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Physical World
Apr. 9th, 2009 02:50 pmI have a personal smoothie maker, the Kenwood Smoothie2Go. I love it. It's like those cheap-ass Magic Bullet (warning, plays sound) machines, but this time made by adults, and not under delusions it is also a cheese grater, and not as prone to breaking as the Bullet did I had in LA. (On the other hand, it does not have as awesome a series of infomercials as the Magic Bullet. Awesomely hokey that is, and for infomercials that is saying something. It had 'characters'. Recurring ones. My personal fav was of course Hazel. She hooks up in the follow-up infomercial.)
Anyway, after intense twice-daily use for like a year or so, my little machine I bought for under £20 at Tesco stopped working. Turns out this one part pops out easily, and if I could just get a replacement for it... I checked Kenwood's UK website, which wants me to go to another website for parts. The device isn't even listed, but you can fill in a form and have them get back to you.
Christ, the worst: I have to describe a physical piece of hardware that sits on top of this one thing to drive the other thing and is completely custom to this kind of machine and not described in the manual anywhere, nor found in nature, in a one-line box. This is the worst thing to ask of me in any language. I don't do the physical mechanical world with its drive-crankaroons and its gear-torquelaxes. The pieces in between it sits are described in the manual, though, so I did my best. We'll see what comes of it.
Oh god if I could only order these things by describing them in terms of software process flow or the interaction of social minorities in white überculture I'd be all set. But just describing things, help me.
Oh look at that, while I was writing email came in from them! With a link to a part! It's called a 'drive coupling'. Yup, let's order that. 3 of them, in case they blow out.
Anyway, after intense twice-daily use for like a year or so, my little machine I bought for under £20 at Tesco stopped working. Turns out this one part pops out easily, and if I could just get a replacement for it... I checked Kenwood's UK website, which wants me to go to another website for parts. The device isn't even listed, but you can fill in a form and have them get back to you.
Christ, the worst: I have to describe a physical piece of hardware that sits on top of this one thing to drive the other thing and is completely custom to this kind of machine and not described in the manual anywhere, nor found in nature, in a one-line box. This is the worst thing to ask of me in any language. I don't do the physical mechanical world with its drive-crankaroons and its gear-torquelaxes. The pieces in between it sits are described in the manual, though, so I did my best. We'll see what comes of it.
Oh god if I could only order these things by describing them in terms of software process flow or the interaction of social minorities in white überculture I'd be all set. But just describing things, help me.
Oh look at that, while I was writing email came in from them! With a link to a part! It's called a 'drive coupling'. Yup, let's order that. 3 of them, in case they blow out.
