Re: [time-nuts] Lord Vetinari wall clock

2014-11-03 Thread Tony Finch
Mike Baker mp...@clanbaker.org wrote: I have been tempted to build a (hacked) wall clock (after Lord Vetinari) that has an erratic second hand that sometimes skips ticks and sometimes ticks several times very rapidly but still keeps correct time. Sounds a bit like the Corpus Clock

[time-nuts] Lord Vetinari wall clock

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Baker
Time-Nutters-- I have been tempted to build a (hacked) wall clock (after Lord Vetinari) that has an erratic second hand that sometimes skips ticks and sometimes ticks several times very rapidly but still keeps correct time. I would love to put one of these up on a doctor's patient waiting room

Re: [time-nuts] Lord Vetinari wall clock

2014-11-02 Thread Bob Camp
Hi We’ve gone around on this one a few times. The group seem to divide into two groups. One group suggests that anything other than perfect accuracy is not a TimeNut subject. The other group seems to come up with “that’s neat … do it this way”. Part of it seems to depend a bit on having read

Re: [time-nuts] Lord Vetinari wall clock

2014-11-02 Thread Orin Eman
I made one and replaced a normal wall clock at work. No-one really noticed unless it was pointed out. I got it from here: www.akafugu.jp/posts/products/vetinariclock/ Out of stock at the moment though. On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Bob Camp kb...@n1k.org wrote: Hi We’ve gone around on

Re: [time-nuts] Lord Vetinari wall clock

2014-11-02 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Sunday, November 2, 2014, Mike Baker mp...@clanbaker.org wrote: Time-Nutters-- I have been tempted to build a (hacked) wall clock (after Lord Vetinari) that has an erratic second hand that sometimes skips ticks and sometimes ticks several times very rapidly but still keeps correct time.

Re: [time-nuts] Lord Vetinari wall clock

2014-11-02 Thread Morris Odell
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