AlbyMar 26
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠
Alphabetical clock
Mar 21 at 5:43pmWeb
Show threadoshyMar 21
@catsalad We gotta start installing these just to fuck with people
Show threadcutekitaMar 22
@ocean I think more efficient for that would be clocks where the numbers are moved clockwise one position, so where 1 usually is, is 12 and where 2 usually is is 1. with this clock you'd immediately notice something is wrong, with a slightly wrong clock you need to pay attention to it and then you'll be even madder
Show threadPi FisherApr 17

@cutekita @ocean a room I use somewhat often has a clock that's upside-down. That is: its mechanism has been hung upside-down, but the number plate has been rotated to be rightside-up.

When the minute hand points straight up at the start of an hour, the hour hand points between two numbers.

Show threadNightDice Apr 18

@3geek14
Friend of mine has a clock where the mechanism has been hung mirrored, but the clock face is normal, so when it shows 5, it's actually 7.

@cutekita @ocean

Show threadMBEverdingApr 16
@ocean @catsalad in the physics kitchen of my university back then was a clock with positive angular velocity (counter clockwise)
Show threadNorman WilsonApr 16
@MBEverding @ocean @catsalad When I worked in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs in the 1980s, the Unix room (a common room with terminals and comfy chairs and the coffee machine) featured a number of odd things. One of them was a clock on which everything, numbers and hands, ran counter-clockwise.
Show thread🇨🇦 CleoQc 🍁🦜🧶🚐🌈Apr 16

@oclsc
i'm partial to this clock from the Florence cathedral.
it's the Paolo Uccello clock at the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (a.k.a. the Duomo) in Florence

@MBEverding @ocean @catsalad

Show threadJennyFluff  💾Apr 17
@CleoQc @oclsc @MBEverding @ocean @catsalad @LocuYinglet
Show threadJyrgen NApr 17
@MBEverding @ocean @catsalad In the flat I had as a student, my favourite place was the bed. In my favourite reading position, I had the head against a cushion on the wall. With a strategically placed small mirror on the opposite wall, I could see exactly the face of a clock — not a grandfather clock, but one that had belonged to my grandfather. I learned how to read a mirrored clock pretty fast.
Show threadDavid Penfold Mar 21
@catsalad That is horrible 🤯😁
Show threadSjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺🍋Mar 21

@catsalad
Nope.

Acht-elf-vijf-vier-negen- een-zeven-zes-tien-drie-twaalf-twee.

Show threadArjen HaaymanMar 21
@sjaakkeuvelaar @catsalad that's not alphabetical, that's alfabetisch
Show threadJaredMar 21
@catsalad I believe my friend Smeagol the Raccoons expression accurately portrays my expression upon setting that.
Show threadImbrium PhotoMar 21
@catsalad Just add a sign underneath that says "Out of Order" ...
Show threadFlipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈Mar 21
@catsalad USians will do anything to avoid using the 24 hour clock.
Show threadnicksname he/himApr 16
@flipper
such a beauty   
@catsalad
Show threadNoxy 🐾🏳️‍🌈Mar 21
@catsalad now make it work purely mechanically!
Show threadBear Jew 2.0 Mar 21
@catsalad Not in german
Show threadTone 🚴‍♀️Mar 21
@catsalad Ping @ruari
Show threadMikeMar 21
@catsalad I told the wine buyer at our store that I had dusted and alphabetized the wine 😆
Show threadAriel Millennium ThorntonMar 21
@catsalad The obvious accessory is a one-year one-page alphabetical calendar to hang underneath it.
Show threadAndi HMar 21
@arielmt @catsalad
🙂
April
August
December
February
January
July
June
March
May
November
October
September
Show threadTobias 🌒🌕🌘Mar 22
@AH_99 @arielmt @catsalad Thanks. I hate it 
Show threadran makMar 23
@AH_99 @arielmt @catsalad get my birthday out of winter?? i'm here for it!
Show threadGreg Burrell 🦞🚴🥔Apr 17
@AH_99 @arielmt @catsalad Jan-Jul-Jun-Mar feels like how summers actually work around here
Show threadChristopher BrownMar 21
@catsalad Does it still give the right time twice per day?
Show threadGolden Bunny of Destiny 🕯Mar 21
@christopherbrown @catsalad At least twice a day. 4 and 7 are in the correct places.
Show threadJeffMar 21
@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.)
Show threadKimMar 21
@catsalad Sponsored by Microsoft Excel.
Show threadKnightmareMar 21
@catsalad 🚫 😜
Show threadToni AittoniemiMar 21
@catsalad which language is the reference?
Show threadsvaclavMar 21
@gimulnautti @catsalad it's written in alt text 🙂
Show threadBen 🏴‍☠️Mar 21
@catsalad Illegal
Show threadJames Baker 🍁Mar 21
@catsalad This is like a classic M&Co (https://www.theprintarkive.co.uk/products/3936-m-co-askew-clock-tibor-kalman?srsltid=AfmBOopXkvB5LpwPqC9kA7VpJzby0H13gC48NDlMAIdtgdftaA_se--t&variant=54873096290687), who made fantastic clocks and watches, including a very important one for cat owners!
Show threadKim ScheinbergMar 22

