approaching L2 at last...

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 09:54 PM Wednesday 5/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
>On Wed, 21 May 2008, jon louis mann wrote:
> > --- Ronn! Blankenship <ronn_blankenship at bellsouth.net> 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!  :)