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Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
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My dad gave the this clock to my mom for their last Christmas. After he died, she gave one to each of us kids and we all love it, despite having hugely different styles.
That's a really styling clock, I must say.
There's this techno-retro thing
I love that one. Unfortunately, I think it fails the "will my cat break it?" test.
I goodled "funky clocks" - that produced some good hits....
It'd fail the "will I break it when it's making noise at 3a.m.?" test for sure.
I have a problem with digital clocks in that I have to translate it to the analog arrangement so that I have an accurate feel for what time it is. Otherwise I have to engage the math part of my brain and do some quick adding and subtracting to know if I need to be somewhere or if the show's about to start.
Connie- I thought I was the only one! I was trying to explain that for me, time is the hands on a clock, not the numbers, and no one understood me! I tend to translate 11:50 as "ten of eleven", which is also problematic.
So this morning I got to work abut 8:15, but the building maintenance guy was standing in the lobby telling people the power was out upstairs, and the elevators weren't working, but after a couple of minutes, the elevators started working, so I went up to the 8th floor, but the power up there was still out--no lights, no computers, and no ventilation.
Turns out there was a plane crash that took out a utility tower, and started fires. 3 hours to fix it, minimum.
I'm home now.
Damn.
Was that the plane that crashed into somebody's house, killing three people (IIRC)?
Yeah, I just heard about that. Crazy.
That's the one, tommyrot. It crashed into a daycare center! But there was no one in there.