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12:22 PM
Cats are so weird in behavior, we obviously need to love them.
I believe that's an evolutoinary trick.
I am bad at spelling, I know :(
 
@πάνταῥεῖ they are technically near feral because they aren't really domesticated yet. That will probably change over the next couple thousand years or so
 
@πάνταῥεῖ touche they domesticated us
 
He he, we allowed to onebox here.
Cats are so funny if you're willing to do reflection.
 
12:38 PM
@πάνταῥεῖ This one thinks he's funny:
 
@tinker Are you trying to tell me something?
 
@πάνταῥεῖ Nope? Just an innocent joke, no metacommunication going on :)
 
@Tinkeringbell OK I am fine with joking, and that was a good one. We have hard times posting here recently ya know. That's why I asked precausciosly
 
@πάνταῥεῖ ;) We'll figure it out, I still think the room is nice :)
 
I got a lotta fun attending today so far :)
 
12:46 PM
@πάνταῥεῖ that pleases me
 
I happen to be allergic to cats, so...
 
@Tinkeringbell Cool owl
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog o.o
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog There seems to be a broad spectrum of life being denied from your perception, that's a sad aspect
 
12:48 PM
Meh, it's not that severe, and I take allergy meds anyway.
 
My culture hates cats
 
My mom was like it's dirty and some superstitious Bs about cat hair
I was like 'i'm petting the cat. '
 
I always come across this kitten when I walk past this house a couple blocks away.
 
@πάνταῥεῖ Thanks :D
 
12:50 PM
My sister's a cat lover, however.
 
Do you understand their basic behavior? I I don' tbut still love then, The're so flury aand fluffy :D
 
@πάνταῥεῖ and will cut you
 
Speaking of animals...
@YvetteColomb Haven't seen a farm photo in a while
 
@JourneymanGeek Minor scratches, well fine with that
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog luckily for she's not SE staff yet... ;)
 
1:06 PM
Squirrels like to roam around the university campus. There's a myth that if you see one with exceptionally white fur, you'll pass your exams :)
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog if I was one of the university's biologists I'd trap a few and see if albinism is present at unusually high rates in the university squirrels
 
Yeah, the exact myth is if you see an "albino squirrel". But there are non-albino squirrels with white fur, that usually hang out around the computer science building.
@Mgetz Here's an example
 
If I was evil I'd set it up so the general squirrel population in the area either has albinism or melansim so they are either pure white or black
just to mess with the students
and teach bio majors
 
1:12 PM
@Mgetz For comparison, here's a "normal" squirrel.
@Mgetz Here it is drinking out of that water tap it's sitting on
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog holy crap this looks like the plaza outside the engineering center at CU, but I don't think that's paved with brick
 
This is actually in Austin, Texas
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog UT?
 
congrats on getting in. My father is an alum.
 
1:17 PM
@Mgetz What did he study? (Our CM Catija is also an alum from there.)
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Chemical Engineering, although he never really used it. He ended up at AT&T pre-breakup
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Yep, he was one of the last to work at (effectively) the same company his entire career.
 
@Mgetz If I may ask, what year did he graduate?
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I don't actually know, mid to late 70s IIRC
I know he was already working for bell as of 1980 and then moved to colorado in early 1982
he worked for conoco before that
 
1:20 PM
@JourneymanGeek I eventually changed my mind and cast the final reopen vote against that question.
@Mgetz Interesting.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I'm pretty sure he started pre 75 because he did have a draft deferment which he wouldn't have needed after
 
2:11 PM
that's a pretty cool story
 
My mom's clock was also early by 5 minutes :/
 
At home, I have an analog clock that retrieves its time from a radio transmitter
 
@Somewhat so were many of ours for years ;)
 
2:44 PM
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog how??
@Somewhat my mother do it in purpose for years
 
A radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC) is a clock that is automatically synchronized by a time code transmitted by a radio transmitter connected to a time standard such as an atomic clock. Such a clock may be synchronized to the time sent by a single transmitter, such as many national or regional time transmitters, or may use multiple transmitters, like the Global Positioning System. Such systems may be used to automatically set clocks or for any purpose where accurate time is needed. One common style of radio-controlled clock uses time signals transmitted by dedicated terrestrial longwave...
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog oh, thought it was ordinary clock that you somehow hacked.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I have one on my office wall. The 'two hands' analogue display indcates time, time remaining until [something], at a glance, and from any angle. If I need to know how much time is left before Anne gets home, I glance at the wall clock, not the time display on my taskbar.
 
I mean... I've heard about people hacking smart fridge to play games on it, so.... ;)
 
2:49 PM
@ShadowtheWelcomingWizard 'A wild frozen beefburger appears'
 
3:02 PM
@ShadowtheWelcomingWizard The directory touchscreens at Austin's airport alternate between showing a map of the airport and playing a game
 
3:40 PM
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog That's not analogue: that's still digital...
This is an analogue clock...
 
53 mins ago, by Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@ShadowtheWelcomingWizard https://www.amazon.com/SkyScan-Atomic-Wall-Clock-Analog/dp/B00B5TPVQS/ref=cm_cr_‌​arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Digital clock that resembles an analogue clock
If it has springs and stuff, then it's analogue...
 
@Fabby It has real hands like a real analog clock. The only difference is that the circuitry at the back is different.
It still has a quartz crystal mechanism for keeping the time; it connects and re-synchronizes with the radio time server on occasion
If it kept time with the radio all the time, the single AA battery would be depleted after a short while.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Anything using quartz is digital.
If it's a wind-up or jewel-adjusted automaton, it's analogue.
 
