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[rorqual]

I bought a new digital alarm clock today (it's blue!). It is super simple to operate, but I glanced at the instructions once I finished setting it up and saw the following warning:

The mains plug remains readily operable when the plug is connected into a power slot.

I...don't know what that means. I don't think it's a very good warning. I expected something like Do Not Chew On Cord While Unit Is Plugged In. That's pretty straightforward.


On a side note, it's bloody hot. I need to mow, but I find the very idea demoralizing. Instead, I am making potato leek soup in my fancy new Le Creuset pot, and building a new floor lamp. Yes, I am having a very productive weekend, after doing nothing and laying about on a boat all day yesterday. Later I will take my car to the shop to repair a cracked bumper, and tomorrow (another day off, whee!), I will do laundry. So productive!


ETA: This potato leek soup is awesome.

Comments

[broodingferret.livejournal.com]

"I...don't know what that means."

It's lawyer talk for Don't Chew On Plug While Unit Is Plugged In.

duh:P

[pneumatik.livejournal.com]

I think it's a Japanese lawyer writing a warning in Japanese, and then translating it, poorly, into English. Or maybe the lawyer is Chinese.

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Maybe the lawyer is Chinese, and the language was Japanese. I don't know what the clock is, but it was Extremely! Bright! last night, so I had to lay it on its face so I could go to sleep. I wonder if they tint clocks the way they tint car windows.

Clocks

[(Anonymous)]

Or maybe the warning actually said "You won't be able to sleep near this clock because it resembles the day star shining directly onto your closed eyelids."

You would think that someone could figure out how to make a clock darker between sunset and sunrise and brighter during the day. Honestly, how hard could that be???
J

Re: Clocks

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

No gloating!