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? ;) >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! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
