Randomness Redefined

I don’t remember how I found this but I stabled across this alarm clock from Brookstone that claims that you never have to set it even after the power goes out. The clock also has the typical features an alarm that either beeps or activates your favorite radio station but one of the big things for me is that you can set a different alarm for every day of the week. This is something that I think I would use as I have a different wake up time every day and presently I wake up at 6 AM every day just to make sure that I don’t sleep in and miss classes or my shift at work.

To my knowledge this is the first alarm that I have seen that remembers all of its settings when the power fails. The way that this supposedly works is that inside of the clock is a ROM chip that the settings are stored on whenever they are changed and if it works like other ROM chips once electricity ceases to flow through the chip whatever the last settings that were stored to the chip are locked in and then once power is restored the chip informs the clock of the last settings and so the never has to mess with resetting everything. Why in the hell hasn’t this been added to car radios? At any rate the next time I am up in KC or St. Louis I am going to see if I can find a Brookstone store and see what one of these babies is like in real life and for $60 it seems like a pretty good deal to have a clock that sets its time via the atomic synchronization signals and never has to be reset after a power outage. I’m pretty sure this means that I am terribly geeky and that shiny electronic gadgets I am sure to buy if they are interesting enough.

In other news I am pretty much recovered from “The Plague” as I refer to the over two weeks that I was pretty much incapacitated. I have two 10 to 12 pager due in the next two weeks as well as my 24th. birthday so I will be pretty busy and I probably will be somewhat absent from updating this site like I have been lately. I guess that is what happens as you approach the last semester of your college career. Also, this month marks the one year aniverary of my employment at work so yay for stable emplyment or something. On a random note we had some pretty rough sever weather rocket through the area tonight so I hope everyone was alright in the aftermath, I think my car suffered some hail damage but I won’t know till the morning. Take care of yourselves and drop me a comment if you wish. Peace.