Rally Sport / Rally cycle computer – umsc03schwe1# – for Schwinn bicycles – manual

Rally Sport Rally cycle computer – umsc03schwe1# – Schwinn bicycles – manual

Rally Sport / Rally cycle computer – umsc03schwe1# – for Schwinn bicycles

LR44 battery, alkaline 1.5 volt button cell, now replaced by 357/303 or just 357 battery.

 

The display on the screen of the cycle computer was getting dim, and I couldn’t find the manual that came with it until today.  I was able to putz around with the single button that is found on the back of the unit before finding the manual.  But I figure that other people might have the same cycle computer and not know how to re-set everything after replacing the button cell battery.

 

The battery used to go by “LR44″, I think that is the alkaline version, and that the silver-oxide version is “357″ or “357/303″.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LR44_battery

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Energizer-Zero-Mercury-357-Battery-3pk./16880682

I’m officially tired of zombie movies, and all things zombie.

Just finished watching “Night of the Living Dead 2012 – 3D Animation”, starring Andrew Divoff of “Wishmaster” fame and Denice Duff of “Subspecies” fame.

Boring as can be, slow-moving (one might say zombie-like), and pointless.  I’m officially tired of all things zombie, and the upcoming movie based on “World War Z” will probably put me to sleep.

DIE ZOMBIES, JUST DIE ALREADY!

Euronews Midday – WYCC Channel 20-3 – “23.5 MILLION Americans under-or-unemployed”

Euronews Midday – WYCC Channel 20-3 – “23.5 MILLION Americans under-or-unemployed”.

Just caught this on TV.  America is in the middle of the Great Depression II, and we won’t climb out of it until the housing market recovers.  It typically takes FIFTEEN YEARS after a housing bubble bursts for the market to be back to “normal”.

“Pink slime”, latest beef additive, rejected even by fast food restaurants.

I came across this website, I wanted to pass it along.  You KNOW something is wrong when even fast food restaurants, which have razor-thin margins and cut costs wherever they can, reject this stuff.  Surprisingly, it’s already in 70% of the ground beef found in supermarkets.  “Pink slime”.  LOL!!!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-nn-pink-slime-20120309,0,2443055.story

John V. Karavitis

 

Another important article from Cracked.com: “Six things rich people need to stop saying”.

Kinda puts things in perspective during this Great Depression II.  Not that it helps pay the bills, you understand, but it DOES help put things in perspective.  For the poor.  About the filthy rich.  ENJOY!

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop-saying/

Routledge Critical Thinkers series – list of philosophers

I came across the Routledge Critical Thinkers series a while ago, and I am, for the most part, enjoying these books.  Here is the list as of March 5, 2o12, philosopher or field of study with publication date:

Hans-Georg Gadamer     12/31/12

Raymond Williams     12/31/12

Karl Marx     12/31/12

Paul Gilroy     12/31/12

Frantz Fanon     12/31/12

Martin Heidegger            03/24/11

Giorgio Agamben             04/13/10

Jean-Paul Sartre               10/15/09

F. R. Leavis                          07/13/09

Sigmund Freud                 04/26/09

Jean Baudrillard               12/07/08

Edward Said                       10/15/08

Hannah Arendt                 10/05/08

Emmanuel Levinas          09/11/08

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 08/26/08

Theodor Adorno              11/28/07

Stephen Greenbaltt         10/21/07

Paul Virilio                           07/24/07

Antonio Gramsci              04/20/06

Homi K. Bhabha                12/19/05

Louis Althusser                 11/16/05

Jacques Lacan                    11/10/04

Stuart Hall                           05/17/04

Simone de Beauvoir       11/12/03

Julia Kristeva                      10/15/03

Roland Barthes                 07/30/03

Slavoj Zizek                         06/04/03

Michel Foucault                05/07/03

Friedrich Nietzsche         04/23/03

Jacques Derrida                 03/12/03

Paul Ricoeur                       12/04/02

Jean-Francois Lyotard    11/13/02

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak          10/23/02

Judith Butler                      03/27/02

Gilles Deleuze                   09/05/01

Maurice Blanchot             02/14/01

Paul de Man                       01/24/01

Edward Said                       12/20/00

Fredric Jameson               09/06/00

American Theorists of the Novel             05/24/06

Feminist Film Theorists                                 08/23/06

Theorists of the Modernist Novel             11/26/06

Cyberculture Theorists                                  12/12/06

Theorists of Modernist Poetry                   09/30/07

NetFlix makes my laptop overheat!

I monitor my laptop’s CPUs temperatures using HWMonitor (free software off of CNet.com).  Whenever I stream video over NetFlix, my CPUs start to overheat, hitting as high as 100 degrees Celsius (that’s the boiling point of water).

I’ve read on the Web that this is due to two factors:  (1) NetFlix encrypts its stream and this has to be decrypted for viewing, which takes CPU cycles, and (2) unlike a desktop, there is only one CPU here.  (Actually, I have a dual-core, but they mean that there is no separate video card.  I also don’t think that ‘s true in my case.)

Anyway, it’s VERY ANNOYING, and does nothing to extend the life of my laptop.