Amazon price is good, the Germans are very proud obviously but its a great tool
No you are right, I carry a blue pen, not black, and for all the reasons you say! Whoops. That was a last second addition to the list, mostly because I find the notebook extremely useful. The dot grid is less obtrusive than lines and works great for both text and sketches.
I do still tend to use a red pen on drawings. I donāt do a lot of markups (I mostly program), and usually Iām adding notes to someone elseās markups so I match their color.
I usually carry, a blue, red, and orange pen for various reasons. If Iām marking up a drawing with changes that need to be made in the electronic version, Iāll typically use the red or orange pen. If itās a black and white drawing Iāll just use the red pen, but if it was printed with color sometimes they have red objects, but rarely orange ones, thatās when I use the orange pen so the changes are obvious.
Iāve also started carrying around a cholesteric LCD tablet (here is a Wiki link about the company and the general idea: Boogie board (product) - Wikipedia), but I bought one of Aliexpress (something like this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006666022845.html?algo_exp_id=a68fe2ee-bff8-4e63-b67f-2bf1705a12f9-2&pdp_ext_f={āorderā%3A"30"%2C"eval"%3A"1"%2C"fromPage"%3A"search"}&pdp_npi=6%40dis!NZD!61.76!26.15!!!33.99!14.39!%402101d6fe17641010495725800e2bdd!12000037971747743!sea!NZ!0!ABX!1!0!n_tag%3A-29910%3Bd%3A58af278a%3Bm03_new_user%3A-29895%3BpisId%3A5000000187480198&curPageLogUid=FzDoh8OQE49H&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A|x_object_id%3A1005006666022845|_p_origin_prod%3A). Essentially itās a pressure sensitive LCD that changes state when you draw on it. It only requires power to erase the display. It has no smarts, so you canāt save the notes to your PC unless you take a picture. But for ephemeral notes, quickly doing some math calculations that I donāt need to keep around, or drawing up some quick diagrams to show someone, it works really well and I donāt need to worry about having a scrap of paper around. The company that invented the technology has some models with a translucent version of the LCD and you can swap out a piece of cardboard in the back to get lines, or grid āpaperā on the tablet (Boogie Board Blackboard Reusable Notebook Writing Tablet with Stylus, Instant Erase and Templates (Letter) : Amazon.ca: Office Products)
Wow - on sale from 802 Million to 480 Million (Glad I donāt live in Venezuela, just use their VPN servers)
- Just checked and thatās a whopping US$19.80.
Show up with $50 in your pocket and youāre a billionaire
EDIT: At 480 million - why the extra ā.44ā?? Even on a $60,000 SUV they always have a .36 at the end
why the extra ā.44ā?? Even on a $60,000 SUV they always have a .36 at the end
Who knows, maybe itās similar to how things are priced as 39.99 so they can say āitās less than $40ā, maybe it has something to do with the way currencies are converted.
I get Temu translating the currency at current exchange rates, but buying a GM vehicle in the USA doesnāt invoke any currency exchange.
And Iāve encountered the $Thousands.(Plus a coffee) too
When I buy something that says $39.99 I tell the salesclerk I want the $40 one, and frequently get a confused look and then told they donāt have any of those for $40
Similar to a guy that jumped all over me for lying to a coworker when they asked what time it was and I said āquarter after 3ā. This guy said I was lying and telling him the wrong time when it was only 3:14 and not quarter after. Close enough for humans not piloting a space shuttle in my opinion.
Yeah thatās pretty ridiculous. Unless they are trying to time something preciously saying rounding up/down time by a couple of minutes shouldnāt really matter. If the time precision IS that important, they probably shouldnāt be reliant one some random person telling them what time it is either.
I think most people chatting on this forum would understand that at times precision is important, but there are plenty of times itās not. Hell as an American living in New Zealand I still sometimes need to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit when trying to get an idea of the weather. Honestly for that purpose, multiplying by 2 and adding 30 is close enough and a lot quicker to do in my head.
If the forecast says itās 25C outside, (25 * 2)+30 = 80, takes a second or two for me to do, vs (25 * 9/5)+32 = 77, which will take me a bit longer..and that 3 degrees Fahrenheit isnāt going to change what clothes I decided to put on for the day.
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I still wear an analog watch, so I can glance at it, and see about what time it is. Do younger folks still wear watches or just use their phones?
In the ā80ās the chemical plant I worked at used Redlion 3 digit displays for Reactor temperature display. 4 digits was much more expensive. Ideal temperature was 185F or 85C, so we used C in the displays and got one decimal. Got really good at mental conversions.
Double C, minus 10%, plus 32. So in your 25C example. 50-5+32, easy to do mental and correct too.
I cannot do the F to C in my head, actually never tried too.
Turkey Day here in the USA.
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Their have just been some posts lately from teachers ranting that kids, even high school kids, canāt tell time on an analog clock, and they are so entrenched in their iPads and tablets that they can barely write and canāt read or write cursive at all. Plus even simple math is above them as they use a calculator for everything.
