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Small towns are also a bit different. I used to live in a place where two towns and the surrounding area shared a post office which had one guy that worked there. I wonder what they did when he got sick.
 
Small towns are also a bit different. I used to live in a place where two towns and the surrounding area shared a post office which had one guy that worked there. I wonder what they did when he got sick.
There are a few post offices close to me actually, the town where I live is <400 but there are towns that big throughout this valley and they all have their own post office.

The crazy thing is it will be driven through my town to a place 4 hours away from here then split up there then sent back to my town's post office. It is pretty crazy. It adds at least a day. UPS had FedEx have distribution centers placed much more strategically so things take a few less days to get here. I really think USPS uses the same location as when mail workers rode horses in the Pony Express, they never moved when the population changed.
 
Your Pony Express theory makes me think that there could be historical reasons for why those towns I mentioned shared the post office. I am not sure what the population was, but the elementary school had around 50 students, so I would guess the population was more than 400. There was, however, only one paved road that went to those roads at the time I lived there, and I think to get there by way of dirt roads would take you way out of the way, to the middle of nowhere, if you could even get to the nearest large town on them.

I miss living in less densely populated areas.
 
There are a few post offices close to me actually, the town where I live is <400 but there are towns that big throughout this valley and they all have their own post office.

The crazy thing is it will be driven through my town to a place 4 hours away from here then split up there then sent back to my town's post office. It is pretty crazy. It adds at least a day. UPS had FedEx have distribution centers placed much more strategically so things take a few less days to get here. I really think USPS uses the same location as when mail workers rode horses in the Pony Express, they never moved when the population changed.
Any sign of the box yet?
 
Not today, no luck. Tomorrow it will be a week so I'm hopeful it will be soon. I'm also checking the mail in the morning rather than the evening, so technically I just checked for Thursday's mail, not Friday's. Tomorrow I'm going to check 20 min before it closes so I'm be checking Friday's and Saturday's.

EDIT: Wow, I got the notification someone posted since I refreshed the page right as I was hitting post reply.
 
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Not today, no luck. Tomorrow it will be a week so I'm hopeful it will be soon. I'm also checking the mail in the morning rather than the evening, so technically I just checked for Thursday's mail, not Friday's. Tomorrow I'm going to check 20 min before it closes so I'm be checking Friday's and Saturday's.

EDIT: Wow, I got the notification someone posted since I refreshed the page right as I was hitting post reply.

Funny trivia... Google maps says you could bike from there to here in 79 hours.

Conclusion: USPS needs faster bikes.
 
we get mail really quickly in our neck of the woods, though we are in one of the "major" "metropolitan" areas of north dakota... doesn't hurt that there's a post office three blocks away...
 
Oddly enough, my mail comes more quickly generally since I've moved out of London, even though my major sorting office is in a different county to me these days. I can't really work out why.
 
Oddly enough, my mail comes more quickly generally since I've moved out of London, even though my major sorting office is in a different county to me these days. I can't really work out why.
Sounds like how the mail works over there is a mystery too.
 
Grr, nope, I went 20 minutes before they closed because if I got it I'm sure I'd need to go to the front desk to get it and it sounded like they were still putting out mail. I'm sure they do packages before the rest of the mail though. Where I go to church is really close to their so I'll check the P.O. box tomorrow, if I have a yellow slip I'll go Monday morning if not then I'll go Tuesday morning.
 
The Altair 8800 prototype was never delivered to Poplar Electronics back in 1974.
Hope the wandering Pyra will be luckier.
 
Well, while I've been waiting I at least learned how to sync external audio to my video so I'll sound better in the video I make :/ I'll just be recording with my gopro so video quality will be acceptable but the audio will be done on a Zoom H1 which records amazingly well. There was no slip saying I had a package so I won't check until tomorrow night. Even if I get it as late as Saturday that will be fine, it will just be one take I'm sure, mostly of me rambling about how much I love the Pandora and can't wait for the Pyra!
 
USPS 'First Class Mail'. It should have been there in a few days. Going on a week and a half now. Very frustrating, but I have no idea what I can do about it. It has my return address on it too and it hasn't come back. I sent it from a corner mailbox and shipping place - it was weighed & metered.
 
USPS 'First Class Mail'. It should have been there in a few days. Going on a week and a half now. Very frustrating, but I have no idea what I can do about it. It has my return address on it too and it hasn't come back. I sent it from a corner mailbox and shipping place - it was weighed & metered.
If it was first class didn't you get a tracking number? It should be on the receipt.

Here in a few hours I'm going to go check the mail so we'll see if it is here today. . .
 
