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I’d read many years ago that they scale or align aircraft instrument panel dials so that the majority of “normal” readings are either horizontal or vertical. This allows the pilot to quickly eye-scan the whole panel for trouble without actually “reading” each gauge.

This (scanning without reading) is why digital-number displays are generally not used for critical instruments in planes or cars: you have to actually “read” the number on a digital readout. A gauge needle that’s out of place is instantly noticeable.

It’s much easier to calculate times with an analog watch, too. For half an hour, just mentally flip the minute hand across the dial. With a digital clock, you have to do math.

Brrrr.

Math.

*whimper* But I like Christian rock. (Now Christian rap and Christian heavy metal – those are other issues all together.)

Interesting. I did not know about the further end of the speedometer.

Yep. Good point. The pattern-detecting and symmetry/flipping/mirroring ability in the brain is – I believe – way older and more hard-wired than higher math abilities.

I haven’t investigated, but I’d bet that analog-hand watches (even if digitally generated) sell better than digital watches.

Trivia question: (I am 99% sure you’ll know this) In a watch advertisement, what time is the watch almost always set to? Two possible answers.

I dunno. All the cars I’ve owned or stolen have gone up to about 75% of the gauge. I got one of the little high-revving hatchbacks that I owned up to around 110/130 mi h^-1 on the way to the Lake District one time going down a hill with the wind behind me. That’s 84.6% of the gauge.
Oh, and I like cold pizza. Puts hairs on your chest.
Ooh, what does the D/R gauge do?
How’s Badger House? Still standing, I presume. Yeah, they built them to last back in those days.
We didn’t really get anything more than a strong gust up here. Maybe it’s in the post, so to speak.

Discharge – Recharge? Generator/alternator status?

Oh, I see. So if it swings leftwise, you’ve got discharge problems. Man, it never ends does it?

I liked your exponential notation, Gibby! I assume that when you were going 110-130, you were fleeing the cops or Interpol?

I’m convinced that many of Weasel’s lurkers are Nobel Laureates – secretly keeping their noggins freshly stuffed with important knowledge. It’s the only explanation.

No, just trying to get there faster.

Huh. Well. I did not know, McGoo…but so far, all the ones I’ve seen online look to be set at 10:08. Why is that?

And the D/R gauge is “Democrat/Republican.”

10:10 or 1:50?

Yep. They’ll almost always be set to 10:08 or the mirror about the vertical axis – about 8 minutes til 2.

The reason is that when casually looked at, the watch has a SMILE on its face rather than a frown, or whatever. It’s an ad-psychology-thing, so I’ve been told.

The Anonymous has it!

Well, I’ll be damned. I did not know that.

Thanks, McGoo. I feel smarter knowing that. Good “show-off” trivia,

Exactly, Musli. It’s great to know on a Sunday when the newspaper advertisements come out. You can bet someone that you know what time the jewelry-store ads will have on the watches. Matter of fact – I did this to my host last trip to Austin.

Now I can go nap.

Bill Kristol is on crack:

If any Republican can defend conservative principles and policies, at once acknowledging Bush’s failures while pivoting to present his own biography and agenda to the voters, McCain can.

…and…

Perhaps the most obvious way McCain could upend the normal dynamics of this year’s election would be a bold vice presidential choice. He could pick a hawkish and principled Democrat like Joe Lieberman.

What? Nonsense. Billy Crystal is a fine comedic actor. Have you not seen City Slickers? And to a lesser extent – City Slickers II: the Legend of Curly’s Gold?

Wow. I am Anonymous. Got a new PC at work and didn’t even look to see if my name was filled in when I posted that.

And then, I actually thought I’d posted a response about an hour ago and it’s not even there!

Damn Twilight Zone.

So if it swings leftwise, you’ve got discharge problems.

You bet. Along with itching and burning……
Bath house morality will do that to them.

BWAHAHAHAHA…and prostituting….Spitzer, you hypocritical lefty shitbag!

Oooh! That was good, PnB!

I still wanna know what act his whore considered “unsafe”.

I’m just reading up on Spitzer now. These people are priceless, aren’t they? Pure ethics-free sociopaths.

Good grief! When The Weasel mentioned ‘a corrupt NY attorney’ she hadn’t used his name. Now I see who it is, I’m even more impressed – his infamy as a shakedown artist in the true tradition of the great Alphonse Capone and Bugsy Siegel hadn’t been lost on us.

What a piece of walking corruption.

I still wanna know what act his whore considered “unsafe”.

These day? Probably lighting up a cigarette afterwards – that second hand smoke causes lung-cancer dontchaknow.

I wanna know what sort of services cost $30,000 a weekend. My imagination isn’t that good.

I can’t imagine what could cost 3,000/weekend. Difference with me is that I suppose I won’t want to know.

I have very little respect for such scumbags. D or R, they should be out. They’re elected to represent and administrate on behalf of the people, not to lord their privates around. (From what I’ve noticed, Republicans are very harsh on such corrupt pols whether the politician is R or D. Equal opportunty prudes we are.)

If you ask me, $30,000 wouldn’t even cover having to spend half an hour alone in a room with a piece of hypocritical filth like Spitzer.

My watch is frowning at me right now.

Dave, we warned you about the brown acid.

So has the shit-for-brains resigned yet?

You know how it is these days, McGoo – they are all students of the First World War admiral, Jackie Fisher, whose motto was ‘Never explain, never apologise’.

I can’t recall the last time a British politician resigned.

Room temperature is for…bananas, I guess.

Actually, I looooove cold bananas!

Problem is, put ’em in the fridge and they turn black. The only place you can get a cold banana is on an airliner. And you have to take off your shoes and perform other tricks to get that cold banana.

Evolution, my ass.

Holy sheep shit, Badger! That was a storm!

Dammit. How ’bout this?

-=snip=-

I give up. Weaz – would you delete those?

Shit brains has not resigned yet. I am hearing rustlings of other dem pols saying he doesn’t need to resign over something ‘private’ that is between him and his wife.

Maybe the next prostitute ring he gets to romp with will be Chinese or Russian. I hear those kind like to talk politics while they service you. What’s a little sharing between business partners, eh?

…especially when their pimps have them wired or something.

Shame about the links, McGoo. I watched the TV news tonight and it was (as these things always are) hideously sad for the poor bastiches who’ve been flooded out.

But, in the great scheme of things? I’ve farted worse. This was not a very big deal at all.

Funnily enough, the Ancient and Mad Maternal Badger opined that she reckons the news has got hysterical these days and that she’s sick of them hyping what people used to shrug about and say: ‘It’s winter. What do you expect?’.

As usual, the old mustelid is right.

We’re pussies. When she was a wee badger the skies rained bombs and rockets. WTF are we fussed about?

The link was just a photo of a huge wave by a lighthouse. But it was dramatic. Probably on the southwestern(?) region of your realm.

Yeah – a mini-hurricane does not compare to WWII.

I saw that photo, McGoo. I almost linked to another from the Mail, but I suspect the reason your link didn’t work is they fiddle with the filenames. So I din’t.

Interesting. It seemed to work from “here” but wouldn’t after being posted “there” so something was fiddled.

Good morning.

So … the whore-banger hasn’t resigned yet? He’s actually going to try to – ahem – ride it out, I guess.

We shall see. If he doesn’t resign, he’s a busted flush. He was the great crusading reformer; how’s he going to put on a display of righteous wrath now?