Reply by Jan Panteltje●September 16, 20212021-09-16
On a sunny day (Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:07:03 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote in
<shtuaq$r89$1@gioia.aioe.org>:
>Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> On a sunny day (Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:50:47 -0700) it happened John Larkin
>> <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in
>> <efr1kghsuam2876t3stnvh2so1612kq9jl@4ax.com>:
>>
>>> I'm always on time. I just know what time it is, somehow.
>>
>> Here that is easy, you can hear the church bells
>> the highest uncertainty is at night
>> half past 12 1 boing
>> one o'clock 1 boing
>> half past 1 1 boing
>>
>
>That's because you're one of those sans-culotte Continental types. In
>these parts there's the Westminster chimes before each hour.
>
>That makes 1:00 go
>
>BONG bong bong bong, BONG bong bong bong; BONG
>
>Cheers
>
>Phil Hobbs
Thanks, just learned something.
Reply by Phil Hobbs●September 15, 20212021-09-15
Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:50:47 -0700) it happened John Larkin
> <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in
> <efr1kghsuam2876t3stnvh2so1612kq9jl@4ax.com>:
>
>> I'm always on time. I just know what time it is, somehow.
>
> Here that is easy, you can hear the church bells
> the highest uncertainty is at night
> half past 12 1 boing
> one o'clock 1 boing
> half past 1 1 boing
>
That's because you're one of those sans-culotte Continental types. In
these parts there's the Westminster chimes before each hour.
That makes 1:00 go
BONG bong bong bong, BONG bong bong bong; BONG
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
http://electrooptical.nethttp://hobbs-eo.com
Reply by Tom Gardner●September 15, 20212021-09-15
On 15/09/21 16:05, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:22:27 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>
>> Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm most impressed that you found the a-long-time-ago detector.
>>
>> It was in a kitchen waste box on the landing next to the bedroom door,
>> so I remembered seeing it every time I went to the bathroom. I have a
>> very good filing system known as 'chronological stratification'.
>
> Barbaric. I carefully arrange everything in blue plastic stacking bins
> and *then* forget where they are.
RV Jones' filing system for WW2 intelligence reports was similar,
except that he remembered where a document was. He found that the
best system, since any taxonomy-based filing system is bound to
be ambiguous - mainly telling you where something /isn't/
>Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm most impressed that you found the a-long-time-ago detector.
>
>It was in a kitchen waste box on the landing next to the bedroom door,
>so I remembered seeing it every time I went to the bathroom. I have a
>very good filing system known as 'chronological stratification'.
Barbaric. I carefully arrange everything in blue plastic stacking bins
and *then* forget where they are.
--
Father Brown's figure remained quite dark and still;
but in that instant he had lost his head. His head was
always most valuable when he had lost it.
Reply by Liz Tuddenham●September 15, 20212021-09-15
g_wolf <g_wolf@howl.com> wrote:
> On 9/14/2021 2:22 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> > Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm most impressed that you found the a-long-time-ago detector.
> >
> > It was in a kitchen waste box on the landing next to the bedroom door,
> > so I remembered seeing it every time I went to the bathroom. I have a
> > very good filing system known as 'chronological stratification'.
> >
> >
>
> Sounds like my vertical layer system. :-)
Mine sounds similar to yours but with a higher entropy content.
--
~ Liz Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk
Reply by g_wolf●September 15, 20212021-09-15
On 9/14/2021 2:22 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm most impressed that you found the a-long-time-ago detector.
>
> It was in a kitchen waste box on the landing next to the bedroom door,
> so I remembered seeing it every time I went to the bathroom. I have a
> very good filing system known as 'chronological stratification'.
>
>
Sounds like my vertical layer system. :-)
Reply by Jan Panteltje●September 14, 20212021-09-14
On a sunny day (Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:50:47 -0700) it happened John Larkin
<jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in
<efr1kghsuam2876t3stnvh2so1612kq9jl@4ax.com>:
>I'm always on time. I just know what time it is, somehow.
Here that is easy, you can hear the church bells
the highest uncertainty is at night
half past 12 1 boing
one o'clock 1 boing
half past 1 1 boing
Reply by Liz Tuddenham●September 14, 20212021-09-14
Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm most impressed that you found the a-long-time-ago detector.
