Dr. Dobb's Journal, and my watch

[pne]

I got a letter from Dr. Dobb's Journal yesterday inviting me to try out a subscription -- one year for $45 or two for $69. But last year it was $70 for one year (international)? How do they figure that out? However, I don't think I'll take up the offer in view of what I wrote about DDJ recently.

In other news, my watch decided this morning that it was "Monday 24 January". That is rather strange since it's a radio-controlled watch and should theoretically always show the correct time and, as I understand it, date.

When I tried to reset it (by pressing both buttons simultaneously -- not an easy feat since they're recessed and I need pen-tips or something similar), it started showing all LCD segments simultaneously. And stayed that way, rather than going to 0:00 and counting seconds from there until it had received enough radio signals to know the correct time.

Maybe the battery is flat? Or is the thing broken?

Comments

[n-true.livejournal.com]

Oh, watch broken?

Maybe it's just as simple as a temporal wake which appeared over your bed while you were sleeping and transfered your chronograph into a hyper- or subspace dimension where the time ticks differently. When you woke up, the temporal wake must've closen but the amount of chronoton particles in your chronograph didn't change and that's why it showed a different date. By pressing the two buttons, you increased the inner pressure of the chronoton particles which interferred with the neutrino level inside and made the micro flux compensator emit enough antimatter to annihilate with the positive matter in your version of the chronograph in our universe and completely melt down all the liquid crystal cells inside it.

[pne.livejournal.com]

You, Sir, have been watching too much Star Trek.

(My watch has decided to start working again this morning. Maybe the chronotron field stabilised again.)