I was working in a shop in 2015 where one of the maintenance guys (definitely NOT a technician), who was the maintenance supervisors son, got a note from the receptionist written in cursive and asked me to read it for him. When I asked how he graduated without knowing how to write cursive he said the only cursive they taught in school was how to sign your own name, and only the letters that were in your name.
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Itās reverse the C to F approximation.
F minus 30, divide by 2
Close enough for humans not calibrating a temperature controller (or piloting a space shuttle)
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Dollar General is also my optometrist. 2.5x for me too. I have probably spent $80 on readers eight dollars at a time over the past eight years.
My children, 5 and 8, can both read analog clocks pretty well. My older carries a pocket watch he got at the local train museum. Both of them have wrist watches that they wear occasionally, but they arenāt allowed to bring them into school. Something about knowing when lunch and recess are, yadda yadda yadda.
At the school my kids go to, they start with cursive in first grade. My oldest has MUCH better handwriting in cursive. I almost canāt read his writing if it isnāt in cursive because he writes too big. My youngest is emulating some of it, but he is still working on the normal letters.
Math has been a challenge though, I am almost having to relearn all of the basics to be able to help with homework. This common core stuff is for the birds. Early on it is alright, but my oldest is having trouble grasping multiplication and division with it, and to be honest so am I. I have been teaching him the way I learned it, and he grasps it immediately, but when he uses it in class he gets in trouble. Why does it matter how he figured out that 6 * 8 = 48 as long as he gets the answer right? No, we have to say 5 * 8 = 40 + 1 * 8 = 48. What the heck am I supposed to do when I had to memorize my times table in school? He got marks off on a test for using his hands on the 9 times tables, and I was so proud to finally get to teach him that trick (and I still use it to this day). [/rant]
37 matches in a boxā¦and i know there is room for three more
No, that would exceed the allowed flammables to oxygen ratio in the box. Might as well pack a lithium battery in each box.
I stopped wearing a watch years ago for two reasons. I donāt like wearing things that chafe, and some of the manufacturing facilities I was going into regularly made me take it off anyway. I always had my cell phone anyway, so I left it at home. I would put it on for church and dates for a while, and then just got out habit. I donāt have a smart watch either.
That said, I love the aesthetic of a nice timepiece. If I worked more in an office environment, I would probably have kept wearing a watch. I keep my grandmotherās mantel clock running in the living room.
Reading an analog clock is actually a fairly complex mental exercise when you break down the details. I remember hearing an episode of some radio program (This American Life maybe?) about Alzheimers, and one of the guests who was a doctor and was in the early stages of the disease talked about practicing telling time on an analog clock as long as he could.
I donāt even own a watch except for a free smartwatch I won. And I havenāt even plugged that in to charge it in over 4 years. Might do it today just to see if it still works and what phone I paired it to back then.
Plus the only clock in my house is in the kitchen I use for baking, it is analog. I had a train clock but it fell off the shelf and the hands broke off, so now itās a display piece.
[RANT] Daylight Savings Time needs to end, or change it permanently and leave it on year round. And - YES - it was āSavingsā with an āsā until history got changed a couple of years ago.[/RANT]
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I stopped wearing a watch a long time ago, because the watch I had broke, and I was unemployed at the time. By the time I got a job, I was used to using my cell phone, so I didnāt bother buying another.
A few years after that I got my EMT certification (I was doing Search and Rescue at the time, and thought the training would be useful). A watch was a really useful tool in that situation, sometimes you needed to monitor how many seconds was going by when you were doing various tasks like monitoring someoneās pulse, etc, but being able to pull out a phone and unlock it to switch to a clock that showed seconds etc, wastes a lot of time when someoneās life is on the line, so I started wearing a watch again.
About 9-10 years ago I bought a Garmin Fenix 3HR, I didnāt need all the fancy smart watch features, of some of the Android Wear ones, but wanted to track some hikes and stuff, wanted better battery life, and wanted something durable that I didnāt need to take off when I went rock climbing of rafting, etc. Iāve been pretty happy with itā¦Iām still wearing it to this day. It was an expensive watch but itās been great, and has lasted, and if it dies, I would probably buy another one. There are some situations where itās nice to be able to see the time or start a timer, and pulling my phone out of my pocket isnāt always easy.
Completely agree DST needs to endā¦Honestly I donāt care which way the clock moves, or hell if they just split the difference change the clocks by 30 minutes and leave it thereā¦.but it needs to end.
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I just startedā¦ about a year ago I decided to try and get in better shape so I bought a Fitbit to count my steps, I am now walking 3 miles a day (in 60 min) on my treadmill, its about 6k steps and I try and get another 4k in through out the day, so I was 58 and just started wear a watch
Could not agree with more about time change, just split it and call it done
I would still be using reading glasses but now I need them to see far also