Recommend a watch

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Welcome back Maggie! I haven't seen a post from you in a long while. Have you been lurking or staying away?

Well, I landed a 6-month contract gig back in August. Before that I was busy job-hunting, and after that I was working pretty hard. The gig was terminated prematurely by the client on Christmas Eve (nice guys), so I'm back in job-hunt mode.

I *very occasionally* swing by here; but I've been pseudoGAFIAted for so long it's hard to get back in the swing...and the post volume here is huge. I suppose "staying away" is a more accurate description than "lurking", but it's not "I hate the Cellar" staying away but rather "just haven't had the time".

That said, I could not resist the opportunity to brag about my Palm Watch (see upthread).

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

That said, I could not resist the opportunity to brag about my Palm Watch (see upthread).

Nice. Where did you get it at?

[SteveDallas]

Well, I bopped over to Sears and ended up with one of these thanks to all of you who recommended Casio. (They put it in a Timex box after I bought it, which I'm sure would make both Casio and Timex very happy.)

I also had a chance to traipse around the mall unimpeded by children. (Or, I should say, unimpeded by my OWN children.) As always, an interesting experience, leading to fascinating observations.

• I usually consider myself fairly nerdy, but I had to re-evaluate in the face of the 10 or so guys playing Warhammer in the comic book store.
• I also note that Spencer's Gifts, that emporium of all things of good taste, is selling plug-in video games of Space Invaders right next to plug-in video games of Jenna Jameson Strip Poker.
• Victoria's Secret is running a sale and they placed the banners so that they covered up almost all of the mannequins, leading me to wonder if they have had complaints.
• While in Gamestop I checked out a demo PSP and was fairly impressed with the graphics, sound, etc. However I managed to win the fight (it was some kind of street fighting game that I didn't even see the name of) just by pushing buttons more or less at random, so that doesn't seem to speak well for that particular game.
• Good pool tables still cost more money than I can afford and take up up more space than I can spare. For some reason, it always comes as a surprise to [re-]learn this.
• Dairy Queen has apparently teamed up with Orange Julius.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Well, I bopped over to Sears and ended up with one of these

not bad looking. i can;t do the metal band thing, tho. they tear all the hair out of my wrist. i just get a $20 analog watch with indiglo, a leather band, and a date window. s'all i need. it's usually under my shirt sleeve anyway. they last a year or so, then i crack em and they get water in 'em......maybe someday i'll get a fancy one for dressing up , but it's not a priority.

[xoxoxoBruce]

they tear all the hair out of my wrist.

I have a Speidel twistoflex band I've been moving from watch to watch for 20 years. It's the only metal band I've found that won't rip the hair out.

[richlevy]

Here is a copy of Alice in Wonderland displayed on my FX2008. Thanks for recommending it, Maggie.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Thanks for recommending it, Maggie.

My pleasure...no effort is too great to help reinforce the Geek Imperative:

"What do you mean, 'Why?'? Because we can!"

[wolf]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Here is a copy of Alice in Wonderland displayed on my FX2008.

Did you download that as a doc file, or did you hook up with the free classic books online channel from AvantGo?

(which is where I got my copy of Alice on my T|X, which is why I mention it. AvantGo rocks majorly.)

[zippyt]

Nice looking watch SD .

[wolf]

8MB was the same amount of memory that I had on my Palm IIIxe, which was an impossibly huge amount in those days ... my boss has an original USRobotics Palm Pilot that still mostly works and he wont' replace, probably because his wife wants something more than he does, and he's well, pretty much whipped. If the wife hadn't gotten addicted to the internet he'd still have a 486 computer. Whoops. The original USR PalmPilot had 1 MB.

Avantgo has a Classic Books page now. I am rereading Alice in Wonderland. They do a book of the month thing, but you can read stuff from their back-catalog as well.

Of course Docs-to-Go lets you read anything from the Gutenburg Project, so you're not really limited.

[Happy Monkey]

LCD to LED
What a difference a letter makes.

[SteveDallas]

Here you go, Tony.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/dec05/380272.asp
(via Fark)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Pulsar is coming!

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Pulsar is coming!

But wait seven years and you can have an HP-01!

HP decided to sell the HP-01 only through selected watch shops, not through their usual calculator dealers. Watch shops had mostly not heard of HP before, nor had many of their customers, and the HP-01 watches were expensive - $650 for the steel case version and $750 for the gold version. (These prices were raised to $695 and $850 on 1 July 1978.) This meant that sales were low. HP has not released sales statistics but in 1994 an HP employee posted a message on the Usenet area comp.sys.hp.misc about this. The message said that a total of about 50,000 HP-01s had been made, of which about a half had been purchased by a Saudi prince. Half the rest were sold through shops, then the remainder were sold to HP employees at a clearance price of $180 (the message did not specify if the steel and gold versions were both sold at the same price).

[SteveDallas]

Arrrgh! I'd get hit that.

Where's the "enter" key? Shouldn't an HP calculator watch use RPN?