Rise, Property Value, Rise, Upon Your Mystery Ship
I pass the sign for O & S Holding's "World Famous" Bridge Street every day on my way home from work. It's a little odd that it's world famous and hasn't even been built yet. But with this thing being built and the new high school, new middle school, and how everything near the new Target is going crazy (and Target is within 2 miles of my house, I can even pick up their walkie talkies on my Motorola FRS radios), the property value of my urban sprawl cookie-cutter house is going up up up.

Site: The World Famous Bridge Street

Clocks
When I wake up in the morning, my alarm clock is actually my Palm IIIxe. I use the program Diddle Pad (now unavailable) and Alarm Hack (now unavailable). I stumble out of bed and into the bathroom. I take off my watch, and while I'm in the shower, the only time keeping device is the white clock hanging above the shower. When I get out of the shower, I put my watch on and get dressed. I put my Palm and my Nokia 3390 into my right front pocket of my jeans. The Nokia also keeps track of the time.

I go into the kitchen to make protien drinks for Alison and me. The oven/stove has a clock on it. There is also a clock on the wall. After breakfast, I go through the garage, which has a clock on the wall, and get in my car, which has a clock in the radio. I pass a dentists office with the time and temp outside on the way to work.

When I get into work, I clock in (yes, I know, breaks federal labor laws). In my office, I have a clock on the wall, my computer keeps time, and my HP48 calculator has an internal clock. If I work in the lab, the pH meter has a clock, there is a clock on the wall in there, and I think the remote control for the AC keeps the time. My work van has a clock, but for that matter all the cars in the parking lot do in general.

After work, if I watch TV or play on the Playstation, the sattelite box has a clock, the PS2 keep time, as does the ReplayTV. The VCR, since it doesn't have access to a raw cable feed, is unable to set it's clock, so it doesn't display it. No flashing 12:00 here, buddy.

Oddly, the more advanced units in my entertainment system don't have external displays. The DVD player, which doesn't know what time it is, PS2, sat receiver, ReplayTV, and Gamecube all don't have visible clocks. But they all, with the exception of the DVD player, do keep time.

Oh, and the computer upstairs keeps time. As does the clock in that room. Or, it would if I'd put a new battery in it.
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 2:51 PM