
A trimmer guide
Moving on to the USB hub. Again, for my technologically deprived friends, a USB hub is something that would let me plug in four wires (for example) into just one hole. The way this works is that the hub has four holes itself and these four holes take in the four wires and then on the other end of the hub is just a single wire that goes into the computer’s hole. Now the way that I envisioned the hub to work was that I would be able to operate the webcam, printer and the scanner all at the same time. Just my luck. The hub would only allow one device to operate at any given time. No further comment.
USB Hub: takes in four and gives out just one!
The only thing that worked out for me was the $2.87 USB cable and oh the haircut. I like the way the chinese girl cut my hair. I think she was suffering from subliminal depression because she kept talking about how life is difficult and something about her going to school. I don’t even know cuz I didn’t pay attention to half the things she said.