I got my long-awaited Chumby Internet Appliance a few days ago, so far I mainly use it to stream music from the Internet to my night-stand, but soon I will set it up to route only my most important email (customer emails and orders) so I can look at it without getting up.

This might seem a bit frivolous to you, but I work a graveyard shift trying to dig up more money, and to a night shift worker, sleep is a most precious thing. If I happen to be like 48% awakened, I can use one eye to check the chumby, and if I don’t have anything to deal with right away, it eases my mind and I can ramp up to maybe 95% asleep, never reaching the sweet release of 100% comatose, but that’s not important right now.

ANYWAY - I must say I am most impressed with the quality and simplicity of this device. It’s so well designed and of such high quality, I suspect it was made by fallen Amish people who could not resist technology.