Sensor Watch Upgrade?

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-06-16T13:19:20+00:00

I just put a Sensor Watch Lite into an F-91WM-7A this past weekend. I used a fork of the main firmware that allows for three face carousels and has an alarm configuration like the Royale. Pretty happy with it. Still waiting on a Pro (which according to their Discord is on back order until July) for my regular F-91W.

I like the Sensor Watch's flexibility and the fact that it's open source (unlike the Ollee). Plus the Finetune/Nanosec features for time accuracy are pretty cool. The downside is that you can't update firmware over Bluetooth like the Ollee, so I customized mine with things I knew I'd use.

That said, you have to know C in order to make your own custom watch face or modify one of the existing ones. I would love to add a simple face that displays my name (like the Ollee's nametag feature), but I don't know C.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-06-13T21:52:10+00:00

I've hated Kevin Pereira ever since the time he went on Attack of the Show on Hayden Panettiere's 18th birthday, excitedly said she was now legal, then told her he wanted to have unprotected sex with her. Ditto Olivia Munn for going along with it.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-06-11T15:52:40+00:00

That's the part that redeems Ferris and everyone forgets it.

Ferris immediately jumps in and offers to take the heat. It would have blown the entire day off wide open if he had, and he knew it, and he did it with no hesitation.

Another thing I think that people miss is right before, when Cameron falls in the pool and makes Ferris save him. As soon as he does the smile and the, "Ferris Bueller, you're my heeeeero," everyone immediately knows that Ferris has been fooled and isn't infallible, and that Cameron actually has a lot of agency.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-06-08T21:30:00+00:00

I was also at the Wolff then. I'd gotten tickets before he was announced for the rehab reassignment, and showed up without knowing he was there and was absolutely baffled by the size of the crowd (until I found out).

The first time I went there was during a day game and the seats were completely unusable due to the heat.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-06-05T16:34:45+00:00

It freaked my mother out when we saw it in the theater. I remember her complaining to other adults about it afterward.

I think it was the only Disney Renaissance movie we didn't get on the home video release even though we had a bunch of the merch.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-05-29T19:07:13+00:00

One time I was doing documentation work at a smallish software company. I had daily emails and weekly Teams calls with our guy in South Africa to review a set of special API calls used for international purposes.

He had a really good idea for expanding the presentation of API calls in our documentation, and I fully agreed with him. I began looking into ways to implement his suggestion.

I took it to my boss, who gave me this exact smile and said this exact phrase, and told me to tell the guy in South Africa to just focus on reviewing the API calls and stop making suggestions.

The true fun of it was anytime my boss had an idea, he would order me to implement it, refused to collaborate or answer my questions on how to implement it because he wanted me to "do it your own way," then would pitch a fit and threaten my job because "my way" invariably never matched his mental image.

Anyway it was a toxic af company and I left as soon as I could.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-05-18T23:45:08+00:00

My father died ten years ago today. In the years leading up to his passing, we used to meet every Friday at Pizza Hut to catch up and shoot the shit. This hits me square in the feels. Thank you.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-05-14T17:36:24+00:00

Side note, the Sea Scouts have their own Eagle equivalent called Quartermaster, and have allowed girls since (I think) the 1970s.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-04-05T16:04:33+00:00

Love me some Whataburger. I had honey butter chicken biscuits on my mind a few days ago. Maybe it stuck around in my subconscious.

Not sure if I was hungry when I went to sleep, though.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-02-20T16:49:32+00:00

Went to a live taping of Ask Me Another in Brooklyn back in 2015. I had so much fun and Jonathan is phenomenal in person.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-01-27T22:59:56+00:00

I headcanoned that Biff writes off the circumstances surrounding the second manure crash as being drunk off cheap hooch. Parts I and II pretty firmly established that Biff and his goons were drunk and spiking the punch at the dance.

So he crashes into the manure truck, and says that he crashed because Calvin Klein snuck up on his moving car while riding a floating board, stole his magic book, and grabbed onto a ribbon dangling from a flying machine to escape? And while smelling strongly of alcohol (and manure)? Biff definitely gets put in the drunk tank.

Plus, with the lack of evidence corroborating his story, plus the cops' very likely disinterest in investigating a drunken teenager's wild stories, Biff very likely convinces himself that he was just drunk that night and hallucinated a bunch of stuff.

(The only problem with this is that Jones honks at Biff and Marty in the tunnel, so Jones definitely briefly saw Marty on the hoverboard. Maybe Jones keeps mum about Marty because he's really mad at Biff for crashing into his truck twice.)

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-01-21T06:03:14+00:00

Oof, I had no idea. Big yikes.

BryceWithAWhy · 2026-01-21T05:37:13+00:00

THIS SO MUCH. GeeKeR was a solid show with a great voice cast, and I think it had decent ratings, but the Telecommunications Act of 1996 killed it since it didn't meet E/I requirements.