It was in a kitchen waste box on the landing next to the bedroom door,
so I remembered seeing it every time I went to the bathroom. I have a
very good filing system known as 'chronological stratification'.
--
~ Liz Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk
Reply by John Larkin●September 14, 20212021-09-14
On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:19:48 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:35:20 -0500, John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/13/2021 5:46 PM, John Larkin wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:45:17 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>>>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Brent Locher <blocher@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, September 13, 2021 at 12:53:00 PM UTC-4, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>>>> A long time ago I made a cable tracer from a coil of 2,000 turns of wire
>>>>>>> on an old solder spool, connected to a high gain amplifier that fed
>>>>>>> headphones. After using it for the job that needed it at the time, I
>>>>>>> put it away in a box "just in case".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Today I realised that my watch was no longer on my wrist although I
>>>>>>> remembered putting it on this morning; a thorough visual inspection of
>>>>>>> the house (= chaotic mess) failed to find it. I was just resigning
>>>>>>> myself to being without it for several months until it deigned to turn
>>>>>>> up of its own accord, when I remembered that the cable tracer had been
>>>>>>> able to pick up the magnetic field from its stepping motor at a distance
>>>>>>> of over half a metre.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It took about 30 seconds of searching before I heard a distinctive
>>>>>>> repeated 'blop' noise coming from a pile of papers under the kitchen
>>>>>>> table. The watch must have had fallen off my wrist and slipped in
>>>>>>> between them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you Mr. Faraday!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> ~ Liz Tuddenham ~
>>>>>>> (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
>>>>>>> www.poppyrecords.co.uk
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good job! The more important thing is that you passed the "I dont have
>>>>> dementia after all" test
>>>>>
>>>>> It might be a false negative.
>>>>
>>>> I've never lost a watch. But I've never had a watch.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Never learned to tell time? Yeah, it would be useless to you then.
>>
>> Actually, I was the school champion clock reader in 3rd grade. The
>> teachers were amazed.
>
>And now that you aren't in third grade anymore, you can do it without
>even needing a timepiece! ;)
>
>Cheers
>
>Phil Hobbs
My parents always kept their clocks set 15 minutes ahead, and they
were always late to everything. We sneaked into the back in church
every Sunday after things were started.
We went to double-feature movies and just showed up any time, and sat
until we got back to the point where we came in.
I'm always on time. I just know what time it is, somehow.
Reply by Phil Hobbs●September 14, 20212021-09-14
jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:35:20 -0500, John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 9/13/2021 5:46 PM, John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:45:17 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brent Locher <blocher@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, September 13, 2021 at 12:53:00 PM UTC-4, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>>> A long time ago I made a cable tracer from a coil of 2,000 turns of wire
>>>>>> on an old solder spool, connected to a high gain amplifier that fed
>>>>>> headphones. After using it for the job that needed it at the time, I
>>>>>> put it away in a box "just in case".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Today I realised that my watch was no longer on my wrist although I
>>>>>> remembered putting it on this morning; a thorough visual inspection of
>>>>>> the house (= chaotic mess) failed to find it. I was just resigning
>>>>>> myself to being without it for several months until it deigned to turn
>>>>>> up of its own accord, when I remembered that the cable tracer had been
>>>>>> able to pick up the magnetic field from its stepping motor at a distance
>>>>>> of over half a metre.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It took about 30 seconds of searching before I heard a distinctive
>>>>>> repeated 'blop' noise coming from a pile of papers under the kitchen
>>>>>> table. The watch must have had fallen off my wrist and slipped in
>>>>>> between them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you Mr. Faraday!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> ~ Liz Tuddenham ~
>>>>>> (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
>>>>>> www.poppyrecords.co.uk
>>>>>
>>>>> Good job! The more important thing is that you passed the "I dont have
>>>> dementia after all" test
>>>>
>>>> It might be a false negative.
>>>
>>> I've never lost a watch. But I've never had a watch.
>>>
>>
>> Never learned to tell time? Yeah, it would be useless to you then.
>
> Actually, I was the school champion clock reader in 3rd grade. The
> teachers were amazed.
And now that you aren't in third grade anymore, you can do it without
even needing a timepiece! ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
http://electrooptical.nethttp://hobbs-eo.com