Alphabetical clock

[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 🙂

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@sarah aaaaaaah!

[scandigonian@pnw.zone]

@catsalad
My head hurts!

[vwdasher@mymasto.com]

@catsalad No

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@catsalad This has the same unhinged energy to it as when I accidentally sort my email by subject alphabetically.

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@kkarhan @catsalad Find a furry, or a trans person with knee high socks. Give them the clock and an aurduino, and it'll function.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@IanAMartin @catsalad they wanted to put him in a Pontiac Trans Am, and he said naw, it wouldn't fit the character, so he got a plain Firebird. The clock on the dash was probably not in alphabetic order.

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@catsalad This is what time blindness feels like!

[ianamartin@thecanadian.social]

@the_turtle @catsalad It seems odd that a Firebird and a Trans Am would be seen as different personality types, but being alive at that point I can reassure myself (and anyone else who might care) that they really were.

[devopscats@toot.cat]

@catsalad

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@kkarhan @catsalad LoL, if I were hiring for a tech position, any indication they are trans or furry would legit be a point in their favor. 🤣️
I don't know why these two demographics are so present in tech, but they absolutely are.

[ventousio@smugcat.moe]

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Je les mange les aiguilles, c'est comme des câbles ​​

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@MxAlba @catsalad Et treize heures jusqu'à vingt-quatre?!

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@IanAMartin @catsalad i think it was mostly that James Garner saw the character as more of a working stiff and the Trans Am upgrade would cost the character a lot more than the character would spend, particularly if they went whole hog and got the 455 High Output engine and all. Kinda like if they gave Columbo a Lancia instead of that gray old Peugeot 403 that looked like it leaked.