Alphabetical clock

[ve2uwy@mastodon.radio]

@catsalad

GET THAT OFF MY TIMELINE!! MY BRAIN IS NOW BROKEN IRREPARABLY!!!

[soldusty@beige.party]

@catsalad
The perfect clock to curse someone with. I think it's made me cross-eyed 😵‍💫.

[nm8a@mastodon.radio]

@scottmichaud @catsalad

Someone is ahead of you and made a watch that works that way. Oh, and it’s purely mechanical.

https://www.franckmuller.com/crazy-hours

[hamonwry@mastodon.world]

@catsalad

Also known as a Dementia time piece.

[haayman@todon.nl]

@sjaakkeuvelaar @catsalad that's not alphabetical, that's alfabetisch

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@feliz @catsalad Yeah, up to a certain age, you can retrain. Specialization always takes a toll, though.

My grandma lived her entire life in the same appartment with a balcony door lever on the right side. At the age of 70, they installed a new door with the lever on the left side. Strong neural connections made her hand instinctively reach to the right side at first try for years after.

For strong sensory feedback specialization, neural adaptation is very limited.

https://soulunity.substack.com/p/how-a-1964-cat-experiment-reveals

[nm8a@mastodon.radio]

@catsalad

Replied in a sub, but there is a mechanical watch that essentially works this way. The hour hand skips to the appropriate hour. Note that it makes the same distance jump—5 clock hours each hour. Still, an amazing bit of ingenuity in watchmaking.

https://www.franckmuller.com/crazy-hours

[nuclearoatmeal@beige.party]

@catsalad

Well. Aren't you the fancy one? Taking the Express while the rest of us are in our handbaskets.

[spacelifeform@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad

It's odd how opposite numbers attract.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@catsalad Would not want to have to face that after a glass or two of wine. :)

[michaelporter@ottawa.place]

@catsalad @TheBreadmonkey Thanks, that's been bothering me for *years*

[tankgrrl@hachyderm.io]

@catsalad Thanks, I hate it.

*curls into a ball*

[rockpick@mastodon.social]

@catsalad tihi

[ianamartin@thecanadian.social]

@catsalad

[kjempeslu@climatejustice.social]

@catsalad ccklo!

[overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social]

@davew @christopherbrown @catsalad With servos and a micro controller, you could do better than that. At the top of the hour, you can spin the hour hand to the correct hour, so it reads correctly per the labels all the time. (We've had self-setting analog clocks for decades now that have the electromechanical bits for this trick already inside them. My highschool had them in the 90s.)

[sarah@sosial.link]

@catsalad@infosec.exchange

[katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org]

@catsalad

I like how it darkens the sky virtually every other hour, so you can take a short nap.

Thank you for being so considerate.

[yoh@hachyderm.io]

@catsalad, and there's a fun thing. The displacement of the numbers has some logic:

1 and 2, 5 and 10 - multiple by two.

11 is opposite to 6 and is followed by 5, 12 is opposite to 9 and is preceded by 3; 11=6+5 and 12-3=9; the operation depends on the second operand position (if it goes before or after on the display).

The other pairs differ by one.

[beaufils@mastodon.social]

@catsalad Correction Alphabetic english clock 🙂