Isn't a stopped digital clock usually off?
Well...fine. But in your example, it's not stopped, just slow. So it matters.
Jayne: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that ought to change. Mal: Do you think it's likely to?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Apr 21, 2005 12:43:22 pm PDT #7776 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Topic!Cindy - Apr 21, 2005 12:43:37 pm PDT #7777 of 10001
What is even happening?
Isn't a stopped digital clock usually off?
It could be stuck. Or frozen in a time warp by some guy who knows his girlfriend is going to dump him, but also knows she's going to have pity sex with him first, and so he does this thing to stop time while they're having sex...
Nutty - Apr 21, 2005 12:43:45 pm PDT #7778 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Isn't a stopped digital clock usually off?
Yes, or flashing 12:00 endlessly, not that I have experience with that sort of thing.
Is Hil (and the collected peanut gallery, but Hil is the one with, like, the Formally Recognized Math here) telling me I can't count?
Okay, that's not actually news.
-t - Apr 21, 2005 12:47:10 pm PDT #7779 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have formally recognized math. A B.S., so appropriate to these discussions.
Are the clock radios that had flippy things that, um, flipped every minute considered digital? 'Cuz those can stop.
JZ - Apr 21, 2005 12:47:17 pm PDT #7780 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
'00 -vs- '01 Millenium thing
MillenNium thing.
t /spelling geek
JohnSweden - Apr 21, 2005 12:47:32 pm PDT #7781 of 10001
I can't even.
Yes, or flashing 12:00 endlessly, not that I have experience with that sort of thing.
I have an old favourite digital alarm clock which still "works" but the time it tells is off by a random number of hours and minutes. I didn't even know they did that.
Nutty - Apr 21, 2005 12:50:24 pm PDT #7782 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
A B.S., so appropriate to these discussions.
Took a long look at this and said, IBS? That is a degree now? Then I figured it out. Clearly, having some lexical problems in addition to the basic calculia problems. Next up? Apraxia!
Burrell - Apr 21, 2005 12:51:57 pm PDT #7783 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oy! Frances has a fever today. And there's so much going on around the house, she is having a hard time staying down for her nap. Mommy worn out.
PS--I have nothing to add to the stopped clock discussion except that Scalia uses the same line (about it being right twice a day) to describe those rare (in his view) instances when a Justice should not follow his version of strict constructionism.
shrift - Apr 21, 2005 12:51:58 pm PDT #7784 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Anyone mind if I destroy the universe right now? I mean, y'all are talking math, so the mathy Buffistas will all die happy, and the unmathy Buffistas will be so glad the math is over, so I should just go ahead and make with the Earth-shattering kaboom, yes?
-t - Apr 21, 2005 12:52:43 pm PDT #7785 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm actually curious about the 23:59 answer, if you care to explain the reasoning.
I don't have IBS, so far as I know. And I think I'd have reason to know.
(etask: If the universe ends now, do I get to take my vacation next week?)