Why are there so many outlet timers for letting you set something like a lamp to come on a 7 pm every night, but there are almost no outlet timers that let you turn something on and have it automatically turn off after, say, an hour, or 25 minutes, or 77 minutes?
@vonxylofon I've seen ones like that, but they are all for 220V, rather than the 110V we use here in the states, so I'm not sure they would work for me
@MLE_online Thanks, but that's the opposite. There are tons of 'dusk-to-dawn' switches out there. I was looking for a 'dawn-to-dusk", turn on in the morning, off at night.
@MLE_online The water fountain in the yard for the birds. We'd rather the water sound not be attracting Javalina, Coyotes, and other stuff at night. Have one of those timers you mentioned now, but I like the idea of daylight controlled better.
@MLE_online so much of tech shopping these days is finding out what random ass name the commercial / industrial / marketing apparatus has decided to call it
@misternineham longing for the days when you could walk into a store and say to an employee," I need a thing that's like a timer for an outlet, but not one of the automatic ones that comes on every day. I need one that you turn on and it stays on for a certain amount of time" and they would reply, "oh, you need a countdown timer. i'll show you where those are"
@MLE_online i'll never forget going to my local electronics store (long since closed) and asking the lady for a strange value of fuse for which my supplier was out of.
without breaking eye connect, she reached in back of her to a large case of fuses, slid a box of five out, seemingly at random, and handed it to me. 'twas correct of course. 68¢
@misternineham The year was 1977. A young Misternineham, then known as Lad Nineham, was 8 years old at the time . It was a precocious errand for someone of his age, but then the full beard he already sported was precocious as well
@MLE_online ah yes, that was the summer of the great fuse shortage, the "short circuit summer" the grey beards called it.
my mentor, mastersevenbeef, knew it was a folly to send but one bumbling apprentice out in such overcurrent-protection-less madness, but he also knew that good ole Mildred was minding the store, and would save him from himself
@misternineham I saw a statue of mastersevenbeef in grand junction, colorado, once. I never made the connection between you and him until you mentioned it right now.
I couldn't tell why they had erected a statue of him there because the blowing desert sands had completely enveloped its base up to his ankles
@MLE_online i know very little myself, of his days out west. he would always say that some day he would return to "that damn valley" and finish what he had started. he would say it softly as if to himself, but with a look of furor in his eyes, almost madness.
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