If it was first class didn't you get a tracking number? It should be on the receipt.

Here in a few hours I'm going to go check the mail so we'll see if it is here today. . .

1st class mail is a quasi-tracking number. It shows nothing but yes/no received. I'll check it tonight - I don't have it with me right now.
 
Got It!!!! apparently what happened, or what I think happened, is they had a yellow slip indicating there was a package but we had two. My brother came for a visit and had to have something important mailed to him so he had it sent to my parent's P.O. Box so when he got his package the mail people didn't give him ALL the packages. That is what I think happened anyway, I'm pretty sure it was USPS's fault. . .

Anyway, haven't opened it yet, I need to get some sticky notes to stick over the address so I can open it up on camera and I'll do an 'unboxing' video. I'm getting a little better at editing video.
 
Got It!!!! apparently what happened, or what I think happened, is they had a yellow slip indicating there was a package but we had two. My brother came for a visit and had to have something important mailed to him so he had it sent to my parent's P.O. Box so when he got his package the mail people didn't give him ALL the packages. That is what I think happened anyway, I'm pretty sure it was USPS's fault. . .

Anyway, haven't opened it yet, I need to get some sticky notes to stick over the address so I can open it up on camera and I'll do an 'unboxing' video. I'm getting a little better at editing video.

Whew - good to hear it made it. Looking forward to your video/pictures/thoughts.
 
Just got done with the unboxing video, haven't edited it yet, hope no-one is too excited about it, it is pretty lackluster. I'm getting ready to edit it right now so I'll post it here tonight or tomorrow.

Two things I noticed:

The height of the unit, it is a little thicker than the Pandora, but I think it feels better in the hands. When using my Pandora for hours my hands start to cramp up but I don't think they will as bad with the larger size in my hands. So I probably won't upgrade my case. . .

The click of the nubs, I'm not sure if I like it for desktop use until I try them with a program. I use Blender quite a bit right now to edit my videos and if the cursor moves when I click the nubs for either either mouse clicks it just won't work for me. Maybe there could be a program to switch the non-marked keys? it looks like ABXY are marked as Page up, Page down, Home, and End which I use a lot in Blender so I really like those. However, R1, R2, L1, L2 and the nubs aren't really marked, being able to switch the use of those would be awesome. I was thinking making two of the shoulder buttons mouse clicks and two switch right and left between desktops.

I don't know, it might be dreaming of actually getting Blender to run on the Pyra but that would save me so much weight/space on my bicycle tour. Like I said in my video, if I could just edit a few videos on the Pyra and wait until I'm next to an outlet to use my notebook to render them or maybe just get to a lan house to use a much much more powerful computer I could edit a lot more videos. The Pyra can be charged with a powerbank giving me hours and hours of editing time while I'm in my tent, I find if I don't edit regularly I get overwhelmed. If that is possible I'd sell my notebook where ever I was and send ED the money for one, maybe spend a few weeks in a hotel room waiting for my Pyra to arrive! I'd probably actually buy with credit and sell my notebook when I get the Pyra. Either way if a developer or maybe someone who gets their Pyra when it ship could try getting Blender to run that would help me out a lot.


EDIT: Ok, I haven't been editing, have been playing around.


So I took it apart and put the stiffer keymat in, the one that had the white back with the domed keys and I think I prefer the stiffer keys. The game controls feels just as good also. I do prefer the domed keys though, the flat ones just don't seem to come out as much. The mat that was in it, the one with the black back, seemed a little mushy. Which keymat is supposed to be in the shell? When they're stiffer it doesn't seem like the keys have as much travel but I prefer the feeling. It is closer to the Pandora, which I say in the video I don't like but I mainly just don't like them because they're too domed. I feel like I'm hitting the keys more accurately with the Pyra than with the Pandora, might be the shape, rectangle and less domed. Even when I push a key on the Pandora if I don't have a visual confirmation by looking at the screen I would feel like I didn't hit the key, if that makes sense. I can't tell 100% if I'm pressing them adequately but the Pyra 'feels' like I do. I think all around the Pyra's keyboard is better than the Pandora's, but the keymat that was in it feels really mushy.

Anyway, I'm getting one eventually, just the three problems I had with the Pandora are fixed here. It feels great in the hand and with a 720p screen I think it will be much better for general computing. I'll get one while on my bike tour if someone can confirm Blender works and if not I'll get one when I get home. I'm so glad I got to get this package before I left, I now know it feels really good now if it will just do enough to replace my notebook on my bike I'd be really happy!

So after using it for awhile I'm going to do a second video tomorrow. I'll ship it out Friday.
 
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