As you may know, we like to keep a close eye on the Twitterverse (you can find us at @macsales) and, occasionally find OWC as a topic of discussion. Well, this morning, Twitter user @maddogmedia posted the comment
“I’ve been using OWC drives for years, externals and internals. They’re nearly as tough as Jens Voigt.”
Now, I’ll be the first to admit, I had no idea who Jens Voigt was. As far as I knew, he was Jon Voight’s uncle or something. A Google search later, though, I realized just how much of a compliment @maddogmedia was giving us.
For those of you who don’t follow that sort of thing, Jens Voigt is a professional cyclist. In the cycling world, he’s universally loved for his aggressive, never-give-up, but positive attitude. A pretty admirable trait, true, but how does that fit in with “toughness”?
Then, I kept reading and the more I read about him, the more he sounded like sounded like a real-life Chuck Norris meme:
- Once, he rode two stages of the Tour of California with a broken hand, then apologized because his doctors and teammates convinced him to quit the race and get it fixed.
- Once, in the Tour de France, he crashed his bike, totaling it, but rather than quitting the race, he borrowed a child’s bike (complete with toe clips) and rode that for about 15-20km until he was able to get to where they had a spare bike for him.
- During another Tour, he tumbled off the side of a mountain ravine, got up, pulled his bike out of the bushes, and got back into the race.
And the stories continue on like this. Reading these tales really are a story in perseverance and, dare I say it, toughness.
So having our drives compared to Jens Voigt… Yeah… I’d say that’s a pretty darn nice thing to say.
Thanks @maddogmedia. #TFTL
Our second year at CES was a big success and while you may have read other sources’ accounts of the show, I thought you might (since you likely are a regular reader and interested in all things OWC) like a summary from our perspective.
All of you who want to get those great OWC products you got for Christmas set up before the new year (or to get more stuff, because we can always use more) will be glad to hear OWC staffers will be here for our normal hours on Saturday, December 31, to answer your tech questions or place your last-minute orders. Live Chat will be open until at 10pm Saturday Night.
The OWC elves, I mean, employees are all working twice as hard to make sure no order is left behind this holiday season! Since we understand how quickly ‘Eve’s’ tend to sneak up, we’re here to make sure it’s not to late for us to help all your holiday wish lists come true too!
The science world was all atwitter last night about today’s announcement from 