Category: Technology

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  • Golf: Sports Shades

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    Golf: Sports Shades

    These amber-tinted MaxSight contact lenses from Nike filter out blue light to reduce glare and improve the visibility of baseballs, tennis balls and other moving targets. A gray-green version gives golfers an edge by enhancing the dips and curves of a distant putting green. Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts credits his MaxSights with boosting his…

  • A Day in the Life: New Furnace #5

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    I arrived home this evening and cast my eyes upon the new thermostat. With its 6cm high display and 2.5cm high characters I was able to read it from the front door. It reported 70F. While we do live in a metric country I chose to have the temperature set in Fahrenheit. Why? More precision,…

  • A Day in the Life: New Furance #4

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    “Is it on?” “It must be, it’s getting warmer” “Wow, it’s quiet”

  • A Day in the Life: New Furance #3

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    The homeowner’s guide for the thermostat has 31 pages and starts with: Your decision to choose the Carrier Infinity Control puts you in a select group of homeowners who understand the value of precise comfort control and appreciate the simplicity of an easy-to-use, intuitive, user interface. It astonishing to me that the manufacturer could so…

  • A Day in the Life: New Furnace #2

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    As previously noted we are having a new furnace installed. The labourers are still here, but they just installed the thermometer: it has a scroll button!!!