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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/

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

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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.