I am the proud owner of a Cr-48 test unit. So, I decorated it.

Friday night was like any other, Shawn and I had gone out to eat that evening. We wandered around L5P and went to Target for some household sundries and then made our way back to the house for a quiet evening with the puppy.

When we walked up the steps there was a package laying in front of the door;

"Oh, looks like you got something there." Shawn said. I looked up and saw a plain brown box. I inspect the shipping label and sure enough it was addressed to me.
"Guess you ordered something?"

"Ummm I don't know what. I ordered a Dog Egg, but this is definitely NOT a dog egg." I attempted to pick it up one handed and realized that it was pretty effin' heavy.

"Yeah, that's not big enough to be a dog egg, and I'm fairly certain a dog egg wouldn't weigh that much, guess we'll find out what it is, then."

We got into the house and I stared at the box a while wondering WTF it was and why I had it. I looked over the shipping label once more and only noticed that it was from a shipping facility, and that, as Shawn pointed out, it was to [My Name] 'Individual'. That's when I wondered if we were about to open a box that contained the infamous hamster engine diagram box....

Shawn opened the box and I stepped away, knowing that if we saw the hamster diagram I was going to have one jealous boyfriend on my hands; and I was gonna *laugh*.

As soon as the flaps were opened, I started laughing and exclaimed "OH SHIT!" Shawn's reaction?

"WHAT THE FUCK!?"

I continued to laugh and Shawn exclaimed "I couldn't get one of these fuckers at WORK and you INSULT them and they SEND YOU ONE!?!?!"

'No Wizards' Cr-48

See, when the call first went out I submitted my request by explaining to the nice Google Engineers that they really do things half-assed a lot of the time, and I was a student of Software Engineering and had a HUGE hardon/passion (whatever) for Psychology, Usability and UX/UI design and really, I wanted to help them make a product that was as awesome as they have the potential to be. I believe I closed my request with "Come one, seriously...let me help you, you guys kinda need it, to be honest." (and yes, I used the descriptor 'half-assed').  I guess they thought they'd give me a chance.

So, today we went to Criminal Records and I got a 'No Wizards' sticker, specifically for the Cr-48. There are also 3 testtubes in the lower corner, and a beaker in the upper corner. These came from the sticker sheet that came with the unit, which also included a large 'graphic' sticker to cover the whole lid, but seriously...that looked like it was designed by a 12 year old who has a good grasp of Paint Shop Pro.

So far I really kinda like the machine, I didn't think I would after reading the initial reviews, but in my hands it's really pretty handy, I'm sort of excited to take it out into the real world and see how it handles me doing research and whatnot on it. It's definitely not a dev machine, except in a pinch (ssh'ing to my remote server, so just using the terminal app, basically), but as an Internet/research machine I think it'll fit in very nicely.