h a l f b a k e r yQuis custodiet the custard?
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There is a broken clock at work. Every time I pass it I feel a zen-like moment of peace as I reflect that whatever I intend to do and have done, it's always the current moment and it always will be.
This wristwatch would not display hours, minutes, months, or years. Its smallest measure would be centuries.
As such the mechanism would simply consist of a dial the user could move to display anything from "century 0" up to "Century 9", followed by the painted letters "third millennium, common era"
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//a dial the user could move// |
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Not sure I get this, why would you want to set the time wrong? |
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You could get away with making it fixed, with no moving parts. Offer a lifetime guarantee. Your descendents can deal with the inevitable flood of complaints and returns in 80 years time. |
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Or just one word, "now", scratched carefully into the face. |
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Doesn't it take a short amount of time to read, parse and mentally process the information? So "now" would not be technically correct? |
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You could edit it to "then", then I guess - I'd argue that the
true moment of now is the experience of that mental
process - now just doesn't feel the same unless your brain
has time to wrap itself around a moment - at least that's
how it is amongst us humans. |
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I'm loving your first paragraph. I want to use it somewhere.
Hmmm. Find an empty space at work for me guys. Clear the
bulletin board. |
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How about 3 markings on the face: "Past", "Present",
"Future". A single hand, either permanently on "Present", OR
have a camera on the face (surreptitiously) so when you
look at it, it starts at "Past" and moves smoothly to "Future"
(taking about 2 seconds); when you look away, it resets to
"Past". |
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[+] for the correct spelling of "aeons". |
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Sounds like a sea creature, or something on a petri dish. |
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No, it sounds like "ay-ee-ons", which is closer to the original
pronunciation. |
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Ok, you can be right, just this once though. |
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//[+] for the correct spelling of "aeons".// - or should it be "æons"? |
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You could argue that , whilst æ used to be a separate letter of the (old) English alphabet, it has evolved into a mere typographic ligature, and that there is no difference between æ and ae, just as there is also no difference between fi ligatured together and fi written as standalone independent letters. The opposite direction of uu and w I suppose. |
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Sounds like any rail service in the UK |
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Yikes, I made a booboo. edited "second" to "third" |
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Glad you noticed quickly and corrected it promptly! |
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It's the 41st Millennium somewhen. |
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