...at CES are rare for attendees, in my experience. It's hard work and a monumental commercial achievement at the expense of sanity, holiday vacations and sleep. But these moments of joy do exist.

Dell showed a 5 inch Android tablet. It's too small to be more useful than a smartphone, and can't be pocketed as easily, but for some reason, I found it sexy. And that one of the most mainstream makers of PCs made something so cool, well, I was impressed. I'm not sure I would buy one, but it made me happy.

I miss my dogs. They're being watched in Japan for the month by Lisa's parents, and I'm going back to pick them up in a week. They're black and brown, and these mascots also happen to be black and brown. I guess they reminded me of my pets without me realizing it, and I decided to give them a hug. Cozy.

I made fun of 3D HDTV a lot. Then I tried it on a really good set with fast refresh rates, by Panasonic. I loved it and to me the difference between 2D and 3D is as profound as the difference between black and white and color TV. I got excited at the thought of playing games and watching movies with lots of explosions and lush scenery (Planet Earth, HD!) with a third dimension.

Another great moment of happiness came when I felt we were hitting our stride, as a team, covering the show. No trailer, no booth, no place to set up and write in peace. But since we were all here, together, I was able to ask everyone how they were doing without typing it. It's nice to communicate without a keyboard, once in awhile.

We bought pizza for ourselves and since the lunches were cold, got some for our pals in the press room.

Seeing the Gizmodo junior team learn so much so fast has been inspiring. I got especially happy watching Don and Kyle nail their shorts and Rosa, well, Rosa found the best story of the show. And the veterans are just so good, they're always surprising me with astounding finds and speed of insightful writing.

I bumped into a lot of friends here, not only those I work at Gizmodo with. Chris Null, Sean Captain, Leander Kahney, Charlie White, Dylan Tweeney, Joe Brown, Steve Leckart, Danny Dumas, Ryan Block, Veronica Belmont and Pete Rojas, naming a few. And this is actually the first time I've worked side by side with Joel Johnson, who returned to Giz only last month.

In a few hours, this show will be largely done for us. Everyone who worked on the blog will have a nice dinner together. Then I'll go home. That will be my most happy moment.

*We noticed these people were having a good time at CES, too. If you look closely, most of them have to do with people interacting with each other, not the machinery.

Does your phone help you remember things you might have forgotten, and take photos of memorable events? Does it piss you off when the screen cracks or when it crashes? Do you hate telecommuting or getting work calls at 11pm? What if we lived like wombats and just ate food and shit and had sex? Does that sound so bad?

Go into Google in Firefox and type "I am extremely" in the search box. You will get these most searched queries:

• 12,300,000 pages with people saying they are extremely tired
• 11,100,000 pages of extremely tired people
• 4,750,000 pages of extremely depressed
• 3,580,000 extremely shy
• 930,000 extremely pleased (only?)
• 839,000 extremely grateful
• 769,000 extremely happy (like me)
• 377,000 extremely jealous
• 321,000 extremely lonely
• 303,000 extremely terrified of chinese people (probably because they saw Jason Chen's pants powers)

Knowing how people use the internet, I can't believe there are no results for "I am extremely horny." [Thanks Mona]

It took already captured images of my friends' faces and turned their frowns or ambivalent looks into smiles, but didn't adjust the subjects' eyes. Though this was good for laughs, the eerie-looking grins pasted on faces reminded me of painted-on clowns' mouths. And some attempts to retouch a face couldn't detect the face to alter it. But a handful of the Happy Face Retouches looked somewhat natural.

It's pretty much self-explanatory, so we'll just pose this question to our readers: Do you think all the gadgets we've amassed are making us more happy, less happy, or just about the same?

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– Jason Chen

Andy Singer [via Neatorama]

Happy Hacking Lite 2 keyboard [Ubergizmo]