December 2011
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Things I learned today: 12.30.2011
The easiest and fastest way to activate a replacement Sprint phone.
How to print a part label directly from iRepair (for personal reference: iRepair > action widget on right for repair part > print label).
Finally, once and for all, the most straightforward way to put a device into restore mode (power down, hold home button, plug into sync cable already connected to computer).
How to...
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Things I learned today: 12.29.2011 edition
How to finish up a mixed-ring out repair.
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Christmas
Went to Pryde’s Christmas Eve morning before work. I love that place. It makes me feel like everything in the whole world is going to be just fine.
The longest, slowest, most boring day at work ever.
A quiet Christmas Eve night with the boy making peanut butter balls and watching Elf in bed.
Coffee and present-wrapping and no-bake cookies in the morning with the boy.
He gave me...
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Stresses
Haven’t wrapped any Christmas gifts
Threw two weeks’ worth of clothes haphazardly in a suitcase for a four-day trip — with no idea if any of it matches
House-sitting for the next four days (and we all know I get terribly homesick)
Cat-sitting for the next four days (and we all know I’m terrified of cats)
Tried to spend time with my family only to be made fun of by...
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I...
New things I briefly owned, but then lost, tonight
Alternate title: White elephant gift exchange is rough.
Sock monkey lunch box
Carlisle Cullen Barbie doll (his face sparkled!)
RAM-less blue+white Power Mac G3
Handle of UV wedding cake vodka
Book titled ‘All My Friends Are Dead’
In the end, I went home with a handmade image of a coworker as Magneto, iPhones flying around him; an award for ‘best smile;’ and a...
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Things I learned today: 12.16.2011 edition
-How to take the battery out of an iPhone 4.
-How to reseat the #4 cable in a 3GS.
-How to have an elephant-in-the-room conversation without turning bright red.
-There are kind people in this world.
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Things I wish I could say I learned how to do...
-Use SNAP to set up a new account and activate a new line.
-That’s definitely a no.
Tonight
I wish I was 20 again, listening to Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem in the backseat of a rental while Mark Hardy drives us to Minneapolis, through a blizzard, for a journalism convention none of us really care about. We mostly signed on for the free trip and the swanky hotel.
I was so alive then. I wasn’t afraid of anything and I took every risk without a second thought. The whole world was...
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Things I learned today: 12.11.2011
-How to use Voice Over on a Mac — or at least, the very basics. I can turn it off and on and do basic computer navigation. Using VO without watching where I am on the screen would be a totally different story, though! This is definitely something I want to keep working on and learn more about. A handful of my coworkers teach and work with this regularly; I’d love to be part of that...
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Things I learned today: 12.09.2011
-How to reset usage statistics.
-That usage statistics are [seemingly] arbitrary, considering they don’t state at what point they began counting.
-Some good problem-solving skills.
-Updating the Facebook app for iPhone apparently resets all notification settings now — AKA it turns them all back on. Thanks, Facebook. Where would I be without instant knowledge of new comments and...
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Things I learned today: 12.08.2011
I learn a lot of things. I’ve decided to start keeping notes of them in order to learn them more permanently and in-depth by reminding me to review and further research. Most of these new bits of knowledge probably will relate to my job — a non-tech gal working in the technology industry needs all the help she can get.
-I learned how to uninstall and reinstall iPhone drivers on a...
