There's this techno-retro thing
I love that one. Unfortunately, I think it fails the "will my cat break it?" test.
Buffy. When I saw you stop the world from, you know, ending, I just assumed that was a big week for you. Turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of 'apocalypse.'
Riley ,'Potential'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Feb 17, 2010 8:26:51 am PST #8872 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Feb 17, 2010 8:28:26 am PST #8873 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I goodled "funky clocks" - that produced some good hits....
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 17, 2010 8:28:52 am PST #8874 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It'd fail the "will I break it when it's making noise at 3a.m.?" test for sure.
Connie Neil - Feb 17, 2010 8:42:56 am PST #8875 of 30001
brillig
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.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 17, 2010 8:44:37 am PST #8876 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Lee - Feb 17, 2010 8:53:51 am PST #8877 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
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.
tommyrot - Feb 17, 2010 8:57:12 am PST #8878 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Damn.
Was that the plane that crashed into somebody's house, killing three people (IIRC)?
Polter-Cow - Feb 17, 2010 8:57:33 am PST #8879 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2010 9:01:27 am PST #8880 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Glad you're back where there's air, Perkins.
Can you put the grill on top of the microwave?
Der. With the height of my cupboards, I totally can. One more thing for my Costco trip.
tommyrot - Feb 17, 2010 9:02:50 am PST #8881 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Damn, this clock is unavailable and they don't know when it will be in stock: [link]
Here's the first clock that leaves an impression of the time by raising and lowering specific metal pins. Perhaps you remember the classic pin toy that leaves an impression of your hand in pins. This uses the same idea to display time. A precision-engineered mechanism lifts and retracts selected pins to display hours and minutes. It produces a satisfying click sound with every number change-similar to the sound of "flipping" seen at old-fashioned train station arrival and departure boards.
But perhaps it fails the "noise at 3 AM" test....