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I find it fascinating that I annotated one of your ideas in 05 [Night], yet your profile page states you arrived in 07 |
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Great for school clocks, especially in notoriously boring classes. [+] |
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[+] In fact, build me one and I will buy it. |
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[fries deux] Heh, a mystery unsolved thus far..... |
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I would certainly buy one! |
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I swear I've actually felt this myself, in a slightly modified form. |
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Sometimes when I look at a clock, it seems like the seconds hand is waiting for over 3 seconds initially. Then it resumes the motion, as if waking up from sleep-mode because no one was observing it. |
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That'd be a Berkeleian clock, [chime]. There's a whole separate idea there. |
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This reminds me of a prank some friends and I prepetrated ca. 1973. The clocks in our high school had no second hands, but relied on a pulse sent every minute from a master clock to advance the minute and hour hands of the clocks in each classroom. |
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We discovered that we could tap into certain circuitry and advance the clocks from a point in the Chem lab, using a relay and some simple logic devices. This interfaced to the telephone system, which happily provided pulses when certain lines were on hold, (more or less at random!) |
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We had some very short classes during the last week of our senior year! |
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Call it the Big Nurse clock. "To Bromden, time moves slowly for the rest of the day; the Big Nurse adjusts it in her office."--One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
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Often when I look at a clock I think I see
the second hand moving backwards, or
observe a long delay. I seem to recall that
some scientists studied this phenomenon
and discovered that the brain goes into a
temporary hypnotic state when looking at
a stationary object which we think is
moving, or vice versa. |
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Can't remember where I heard it, or link to
it - sorry. |
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