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My "new" watch
Aug. 4th, 2013 10:08 pmThe nice thing about men's products is that they just don't change just because. If there's a good product, the manufacturers keep making it, in part I'm sure, because men keep buying it. As the kind of person who doesn't like things to change unnecessarily, I wish they'd do this for women's products too.
I was delighted to find my wristwatch for sale at Amazon. I've worn this exact same model of wristwatch over 20 years, when my previous watch needed a new battery in 1990. I went to Longs to buy a battery, and discovered that the battery would cost me as much as this watch would. I bought this watch instead, and every time that it's needed replacing (every 3-5 years) I've been able to find the same model.
Once, I had trouble finding a replacement and tried a different watch, but I'm so used to how to program this one that I never took a liking to the other one. When it died I was able to find another favorite at Sears, and that time bought 3 of them. The last of those finally had one of the buttons stop responding, but luckily in modern times, one need only type the first few letters of name "Casio Electro Luminescence" into Google, make a few clicks of the mouse, and the watch appears on my doorstep 2 days later.
--Beth
I was delighted to find my wristwatch for sale at Amazon. I've worn this exact same model of wristwatch over 20 years, when my previous watch needed a new battery in 1990. I went to Longs to buy a battery, and discovered that the battery would cost me as much as this watch would. I bought this watch instead, and every time that it's needed replacing (every 3-5 years) I've been able to find the same model.
Once, I had trouble finding a replacement and tried a different watch, but I'm so used to how to program this one that I never took a liking to the other one. When it died I was able to find another favorite at Sears, and that time bought 3 of them. The last of those finally had one of the buttons stop responding, but luckily in modern times, one need only type the first few letters of name "Casio Electro Luminescence" into Google, make a few clicks of the mouse, and the watch appears on my doorstep 2 days later.
--Beth
Start your quest!
Mar. 31st, 2012 03:21 pmThis must be an April Fools joke... but that doesn't start for another few hours I thought? Google now has an 8-bit graphics mode in Google maps. Accessed through pressing either the button next to Earth/Satellite/Map buttons, or clicking on a "Start your Quest" floating button hovering over the driving directions.
Wow. My house in 8-bit color. I know from some experiments I did with a similar image when I was working on printing at HP that it's possible to do much, much better, but still, this is weird so I thought I'd share.
--Beth
Wow. My house in 8-bit color. I know from some experiments I did with a similar image when I was working on printing at HP that it's possible to do much, much better, but still, this is weird so I thought I'd share.
--Beth
I think they really need some help...
Feb. 23rd, 2011 10:11 pmI just tried to view a video on YouTube and was told I need to "verify" my account. Things are so broken over there that logging in with the exact same username and two different passwords logs me in to two different accounts -- one of which has an account name that doesn't match the username, and the other that I was actually trying to log in to. It took me an hour to finally figure that out.
I still have to figure out how to unlink one YouTube account that YouTube thinks is my primary, and I never use, so that I can link my primary YouTube account with my Google account, which I also never use, except to access services that require me to have made an account there. My as-yet-unlinked YouTube account is the only actual account that I've ever used with Google services.
Sysadmining is annoying. I had intended to go to sleep early tonight.
--Beth
Edit: I have appeared to successfully navigated the process. It involved helpful status messages such as, "Note: Your old YouTube password will no longer work. You need to use your Google Account password from now on."
You mean that password that kept logging me into the account I didn't want to be logged in to? I'm hoping everything will work correctly now.
I still have to figure out how to unlink one YouTube account that YouTube thinks is my primary, and I never use, so that I can link my primary YouTube account with my Google account, which I also never use, except to access services that require me to have made an account there. My as-yet-unlinked YouTube account is the only actual account that I've ever used with Google services.
Sysadmining is annoying. I had intended to go to sleep early tonight.
--Beth
Edit: I have appeared to successfully navigated the process. It involved helpful status messages such as, "Note: Your old YouTube password will no longer work. You need to use your Google Account password from now on."
You mean that password that kept logging me into the account I didn't want to be logged in to? I'm hoping everything will work correctly now.