@Fabby How about ones that use the electrical grid frequency?
 
3:46 PM
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I would call that an electrical clock.
Still not analogue enough
What do you call the little brass circles with teeth inside an analogue clock
(can't remember the word in English)
 
All that needs is a very simple synchronous AC motor. In 60 Hz countries you only need three identical gears to get hours, minutes, and seconds.
(I guess that's why you don't see them in 50 Hz countries.)
@Fabby Gears?
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Thanks!
 
or cogwheels
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I got one of those on 50Hz when I was 12: it just got upshifted with a transistor to 60 Hz.
It had a real mercury switch to turn off the ararm...
@JohnDvorak Thanks too!
 
This is what I called as... umm... I dunno?
(40 minutes long video)
 
3:50 PM
@Fabby Not so elegant. All you need is to change out the first gear with one that's 5/6th the size.
Of course, economies of scale rears its ugly end
 
(sorry both Sonic and John, not words you use everyday, so I tend to recognize them when I read them, but cannot remember...)
 
@JohnDvorak Yeah, in British English, but in American English we call them gears.
 
@Somewhat Thhat looks analogue...
 
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@Fabby And you want a Rolex with eight ticks per second ;-) Such a smooth sweep.
 
How can I count seconds if the second hand moves smoothly?
 
3:53 PM
And then there's those fancy watches that are powered by hand motion rather than batteries.
 
@Loong Nah, there are better analogue watches for a much cheaper price than a Rolex...
@JohnDvorak Third hand?
 
It's both a second hand and a third hand
Trinitarians will understand
 
I have a mixed feeling with smooth clock... on one hand, it looks slick, on the other hand, yeah... no clear second *tick*.
 
I agree!
 
Grid frequency clocks lack ticks
My sister hates the sound of clocks ticking.
 
3:56 PM
On unrelated case, I kind of internalized 120 BPM inside my head
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I can't fall asleep near a loudly ticking clock, but have no problem with watches.
@Somewhat I have one of those too, but without beats.
I normally wake up 5 min before the alarm goes off.
 
user271002
@Somewhat still better than the second hand of a railway clock
 
ha! :)
 
@Fabby Ever had a pendulum clock?
A nice physical property of a pendulum is that no matter its energy, it will always swing with the same rate.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog My dad has one.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Yup.
rate, not distance
 
4:02 PM
I have one with a fake pendulum mechanism: it uses a quartz crystal to keep time, but also has a magnet underneath that repeatedly changes polarity to keep a pendulum swinging.
@Fabby That's what I said.
 
An old-fashioned grandfather clock was one of the ways to have an accurate clock without spending too much money.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I never implied you were wrong!
Just stating that I remember my physics classes too... ;-)
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Wow!
Picture?
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog :O :O :O
I haven't seen one of those outside of Switzerland for a very long time
 
@Fabby Radio clocks are much cheaper now, though.
 
You Swiss?
 
4:06 PM
@Fabby American.
 
My dad had this... rotating... pendulum(?) one...
 
@Somewhat A friend had that for a while, but it broke.
 
user271002
@Fabby If you like that, get a Junghans ATO. ;-)
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Yes, definitely.
Nah, But I still wand an automaton wristwatch: No batteries, no winding up needed!
Once / year at new year: adjust time.
 
@Fabby While the Americans could just put up 60 Hz grid frequency clocks in their train stations and be done with it, Europeans were stuck with wind-up clocks due to their 50 Hz frequency. Hence the plot of Hugo.
 
4:09 PM
Googling that...
 
Nowadays... NTP server?
 
@Somewhat Nice idea: an analog clock that runs just like the one I have, but getting its signal from an NTP server rather than the radio.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Cool! Thanks!
@Somewhat NTP server or better: a GPS clock or if you've got a really big budget: Atomic clock.
(I remember the time when all NTP servers world-wide used to have an atomic clock attached, nowadays they use GPS clocks)
AFK
 
Atomic clock :O
 
Well, at least radio clocks source their info from atomic clocks.
 
4:16 PM
Should I believe this one with $30 price tag...
 
@Somewhat Here in the U.S., for this reason, we often mis-refer to them as "atomic clocks".
 
ah, make senses, unfortunately...
o well, time to sleep...
(ugh, Monday is coming...)
nite~
 
 
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5:50 PM
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Well, I suppose that you could describe the system as atomic clocks with a remote display unit. Also, a shyster could point out that the clock was made up of atoms: hydrogen and carbon in the plastic case, silicon in the crystal and chip, copper wiring etc.
 
6:07 PM
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Also known as "Fake clocks" :P
 
 
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7:43 PM
@Somewhat unevitsbly
 
8:13 PM
That's probably a radio-clock at that price.
 
8:24 PM
 
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9:01 PM
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog oh will do. One place you will always find them is here :)
 
@πάνταῥεῖ sock clocks? :P
 
9:30 PM
I would give up Stack Exchange if I only had something else to fill my time.
I would find something else to fill my time if I can only give up Stack Exchange.
If I took all the time I spent mindlessly reloading question lists to look for something interesting and put that into something productive, I could probably retire right about now.
 
10:29 PM
Morning
 
(whatever you say at this time of day)
 
Good mornighternoonvening?
 
10:48 PM
Sweet dreams?
 
Don't let the bed bugs distract you from having a nice day.
 
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