The totally off-topic thread

[rainbowgirl]

How about ...... https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-3310 ?

The page looks very interesting but down the bottom it says 2G which might mean it doesn't work here any more. I'm not an expert however.

 

[serfty]

How about ...... https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-3310 ?

Nup! Buttons too small and not flip!

The latter is negotiable, the former not.

 

[serfty]

The Farthest on ABC tonight was outstanding. Go watch on iview if you missed it.

On the Voyager missions, arguably one of mankinds greatest scientific journeys. Wonderful interviews with the original folks from JPL. Such an achievement.

I sorta enjoyed it, but got sick of the discussion on the bloody record! I kept thinking "show us the photos of the moons, not the *&!%$$ sound of people saying 'Hi' in various languages."

Enjoyed it ... but where's Saturn et al ...

Yeah, what happened to the rest of the mission?

Despite the lack of promotion it (the second & last part) is on now.

 

[Flashback]

The page looks very interesting but down the bottom it says 2G which might mean it doesn't work here any more. I'm not an expert however.

Oh no! So it is.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Despite the lack of promotion it (the second & last part) is on now.

Fabulous it is/was too!

 

[RooFlyer]

Sod it. Was out giving a talk. Will catch it on replay.

 

[OZDUCK]

Despite the lack of promotion it (the second & last part) is on now.

Thanks for the reminder - I had forgotten it. Being in Perth the 2 hour time difference saved the day!

 

[blackcat20]

There was a time my local Coles would charge your a higher per Kg rate if you bought the heads only and left the stalks.

Yes, our local supermarket had a sign that said if you broke the stems off, the price would be more.

Our local store has the same policy.

 

[cove]

Serfty my MIL is very happy with her KISA phone at $15 a month and all the numbers she needs at a touch of a button. No texting just calls like ambos, children,grandchildren, doctor and stuff like that.

 

[Flashback]

Busier than usual up in Edinburgh this week. Ah ..... Fringe, Tattoo, etc. etc.

Normally a 5 minute walk from the office to the hotel, but took 15 minutes today.... time to go out and soak up the atmosphere.

 

[love_the_life]

We also have a rotating Ekka regime, lucky for us (me) this year is the no Ekka alternate. It's Dallas, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and NYC instead

Seems a bit of an overkill just to avoid the show

 

[Hvr]

It was forty years ago today that Elvis Presley died.

I'm getting old because I remember it well.

 

[VPS]

It was forty years ago today that Elvis Presley died.

I'm getting old because I remember it well.

Sadly so do I remember it

 

[Cruiser Elite]

So who shops at Aldi for red wine? Gin? Aldi's Liquor Awards

 

[Denali]

4 people in my office phoned in sick with flu this morning.

Not the highest on record, that was 28 people 2 days after a conference.

 

[RooFlyer]

Just driven an hour to attend a committee meeting, 4 out of 6 have the flu.

Telecon coming up.

 

[JohnK]

It was forty years ago today that Elvis Presley died.

I'm getting old because I remember it well.

Oh so sad. I've done well to erase that memory.

 

[RAM]

Remember when smaller and tiny was all the rage with mobile phones? The Ette keeps her last tiny Samsung apparently cause it's cute:

Still dwarfed by iPhone 6S+ even when flipped open:

My how things have changed!

There is a reason that the phones are getting bigger and it is quite alarming really.

The screen sizes keep growing (not really the alarming part but involved in it).

The alarming part is that society's, as a whole, eyesight is rapidly deteriorating and the deterioration is happening from a much younger age.

It is happening across both the developed and developing world.

Now screen size has gotten so large that realistically they cannot increase any further and so problems will start growing.

In Australia in the mid 80s between 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 office workers wore glasses - mid 2000s it was between 1 in 2 to 2 in 5 needed to. That's why glass shops are booming across the world - public eyesight is deteriorating rapidly.

Next time you are out and have some spare time - go and sit down to watch people walking past. Have a look at their posture, the rounded shoulders, the forward stoop, it does not matter whether they are standing or sitting unfortunately - another boom industry (for pharma and GPS etc etc) lower back problems.

For those of us who worked in the mid 1980s - remember the then 'boom' in OHS issues and the "correct set-up" of a computer screen and key board? Screen height should be set so that looking straight ahead you see the middle of the screen. Keyboard height should be set so that your lower arms and wrists are parallel to the desk etc etc.

Then the major computer makers found prices plummeting so rapidly that they made up to 15x as much per laptop vs desk top PC - so the push came for lap tops over desk top.

Donations to all major political parties in every western country (yes, as a fund manager I investigated the degree to their marketing push).

Then came the lap top in schools - so just when spines are growing at their fastest pace - the children are being forced to hunch over and compress their shoulders to type on a narrower keyboard and crane forward to look at the screen fixed down just 10 to 15 cm above the desk height.

"He who pays the piper calls the tune" they say.

 

[Denali]

...... Have a look at their posture, the rounded shoulders, the forward stoop, it does not matter whether they are standing or sitting unfortunately - another boom industry (for pharma and GPS etc etc) lower back problems........

Yep, Tech/Text Neck is real and reverse curve, which Im guilty of and currently seeing my chiro every 7/10 days to work on.

Just spoke to a sick coworker who seems to have gastro/flu and sent her home.

 

[JohnK]

I wish they would make socks that stop shrinking overnight.