GIP

For minnehaha K and anyone else who is observing Change Your Icon Day, I'm swapping in a different default, at least for a few hours. (If you're seeing my tattoo here, I've switched back.)

GIP

For minnehaha K and anyone else who is observing Change Your Icon Day, I'm swapping in a different default, at least for a few hours. (If you're seeing my tattoo here, I've switched back.)

Hardware: laptops and faxes

After some hunting around and a bit of testing, I've concluded that we have a 386 laptop to give rysmiel and papersky. We also have a 486, but not if I fly up there, because the battery is completely incapable of holding a charge, so the machine might not pass airport security. (Amtrak doesn't care about such things.) Also, a machine that has to be reminded of the existence of its hard drive, and that it's not January 1990, every time it's unplugged, is suboptimal.)

Today, we replaced the old printer/scanner/fax machine with a just plain scanner ($30 after rebate). We thus discovered that we'd flubbed the testing a few weeks ago, and do not have a dial tone on the data line.

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Hardware: laptops and faxes

After some hunting around and a bit of testing, I've concluded that we have a 386 laptop to give rysmiel and papersky. We also have a 486, but not if I fly up there, because the battery is completely incapable of holding a charge, so the machine might not pass airport security. (Amtrak doesn't care about such things.) Also, a machine that has to be reminded of the existence of its hard drive, and that it's not January 1990, every time it's unplugged, is suboptimal.)

Today, we replaced the old printer/scanner/fax machine with a just plain scanner ($30 after rebate). We thus discovered that we'd flubbed the testing a few weeks ago, and do not have a dial tone on the data line.

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Returning glasses

I'm returning my new suneyeglasses, and having them remade in the plastic of my previous lenses, and without the self-darkening coating, for three reasons:

1. I'm still not quite adjusted to them, and the optician suggested that the problem might be the change to polycarbonate.


2. The darkened lenses let in enough light to cause eyestrain, because it gets in past the edges of the glasses. They also aren't entirely clear indoors, though the shading is subtle.


3. I cannot get them to stay clean for more than about five minutes, whether I use soap and water, the special cleaning stuff the optician sold me, or just my shirttail.

This means going back to the old, heavy glasses for at least a week, but it needs doing. I'd probably be returning them even if it were only that self-darkening lenses don't work for me, but I might have kept the polycarbonate if so.

N.B. Edited to fix typo that changed the meaning--these are my basic bifocal everything glasses.

Returning glasses

I'm returning my new suneyeglasses, and having them remade in the plastic of my previous lenses, and without the self-darkening coating, for three reasons:

1. I'm still not quite adjusted to them, and the optician suggested that the problem might be the change to polycarbonate.


2. The darkened lenses let in enough light to cause eyestrain, because it gets in past the edges of the glasses. They also aren't entirely clear indoors, though the shading is subtle.


3. I cannot get them to stay clean for more than about five minutes, whether I use soap and water, the special cleaning stuff the optician sold me, or just my shirttail.

This means going back to the old, heavy glasses for at least a week, but it needs doing. I'd probably be returning them even if it were only that self-darkening lenses don't work for me, but I might have kept the polycarbonate if so.

N.B. Edited to fix typo that changed the meaning--these are my basic bifocal everything glasses.