LED Multifunction Digital Alarm Clock
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http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/LED-Multifunction-Digital/p/20000000...
Bad eye's?
Extra big digits for the ones among us (like myself) who don't really have a 20/20 vision without their contacts of glasses.
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mix 'n match
is it funny? is it hidious? you decide...
http://www.gadgethouse.nl/scripts/prodview.asp?idproduct=482
catch it..
this is a therapy for the snoozer...Every time the alarm goes off, the ball hangs a bit higher.
http://www.core77.com/corehome/2005/01/hayat-benchenaas-hanging-radio-al...
You can't do better than this...
... in my opinion - a GREAT alarm clock !
http://www.mosqueclock.com/
Query for whitespike
When you noted "you must never stop thinking," (about 20 messages back) did you mean that I _surely_ never stop thinking, or that I _should no matter what_ never stop thinking? If it's the former, then "Thanks." If the latter, then "Quiet! I'm busy thinking."
JOKE ALERT JOKE ALERT JOKE ALERT:
Mild humor intended.
Time is a human-made infrastructure...Pt. 1
It is like a dike placed on a wild river. The dike is not the river. The dike is the human-made limiting infrastructure placed on the river that allows humanity to exploit certain aspects of the river (i.e., increasing the regularity of its course and depth).
Time is a limiting infrastructure overlaid on a wild sequentially unfolding dimension of the universe that is ever unfolding differently in different places. On earth, the wild sequential dimension unfolds in a way that can be approximated in years that can be counted in approximately 365 twenty-four hour rotations of the earth around the sun. On Mars it unfolds differently. In a black hole it appears not to unfold at all. At the beginning of the universe, sequential events unfolded with incomprehensible suddenness and swiftness, if our time blinders are not fooling us about the beginning of the universe. Later on, the universe unfolded more slowly. Sequentially unfolding events are not a constant, except perhaps in some local sense. Sequential events are a variable. Time is an accurate, precise measure, like a yard stick, applied to a wild dimension of unfolding events. Some times time's unit of measure fits well with unfolding events, sometimes not.
The Hopi Indian's solution to the uneven variability of a sequentially unfolding universe was to overlay a time infrastructure in which all was present. The absense of tenses in their language suggests this. This time infrastructure has some moral-ethical benefits. If everything we do is present, then there may be more individual and group responsibility for what has been done, what is done and what will be done. But it also probably inhibits the Hopi from precisely coordinating certain kinds of activities across space and time and it inhibits the efficiency of letting go of the past and moving on to the next challenge. The Hopi apparently find this shortcoming one they can live with.
Time is a human-made infrastructure...Pt. 2
Westerners get very good material and strategic results from imposing a highly rationalized and standardized concept (centuries, decades, years, days, seconds, nanoseconds and so on) of sequential events based currently on something called Greenwich Mean time. They make war with great coordinated precision. They can send satellites to appointments with distant planets with pinpoint accuracy. They can create actuarial tables that allow them to make remarkably reliable forecasts of how long persons are apt to live at any given age. Alas, it also allows them to put the last war, the last crime against humanity, etc., in the past and assign responsibility/blame to prior generations. It dooms them to repeat the mistakes of the past, even when they do remember them. They think that the passage of time makes the current mistake something new and different.
The human-made infrastructure of time channels and rationalizes human use of the dimension of the universe that unfolds sequentially. It oversimplifies the dimensions that do not and gives them short shrift in the process.
With time, we can predict parts of the future and forget parts of the past. With time, we can organize factories and materials and shifts of people to work around the clock productively but unhappily, seven days a week, 365 days a year. With time, we can force people to wake up earlier than they would other wise. We can keep them up later. We can make them take less time to eat. We can give them an exaggerated sense of unimportance about how long they have to live when they are young, or an exaggerated sense of importance about how short they have to live at the end. With time we can define how long they expect to live. With time, we can take their time away from them with years in prison.
Someone seemed surprised that this thread about alarm clocks generated so much response.
I am not surprised.
Alarm clocks are daily reminders that warn us of the limits of the time infrstructure we are organized, determined and coerced by.
Time, as some southern author once said, is a bitch.
Is the Product Dose Header a Suppository?
Or is it the pill that Neo didn't take in The Matrix? 🙂
As for the clock link, not sure if I can go for a clock that looks like a pneumatic tube for shipping my pay check and deposit slip to the bank teller circa 1970.
Regarding the ancienne Greeks, I suspect that where ever you stand in relation to the road, the river, or the particle accelerator, the technology of time has its fundamentally painful effects. Socrates no doubt found free speech and hemlock to greatly shorten his alotment.
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