I would not have thought it possible, but I love my alarm clock. Recently my wife and I acquired a Phillips Wake Up Light. As the days were getting shorter in October, we lamented the fact that we now had to try to drag ourselves out of bed in the dark every morning. Thus, fighting our natural reaction that we should still be sleeping because the sun is not up yet.
The winter months are a different story. Nature was working against us. There was the conflicting need to be up long before the sun rises but the darkness told our bodies we should be asleep. At times, getting up required great effort. Regardless of how many times the snooze button was pressed (or pounded!), getting vertical was just plain tough.
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My son is 3.5 and was just diagnosed with autism. He developed a love for clocks a few months ago. He has a wristwatch and a wall clock that he carries around with him the way other kids carry teddy bears or security blankets. He even sleeps with his wall clock. I found your post after Googling for autistic kids who love clocks. I enjoyed your post, and I think there will be some trips to see famous clocks in our future.
My son has the same love for clocks and fans ! He just turned 3. Is this something to worry about? He has a diagnosis of ASD. He is still learning thing around him.. but when left to himself he would prefer CLOCKS or FANS. Does this get better over time? Is he still in love with Clocks?? Any recommendations for us?
The last time I went through this transition, it was a concert malfunction. I showed up to the theater to see a concert, and the gates were locked. A chulito wrapper rolled by in the wind, like a tumbleweed. Nobody was around, except a stray cat.
I went through the temporal switch several times before I knew about these two time orientations. Now that I know about clock-time and event-time, much of the behavior that I found puzzling now makes sense.
Consider this study from Stanford. They found that the busier knowledge workers were, the less creative they were. The more they struggled to fit work into the time available, the more they let creativity fall by the wayside.
Remember some of the ways that creative work is not like moving chunks of iron or stacking bricks. Ideas can be worthless, or they can be priceless. Ideas can also arrive in an instant. And when they do arrive, the moment they arrive is often far removed from the work that produced the idea.
But I prefer to think of time as descriptive, not prescriptive. The minutes and hours on the clock are not little boxes that you need to stuff work into. The minutes and hours on the clock are instead rough measurements for how to allocate your energy.
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Next was painting time. I asked Clara what color she wanted (fully expecting her to say pink) and she said blue! Go figure. Thankfully, I had an old test pot of Embellished Blue by Behr leftover from this project, so I applied two coats for some nice even coverage.
Then I free-handed some cute other details, like a window frame around the round piece of wood I had glued on under the roof, and a few other windows with stems coming up from some window boxes (my inspiration cuckoo clock gave me courage since her sketchy/imperfect drawings were so charming to me). I also added stems along the bottom behind the picket fence and in both windows so I could use a red sharpie to add some flowers in those spots.
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I imagine you could print a clock face template from the internet to help you out with that. Print out a smaller template and then write your own numbers just outside of your template lining up with each number!
One suggestion, my dad made lots of cool stuff for me when I was a kid and one thing he always did was sign it on the back. I love looking back and seeing how he wrote that it was for me, from him, and the year.
First, I hooked up my Raspberry Pi to the RGB Matrix HAT + RTC Hat that I got from Adafruit Industries. This was a super convenient board, because it added the two features I needed: the ability to drive an RGB display from a Pi, and a realtime clock (RTC).
I added separate pieces to the front of the box (you can see them if you look at the far side in the photo below) with a slight lip so that all the components could slide in from the back and be pressed against the front to keep everything in place.
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Wow, very fashion thing, I like it! What is the price of this beauty clock? I think it will be the best gift for my boyfriend! Can you write something special for me, I think it will be more exclusively and more interesting! Wait for your answer! Maybe you know where I can buy it)
I even had time to transform my classroom clock. This was inspired by a pin uploaded by Bethany Pearson. When we get back from Christmas Break, my Algebra 1 students will be starting to study exponents and radicals. I thought this would be a fun way to preview the topic of radicals. It even sparked a great conversation in Saturday School. One student said that it was easy to figure out what number it was because you just divided by two. Some other students quickly jumped in the conversation to correct him.
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Love is the one thing that transcends time and space. Love can make time stand still. Love can also outlast time, but can love thrive in a glitch in time? Is true love truly eternal? Or is it just like a snowflake; beautiful yet ephemeral?
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Chessnut has been working hard on a new app for the Chessnut Air, Air+, and PRO and have put it out as an early release for the community to give a go. At the moment, it's only available on Android but once it's complete, it should be on both Android and iOS.
A very good thing that Chessnut has done is that they've made this new app SEPARATE to their existing one, and indeed, I have both the original and new apps installed with no problems. So, there is no need to choose one or the other to install!
One of the features in the new app that I really like is the "Clock Mode"; it is a simple but well designed automatic chess clock designed for use with the Chessnut Air/Air+/PRO to record over-the-board games! It is very easy to set up the clock for the time controls you want, and the clock automatically advances with each move.
The new app also knows the correct board orientation depending now how the White and Black pieces are physically set up on the board. This is especially important in OTB games as having to rotate the board when swapping colours is counterintuitive.
The app will, of course, record the OTB game and at completion, an option is given to either discard or save the game. This saves the game onto Chessnut's server, and the PGN can be accessed fairly simply once logged into your account on Chessnut's website.
I restarted playing chess recently after my interest was rekindled by the release of "The Queen's Gambit" on Netflix. I mostly play 1 or 2 games a day, and am trying to improve (slowly!). I document some of my games and learning experiences on my blog and YouTube channel from the perspective of a beginner-intermediate player!
The story goes that the sun saw her one night as he was leaving the sky. He was so taken by her silver face, so calm and beautiful, that he felt himself changed at just the sight of her. In a thoughtless trance, he picked up a few stones and threw them towards her in order to get her attention.
But the sun was too strong, and the stones skipped over the black river of the sky and crashed into her with such a force that she fell back. After the stones settled, they began to spread large bruises across her face. The longer the stones stayed, the deeper the bruises got.
The moon cried, and the oceans swelled under her pain. Her face was no longer the smooth silver jewel it had once been. She looked across the sky and saw the deep orange sun with a stone still in his hand. She never asked him why he did it, and he could never get close enough to tell her that it was because he loved her.
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