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The clock for the person who has every other clock - Check it out: Cathode Corner has announced they'll soon be going to production with the most unusual Scope Clock.The latest version of the contol board is called the SC200. With its new software, it can do all sorts of interesting things.[Thanks, Rob!]Labels: time
—Mike @ 09:34
The 3 Meter Clock - I don't pretend to know how to make one of these (even with the instructions provided; I never did finish that Cleveland Institute of Electronics correspondence course as a teenager), but it's definitely one of the coolest and most inventive clocks I've run across. [Thanks, Rob!]Labels: time
—Mike @ 23:07
Where does the time go? - My first day with AT&T was 29 years ago today. Though AT&T itself is a distant ancestor to the spinoff-merged company I currently work for, it's been steady as she goes since then, with the exception of 4-month "retirement" period about ten years ago. Pretty amazing in this day and age, but truly -- where does the time go??Labels: time
—Mike @ 21:59
Next -Here is the thing about the future. Every time you look at it, it changes, because you looked at it, and that changes everything else.That quote kind of sums up the 2007 movie Next, which we just watched tonight. Nicolas Cage plays a character who has the ability to see a couple of minutes into the future. He's fashioned a low-key magic act using his ability in Vegas. There's one person, played by Jessica Biel, with whom his ability is supercharged, however, and he can see far further into the future when it involves her. Julianne Moore plays a government agent who believes the real magician is hiding behind his act, and she senses his ability might be able to save eight million people in southern California who are under an imminent nuclear terrorist threat. All in all, this movie was a whole lot more than I expected, and went by really fast. Well done, good sci-fi entertainment!
—Mike @ 22:07
Accurate to one second every billion years - Now, that's some clock! Using an aluminum ion, the logic of computers, and "the peculiarities of the quantum world", scientists at NIST have developed the clock as the new state-of-the-art atomic clock.By nudging atoms into a state in which they are, paradoxically, in two places at the same time, and then back again to a single state, scientists can achieve the Holy Grail - letting a single atom stand for both the zero and the one in a binary system.Read more about it here.Labels: time
—Mike @ 09:49
Gotta git me one of these -Combining the wonders of an Etch-A-Sketch with my own penchant for interesting clocks in one magical device, it's the Etch A Sketch Clock! [Thanks, Mace!]
Labels: time
—Mike @ 15:41
The Sunclock - TheLabels: time
—Mike @ 23:46
DST Calculator -Labels: time
—Mike @ 08:43
Jet Lag got you dragging? -
Now there's a web site called BodyClock.com that promises to teach you how to reset your internal clock to the new time zone through a "carefully timed program of light and dark at the times your body clock is most responsive"... a Father Time recommendation!
—Mike @ 11:31
Even Father Time didn't know this one - Did you know you can use your wristwatch as a compass? It never dawned on me that this could be done, but it makes sense, now that I think about it. Kind of like reverse engineering a sundial, which knows the direction and tells you the time. Here you know the time, so you can deduce direction (well, approximately, anyway). Pretty neat. For those of you with digital watches, you'll need to imagine the face of an analog watch first and use that. [Thanks, Steve!]Labels: time
—Mike @ 14:02
A different kind of clock - Father Time always find clocks fascinating, and this one's no exception, but some of the data is just a tad frightening. Info provided by various sources, including the World Health Organization, the CIA Factbook, the US Census Bureau, the UN and other official sources.Labels: currentEvents, time
—Mike @ 11:46
A Father Time Moment - At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07. Something to tell the grandkids about!
—Mike @ 22:55
So much for that idea - The latest tinkering with early Daylight Saving Time has apparently not produced the expected energy savings. Duh. Congress will be evaluating the effects of the earlier switch to DST, but don't hold your breath waiting for any rational decisions.Labels: time
—Mike @ 08:20
Happy... ummm... something to me - Useless information: As of 40 days ago, I'm now officially and exactly, 20,000 days old.Labels: time
—Mike @ 22:41
Watch it - It seems younger generations are not as enamored of wearing wrist watches so much, as they're now able to get the time when they need it from their various other electronic devices or computers. I like to take my watch off at home after work or up at the lake too, but I'd definitely feel naked without it when I'm out and about. Naked's not a good look for me.[Thanks, Barb]Labels: time
—Mike @ 13:12
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