[time-nuts] Lord Vetinari wall clock

Orin Eman orin.eman at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 12:13:16 EST 2014


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 <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:

> 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 (and very
> much liked) Terry Pratchett’s writings.
>
> Bob
>
> > On Nov 2, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Mike Baker <mpb45 at 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.   I would love to put one of these up on a doctor's
> > patient waiting room wall just to see what people's
> > reactions are.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpqFU4SGe1Y
> >
> > I suppose this would not generate the same reaction
> > if it were done to a digital (numerical) clock.
> > Hmmmm---  maybe if a "tick" sound were added...?
> > Nah...  Whoever heard of a digital clock that ticked...
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpqFU4SGe1Y
> >
> > Mike Baker
> >
> >
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