MacBook Air
Anorexic. That’s how his colleague describes it.
Archive for Gadgets
Holga
Behind the 400D’s back, he has secretly fallen deep into infatuation the plastic toy camera. Damn, he’s gonna get one soon!
G-Shock manual
More than ten years after most of his friends owned one (maybe more), he finally got his. He is still suspicious of the 30% discount he got from the shop. But that’s not the point. The package came with everything but the manual. He assumed he could easily guess how to operate it with two eyes closed.
He got the basics - 2 stopwatches, 5 alarm clocks, world time of 48 cities and dozens of useless stuff that he wouldn’t bother to use were easily configurable. But he couldn’t get the damn Auto EL backlight to work. What the hell is DST? How to mute the irritating beep?
Like any other netizens of the 21st century, he googled. No luck on the official website. He found the Casio’s ftp where all the manuals are stored. Easy, except that they are not named according to the model number. Weird. A forum thread actually suggested to download all the (1000+) files and check one by one afterwards. Very funny. Shortly he spotted another thread that traced to yet another resource which “lists all the Japanese release G-shocks from 1983-2007″ in spreadsheet and text file. There was a corresponding module number for each model number. The dots were connected. The module number 3031 for his G-9000MC-8JF led him to the correct manual qw3031.pdf. It was like breaking the Da Vinci’s code for beginners.
Operation Guide 3031. Three and a half monochrome pages, with diagrams and tables. He found what he wanted.