@GrumpusNation @catsalad
Came here to say this. I owned this M&Co watch when I was in high school

https://www.theprintarkive.co.uk/products/3936-m-co-askew-clock-tibor-kalman?srsltid=AfmBOoqbPsmM-MJj1ZIxl29dtgQrsRpk9FrqtIFxYP3d4iZqjp2GAQDA&variant=54873096290687

M&Co ‘Askew’ Wall Clock (Tibor & Maira Kalman)

Show threadJames Baker 🍁Mar 22
@kims I bet all your assignments were handed in on time…
Show threadAmorpheusMar 21
@catsalad Looking at that clock is like inverting the vertical axis of your mouse for one day. Retraining causes massive neural disassociation, leaving you unable to use a mouse after switching back to what you believed to have mastered.
Show threadfelizMar 21

@Amorpheus @catsalad

I have set the keyboard layout on my phone so that it runs on the QWERTY keyboard layout when using English language and on the Dvorak keyboard layout when typing in German. It took two weeks to be fluent on both layouts and now my brain doesn't even notice the difference anymore.

Show threadAmorpheusMar 21

@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

How a 1964 Cat Experiment Reveals the Power of Perception

What You See Is What You Become!

Soulinsights
Show threadLeelooMar 21
@catsalad
One for @ruari
Show threadHermannus StegemanMar 21
@catsalad oe nice.. a different one in every country
Show threadI am Jack's Found 404Mar 21

@catsalad

E-I-E-I-Ooooooh 🎵

Show threadVarxMar 21
@catsalad I sat here for far too long going "that's not in lexographical order. That would be 1, 11, 12, 2,3,4,5..." Until I realised it's by the English spelling of the number.
Show threadÆ Sea F.Mar 21
@catsalad Does anyone read the numbers, or their names for this matter, on an analog clock face anyway? You may wipe the numbers off completely and yet I'll be able to tell the time.
Show threadMichael ☕️Apr 17
@hcf @catsalad
Cf. the Movado Museum Classic
Show threadRob van Kan🔻Mar 21

@catsalad The right order is

5 - cinque
10 - dieci
12 - dodici
2 - due
9 - nove
8 - otto
4 - quattro
6 - sei
7 - sette
3 - tre
11 - undici
1 - uno

Show threadMungen Cakes ✅Mar 21

@catsalad

The time is now EI:FOEL

Show threadMungen Cakes ✅Mar 21
@catsalad Or 8:411
Show threadJohan SköldMar 21
@catsalad the best part with this is the clock would be different in different places
Show threadVeviserMar 21
@catsalad T - time takes up far too much of the clock face. A whole 25%!
Show threadMx. Alba Mar 21
@catsalad

Totally wrong it should be 8 3 1 11 9 10 12 2 4 5 6 7 (acht drie een elf negen tien twaalf twee vier vijf zes zeven)
Show threadMx. Alba Mar 21
@catsalad

Or maybe.... 5 2 10 12 8 9 11 4 7 6 3 1 (cinq deux dix douze huit neuf onze quatre sept six trois un)
Show threadDavid Penfold Mar 21
@MxAlba @catsalad Et treize heures jusqu'à vingt-quatre?!
Show threadScott MichaudMar 21
@catsalad I kind-of want to see one work, which would involving jumping around, especially if the minute ticks are also alphabetical.
Show threadTerenceMar 21

@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

Crazy Hours - Franck Muller

Franck Muller
Show threadJonathan LamotheMar 27
@scottmichaud You're welcome.
(link posted by soneone elsewhere in the thread)
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock

Show threadAda 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 21
@catsalad I hate you and I hate this clock. My eyes are cursed and my tears will be forever tainted. I am less useful for spell components now. I don't like this fact.
Show threadAknavah AllimMar 21
@catsalad
I tried to understand this in my language until I realised this was English 😵‍💫😀