On Wed, 21 May 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 09:54 PM Wednesday 5/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 May 2008, jon louis mann wrote:
>>> --- Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> At 08:32 PM Wednesday 5/21/2008, William T Goodall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My Casio watch has such a
>>>>> useless UI that I have to get the manual out twice a year for
>>>> daylight
>>>>> savings on/off.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The problem with mine is that for some reason it is usually Monday
>>>> morning before the sync signals cause it to reset itself an hour
>>>> ahead or back, so I've learned to generally ignore it on the Sunday
>>>> of the time change.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> . . . ronn! :)
>>>
>>> i have a casio 24 time zone watch and twice a year i would ask one of
>>> the pilots up front to set it for me, but now that ATA has gone out of
>>> business, i have to find the manual. at least i figured out my
>>> microwave on my own, by trial and error.
>>
>> Trial and error usually works for me, but I've only met 1 digital clock
>> that I couldn't figure out without the manual within 5 minutes. (And that
>> one is out of my life now.)
>
>
>
> How many times did it bounce when you threw it out of your life? ;)
I had nothing to do with its removal, actually -- it was the clock in the
radio/tape deck in my husband's car, and he replaced it. OK, well, maybe
I had a little to do with it -- I didn't tell him he couldn't or anything.
:)
>> Then again, if I'm thrown an unfamiliar user interface, I can usually
>> figure it out anyway. And I *usually* don't break stuff. :) (And if
>> something can break *easily*, it's even odds as to whether or not my
>> touching it is going to break it, so I wasn't allowed to mess with the
>> really delicate database at my last job.) And I like to explore all the
>> options in the UI fairly early on, just to see what's there, unless I'm
>> just supposed to set the dang time after a battery replacement or a time
>> change. :)
>>
>> Julia
>
>
>
> Me, too. But then again, Julia, like me and some others here but
> unlike jon and the overwhelming majority of human beings, you're a
> geek, and unashamed to let everyone know it.
>
>
> . . . ronn! :)
Yeah, I'm a geek, and not ashamed of it.
And not ashamed to admit that enlargements of circuit diagrams can get me
hot, either.
Julia
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