One of the silly things we've acquired over the last month or so was a little 1GB mp3 player, purchased because, among other things, it only cost $10. Well, this little critter has the most impossible-to-comprehend user's manual I have ever seen, and I've seen a few. I'm guessing they fed the original Chinese into an electronic translator set to "Greek" (with possibly a hop through "Inuit" and "Klingon") before they ran the result through again for "English." A sample:
The point recommends!Encrypt the dish function.General MP3 customer will suffer “the data divulges a secret” of harassment, don’t wish to let own personal data seen by other people, be afraid using hour only have to delete first. Result in very the hemp is vexed.From today, the encrypted the dish function will resolve this problem thoroughly.The customer can divided USB dish with the supplementary tool in the player (the customer can see two designs on the computer, Windowes 2000 wants the gearing SP4, otherwise can see only one, to see the other must under the system enactment / conjunction-machine mode” choose the single common dish” or the “single encrypt dish” ) And encrypt the function to the dish for encrypting (can also don’t encrypt, like this dichotomous the dish to use), contents concealing, having no password can’t seeing data, this is very liking using.
Cliff's favorite line is "Result in very the hemp is vexed." Needless to say, I haven't been able to make it work yet. (Maybe I vexed the hemp). But I shall. We like technology.
While looking for magnet boards for Hannah's room we came across this. Maybe I was just giddy from all the shopping, but something about "wheels for smooth gliding action" had me giggling for about 15 minutes.
For fans of Old Time Radio (American, at least) I offer the following link. I've been listening to Fibber McGee and Molly lately; it's great fun. Although should I admit that perhaps my favorite part of the show are the commercial plugs; those old radio shows were sponsored by a product, and I get a kick out of listening to the male announcer extolling the virtues of Johnson's floor wax. Even better is Don Wilson on the Jack Benny program, getting very enthusiastic about Jello each week, even sharing some truly horrific-sounding Jello recipes (Jello cabbage salad, anyone?).
Just a Keystroke Away
Finally, a plug to keep in touch. We're still encouraging them as have webcams to drop us a line and we'll set up a chat. We're also now a Skype household, so anyone with Skype can dial us up for free. Just drop me an email and I'll give you our username.
Happy Holidays, folks!