[time-nuts] A Time-Nut's Worst Nightmare

[Bob Camp]

Hi

The Diskworld series are *very* popular books. The tie in with them is likely enough to justify writing the code and seeing if the gizmo will sell. 

Bob

On May 11, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Didier Juges <shalimr9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked the web site. As far as I am concerned, the novelty factor died
> after about 5 seconds.
> I can barely understand why would someone actually spent the time to write
> code doing that for himself for fun, but making it into a commercial
> product?
> How many do you think will be in a landfill before the battery dies?
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Sarah White <kuzetsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/10/2013 9:52 PM, Ed Palmer wrote:
>>> Part of me thinks it's cute, part of me wants to kill it.  :-)
>>> 
>>> https://www.tindie.com/products/akafugu/vetinari-clock
>>> 
>>> Ed
>> 
>> Agreed...
>> 
>> I'm just thinking: "Ahhhhh noooooo. Oww oww oww oww ma brainz!!!"
>> 
>> Just the thought of being off by 250ms is upsetting for me...
>> 
>> I can't imagine anyone wanting a clock which will be inaccurate by
>> something like a second or two or perhaps more than that.
>> 
>> WTF!? Why?!
>> --Sarah
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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