I love Clocky.

Is Jupiter that piercing bright light in the sky? How I wish I had a telescope. I tried binoculars but it just became a slightly larger, very bright, jiggly dot.

I think Jupiter should be the brightest thing in the night sky besides the moon (if it's out).

Running out of spoons is not running out of energy, it's running out of *ability*.

Exactly, which is why this sentence in particular jumps out at me as problematic:

Most people start the day with unlimited amount of possibilities, and energy to do whatever they desire

This statement puts the bar for "healthy" so high that most actually healthy people will not meet that standard, and so it ultimately does a poor job of distinguishing between, say, having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and just being really tired. I think it's a good metaphor hidden in an unfortunately poorly expressed piece of writing.

Clocky would drive me nuts.

I don't own Clocky, I just love him. My cell phone has been my alarm for years.

I adore Clocky in principle, but I suspect that actually getting one would be the second non-negotiable grounds for divorce (the first being, of course, letting the other win at fencing.)

The other day I saw an alarm clock that has this approx. 2" ball that sites on top. When the alarm goes off, it throws the ball, and to get it to snooze you have to find the ball and put it back on its spot on top of the clock.

I think that's a more elegant solution that Clocky, who admittedly has a very cool name.

eta: Here it is: [link]

I do have a Clocky (Paramount swag from a few years back - no idea what movie they were trying to promote with it), but we gave it to Dylan to play with instead of using it as an alarm. If it's still working in 15 years he can take it to college.

Oh, I ordered this alarm clock today: [link] (it's a kit)

The Ice Tube clock ($70 USD) gets its brilliant blue display thanks to an old-school Russian-issued VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) tube. It’s set inside of a spiffy clear acrylic shell, which lets you see its internal circuitry whenever you want. Each tube has 8 glowy blue digits, as well as a dot indicator for PM and an alarm on/off indicator.

While the Ice Cube kit includes everything you need to build a standard alarm clock with day/date functionality, both hardware and software are open source, so you can mod this to do something else if you want – say display text messages or run the time backwards.

Well eff. My muffins turned out Not Good. Dangit.