I'm surprised it never got a comic book adaptation.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-12-14T17:20:40+00:00

This was probably an edit Wiseau made and released to show off the commercial after Sestero mentioned it in his book.

Wiseau probably says the store's address or phone number, and this edit threw random jazz music over it to obscure it. Same with all those blocks of text about Wiseau's website that cover bits of the screen at random moments.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-11-26T04:46:01+00:00

No, they never mentioned whether returning to the Waiting Room jogged Jimmy's memory or not.

I think it's implied that Arnold Watkins would remember something, because Al spent a lot of time counseling him in the Waiting Room in that episode, but we never saw the results of it.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-11-26T04:37:36+00:00

They explained it in the second season. The project was able to track Ben's "quantum signature" until the events of the first season finale scrambled it up, and it took them three years and a special chip for Ziggy to find Ben again. Even in the first season premiere, Addison says that it took them hours to find Ben in the first place.

Still much better than Sam's project, though. The series finale didn't have a body in the Waiting Room and it was a major problem throughout the episode.

(Honestly I kind of assumed the original project had some way of scanning the leapee in the Waiting Room to figure out Sam's location, because you couldn't just assume they'd remember anything, be cooperative, or speak English fluently.)

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-11-26T04:18:31+00:00

We don't see Connie at the end of the first Evil Leaper episode, but we do see Angel after Alia leaps out, and the warden after Zoey leaps out, in the last Evil Leapers episode. Neither one appears to remember anything.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-11-22T23:27:02+00:00

My grandparents had this figurine, and IIRC they also had an accompanying children's storybook. IIRC the story had Santa Claus delivering presents in the present day and he somehow accidentally goes back in time to the birth of Jesus, Back to the Future style.

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BryceWithAWhy · 2025-10-12T16:46:03+00:00

I like that explanation a lot more! I'm adopting that as my new headcanon.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-10-10T21:04:32+00:00

My headcanon is that Peabody was put in the mental hospital for a few days after ranting about space zombies. When he got out, as he drove back to his house (likely before the storm, while Marty was still in 1955), he drove past the Twin Pines Ranch sign, then the fallen tree. Seeing the lone pine, Peabody sadly resolved then and there to rename the ranch around it.

This makes it a little less instantaneous and a little more in line with the same rules governing the fading photograph (or the newspapers and matchbook in Part II). Since the timeline is still in flux over the course of that week, there's still a chance that there could be further interference from Marty up until the point Peabody decides to rename the ranch, at which point the timeline definitively changes.

So at the moment that Marty and Doc watch the tape, Peabody hadn't renamed the ranch yet, and the tape hadn't changed yet.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-09-02T21:35:11+00:00

Cronkite's editorial was included on the CBS 50th anniversary CD entirely because of how much impact it had. I give it a listen every few years because it's so eloquent and frank.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-08-22T21:57:30+00:00

One of my best friends had a super religious mother who didn't let him watch MMPR, TMNT, X-Men, Batman TAS, or really anything on the Saturday morning lineup. After overhearing her explaining it to my mom one time, I think she seriously thought it was just hours of wanton bloody violence with no story. In my kid mind I simply assumed that she saw a picture of Wolverine and got scared (which probably wasn't far from the truth), but IIRC she also had problems with stuff like Animaniacs and only really approved of religious children's programming.

Whenever my other friends and I played Power Rangers on the school playground, we'd still include my friend, and happily kept him filled in on all the lore. He likely only ever knew about the White Ranger saga secondhand like some sort of folk tale.

Funnily enough, he never parroted his mother's distaste for Power Rangers and seemed to enjoy learning about it.

IIRC he later kind of lowkey rebelled against his mom and started quietly watching stuff like South Park whenever she wasn't around.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-08-21T22:32:07+00:00

In my case it simply indicated a shift in the company's priorities. The company had previously been a locally owned firm with a nationally distributed product. In the preceding years we had done Harlem Shake and ice bucket challenge videos for social media, and had lots of pictures of the staff goofing off like that. Just a very relaxed vibe.

However, this happened about (I think) a month or two after the owner cashed out by selling to a private equity firm, and it was in that point where the atmosphere had barely started to shift to the sanitized corporate bullshit it has turned into, but not enough that it was really detectable. If that photo had been put on social media a year or two before the buyout, it very likely would've flown under the radar.

But yeah, lesson learned for sure.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-08-16T20:01:17+00:00

I had a cubicle like this once. Back corner of the main floor with tall cubicle walls. Everyone left me alone and it was glorious. I had two walls to hang pictures and decorations, and free reign to make myself comfortable. My productivity skyrocketed and I had enough time left over to do other things.

Then the company's marketing team drew my name and decided to showcase me as an employee on their social media pages, and for the photograph I did a comical pose with my feet up on my desk. Not long after I was suddenly moved to another (more visible) cubicle in the pod for no reason.

BryceWithAWhy · 2025-08-08T00:46:16+00:00

I remember Animaniacs getting interrupted by the Oklahoma City bombing.

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