Archive for the ‘clocks’ tag

Freak!

Thursday 11th October, 2007 @ 10.52pm BST Europe/London by Pandammonium

I have discovered I can tell the time better on an analogue clock if it goes anti-clockwise instead of clockwise: what you might call a backwards clock. But there can’t be numbers on it, otherwise it just confuses me.

The Hubster says I’m a freak.

So does my supervisor.

What do you think?

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Procrastinator’s clock again

Wednesday 28th February, 2007 @ 12.47pm GMT Europe/London by Pandammonium

I have the clock running on my computer as I type. I’ve had to switch off the clock displayed in the task bar in order to make it effective, so now, if I have a window open covering the whole screen, which is usually the state of play, I can’t see the time at all. What I need is for to have the “time” displayed in the systray, maybe all the time, but certainly upon minimisation of the application window.
What do you reckon, Dave?

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The procrastinator’s timepiece

Tuesday 27th February, 2007 @ 3.09pm GMT Europe/London by Pandammonium

I came across the procrastinator’s clock, but the developer seems to have mistaken procrastination for a lack of punctuality. I have both, so I know the difference. Procrastination, in my experience, is a cause of impunctuality, such as delaying the moment of getting up, getting ready, doing something else instead of getting ready. Having the clock set fast doesn’t always help, because you usually remember that the clock’s fast. Having different clocks set fast by different amounts doesn’t work either. Having a clock that shows a time that may be up to 15 minutes fast might work, because you don’t know exactly how fast, if at all, it is.

This, however, doesn’t solve the cause. The cause, as I said, is procrastination. Knowing that time is ticking away just doesn’t help get things done. Look at me now: I’m on the Internet instead of studying. I know I should be studying and that time is passing, but I’m still procrastinating. There is no solution to procrastination that I have come across, but it is possible to put it to good, constructive use, if you structure it.

More of my thoughts and experiences of procrastination:

• Pandammonia: procrastination

Via Last.fm.

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