Answer Me This
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Over the years, many questions cross my mind that just don’t seem to have answers (actually, lots of strange stuff crosses my mind, but that’s, er, another story). I’ve searched high and low, but these are things that just seem to defy all reason.
Someone out there, please! If you know the answer to this one of life’s little mysteries, please, I beg of you! Don’t leave us hanging, share it with the rest of us!
There is much to be said about brute force!
Are you old enough to remember when televisions were black-and-white, and “color” was something you did in a book with a box of crayons? Remember when TVs were still made with tubes, and the term “solid-state” referred to the Christmas fruitcake? Remember when the picture got fuzzy, or static poured out of the speakers during your favorite episode of Leave it to Beaver?
Do you remember what sure-fire, super-duper, high-tech method your father used to fix it? Yep, a good sharp whack! (Ironically enough, one of my favorite innovation sites on the web is Roger von Oech’s blog, Creative Think. Roger (in case you have been living under a rock) wrote A Whack on the Side of the Head.)
So here’s the thing…
I have this fancy PDA (an HP IPAQ) I bought a few years ago, and recently the thing has decided, for no apparent reason, to “lock up” every now and then, or forget everything it knows, or fail to connect and synchronize. You wanna know what sure-fire, super-duper, high-tech method I found works best to correct it?
Poke it with a sharp stick!
Seriously, it’s even in the instructions: pushing a sharp pointed object into the reboot pinhole is what recovers it (almost) every time.
Doesn’t that seem just a little bit… regressive?
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Bob,
A cheaper, esthetically elegant and more sensorial gratifying solution –
http://www.moleskines.com/gclid=CPeokuyWgYsCFQgTWAode3_8JQ
Oh, sure, I guess I could at least poke it with something that has a little style, eh? Well, why stop there? How about going all out and use one of these?
Actually this is the device I think is more appropriate!
I have an MP3 player (an iRiver H10) that freezes a lot, but the hole so small that you can’t fit a pen in there!
I have to carry a paperclip with me at all times!
“Poke it with a sharp stick!”
Maybe that will be the name of your book!
Markk, I know what you mean. But are we the only ones who think we’re going backwards with every advance in technology?
Roger, what a great idea! I like it!
But on second thought… “A Whack on the Side of the Head”; “Poke it With a Sharp Stick” - gee, it seems like the world of creativity is getting to be a rather violent place, doesn’t it?
Bwa-ha-ha-ha! :-O
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