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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: DrSbaitso on Saturday, April 28, 2007, 09:25:56 AM
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Yesterday morning was my last exam of the year, and it was a big one. Since I had a low mark coming in, and the exam was worth 60%, doing well was critical. The night before, I had prepared my dual redundant alarm system:
1. Mental alarm: this almost never fails me. If there's something important I have to wake up for, I usually wake up within a couple of minutes of when I plan to, alarm clock or no.
2. Mobile phone: in case my mental alarm fails, I set my phone to play the William Tell Overture at highest volume at 7:30 am.
3. Computer: as an extra backup, I set the computer to play The Imperial March from Star Wars at 7:40 am.
So I felt pretty comfortable going to sleep that night. Until morning comes along. I wake up to the sound of chimes, and, as I prepare to roll over and go back to sleep, a voice in the back of my head tells me I'm forgetting something. Oh shit! I have an exam today! What time is it? It's 8:40, and the exam starts in 20 minutes. So I put on some pants, run to the exam hall, write the exam, and all ends well.
Why had my alarms failed? My mental alarm I can't speak for, but my mobile phone had crashed and given me a White Screen of Death, and my alarm clock software on my computer had some kind of bug where it didn't load the MP3 file properly.
What had saved me? A spam email for Viagra and Cialis, sent at 8:40 am, that escaped Gmail's spam filter, and triggered my Gmail notifier. I'll never complain about spam again.
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That's a pretty awesome story.
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Hahaha!!
Awesome story.
Glad you made it to your exam
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Haha that's awesome. :)
Might I suggest an actual alarm clock? (The ones that don't run on software. ;) )
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Yes, I'm definitely getting an actual alarm clock after this incident!
I'm thinking about Clocky (http://www.nandahome.com/products.clocky.html).
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That's a neat clock! Kind of expensive, though. I just have cheap piece of shit that barely works, but it still goes off in the morning so... yay.
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Good to know.