The M&Co Wall Clock Askew is an analog wall clock designed by Tibor and Maira Kalman that challenges conventional ideas of time. The numbers on the clock face are arranged in a random order, rather than in the traditional sequence.
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.
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.
Replied in a sub, but there is a mechanical watch that essentially works this way. The hour hand skips to the appropriate hour. Note that it makes the same distance jumpโ5 clock hours each hour. Still, an amazing bit of ingenuity in watchmaking.
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.
@Amorpheus 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.
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.
@catsalad, and there's a fun thing. The displacement of the numbers has some logic:
1 and 2, 5 and 10 - multiple by two.
11 is opposite to 6 and is followed by 5, 12 is opposite to 9 and is preceded by 3; 11=6+5 and 12-3=9; the operation depends on the second operand position (if it goes before or after on the display).
I just realized if you have twelve different clocks, one with 11 at each position (or a clock with just 11 at each position) then it is always time for elevensies.
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in reply to Cat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ • • •This is like a classic M&Co (theprintarkive.co.uk/products/โฆ), who made fantastic clocks and watches, including a very important one for cat owners!
M&Co โAskewโ Wall Clock (Tibor & Maira Kalman)
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5 - cinque
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12 - dodici
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11 - undici
1 - uno
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in reply to Cat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ • • •Replied in a sub, but there is a mechanical watch that essentially works this way. The hour hand skips to the appropriate hour. Note that it makes the same distance jumpโ5 clock hours each hour. Still, an amazing bit of ingenuity in watchmaking.
franckmuller.com/crazy-hours
Crazy Hours - Franck Muller
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in reply to Amorpheus • • •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.
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in reply to Cat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ • • •@catsalad, and there's a fun thing. The displacement of the numbers has some logic:
1 and 2, 5 and 10 - multiple by two.
11 is opposite to 6 and is followed by 5, 12 is opposite to 9 and is preceded by 3; 11=6+5 and 12-3=9; the operation depends on the second operand position (if it goes before or after on the display).
The other pairs differ by one.
Simon
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