Bravo, bravo, bravo! On several occasions I have pointed out that there is more to time-nuttery than striving to achieve an Allen deviation measured in zeptoseconds. The silence in response is always deafening. If I want to struggle with phase angles of billionths of a degree, I can go down to my basement Chamber of Horrors and do that. But I can also sit in my den and listen to all my mechanical clocks fighting over who strikes the hour first. I revel in the cacophony of Westminster, St. Michaels, Whittington, Rochester, Magdalen, Parsifal chimes all sounding at once, sorting them out in my head, savoring the dissonances. I dote on the barometric drive of an Atmos, the twirling of an el cheapo quartz filament clock, the squawking of a cuckoo, and the constant clatter of a Congreve
I have a cesium clock, rubidium, GPS, etc. in the Chamber and I love tinkering with them but I will never put a quartz watch on my wrist or an "atomic" clock, even a 60 cycle synchronous clock on my wall. Different strokes, I suppose. Bill Westminster Quarters, Rochester Quarters, Magdalen Chimes, Parisfal Chimes, Guildford Chimes On Tuesday, May 8, 2018, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > In 'The Perfectionists' Simon Winchester Looks At History Of Precision > Engineering > > https://www.npr.org/2018/05/07/608590826/in-the- > perfectionists-simon-wincheste > r-looks-at-history-of-precision-engineering > > KELLY: You write about that in such a personal way in the book. You > include > the detail of your Sunday morning ritual, of walking room to room in this > old > farmhouse you live in and correcting all the clocks, you know, pushing one > hand forward a little bit and another hand back, and that you love the > inaccuracy of that, that they're all chiming totally out of sync by midway > through the next week. > > WINCHESTER: Yes, a lovely description in Dorothy L. Sayers' book "Gaudy > Night" about the clocks in Oxford chiming midnight in friendly > disagreement. > Well, I like clocks having friendly disagreement. I loathe digital watches > with, I mean, the one I dare say you're looking at in the studio now, with > microsecond countdowns. Let's take it a bit easier. Let's be a bit fuzzy > in > our needs and desires and wishes. > > ----------- > > I don't know if the book discusses time. If you aren't familiar with his > work, he's good. > > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. --Mark Twain We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. --Desmond Tutu _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
