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Self-haters gonna self-hate I guess.

Did it really take 2 people to do this?

pinothyj wrote:Does anyone know why it is always nine minutes?

It dates back to the days of mechanical alarm clocks. When the snooze feature was first introduced, it was mechanically regulated, and the cam or dial that regulated the snooze interval was not terribly precise in its manufacture.

Thus, while the designers were aiming for a ten-minute snooze interval, they often missed the mark in the manufacturing of the snooze intervalometer.

Now fast forward to the transition to digital alarm clock manufacture: at that point, people were used to a 9-ish minute snooze interval and, using the older mechanical models as a guide, the 9 minute snooze was established as the standard.

Is it just me, or does that alarm clock look a lot like Div from Penny Arcade?

Nice collab tee! Congrats.

(I hadn't checked out a lot of RandyOtter's recent work until now. Banana's Revenge is all kinds of awesome.)

LuNa7ic wrote:Change the dial to say 10:00am and I'll buy :P

The dial does say 5 am, tilt your head so it aligns with the arm.

But... Why would a *clock* need a *watch*?

good concept. bad color.

Surprisingly, I haven't heard of any analog/digital clock riots lately...

Why is the clock wearing a watch?

If I were to wake up at 0500 I wouldn't make it to work onetime

Assassin15 wrote:The best part is the fact that he's wearing an analog... too bad the times shown on the alarm clock and watch don't match up.

You sure? Tilt your head sideways to the left and you will see from his perspective they match.

ratbastid wrote:But... Why would a *clock* need a *watch*?

Because it can't see its own time? It's like saying why do humans need mirrors.

CrobeOwnz wrote:If I were to wake up at 0500 I wouldn't make it to work onetime

maybe twotimes then?

Ugh, lately I've been at work by the time 5am comes around.

768

terminatorgir wrote:thanks to my extreme alarm clock app for android, i can stop myself from hitting snooze by forcing me to solve math problems. by the time i get through them, im already too awake to go back under. its saved me from many a late day

MathUhhhSaurus wrote:woah....what's the app name?

Thinkgeek has a stand-alone tabletop version of that. (Same disclaimer as last time: I'm not affiliated with thinkgeek in any way, I just like and have a weirdly good memory for cool stuff.)

Regarding the Android app: does it have different difficulty settings for the equations? I'm an arts and humanities nerd, so my trig and calc are a little rusty.

xpenguin wrote:Also, this makes me want to get the

Tocky alarm clock even more. An alarm clock that makes you chase after it.

Perhaps I should get that for my mom - she's completely oblivious to alarm clocks.

I have that, and my review would be mixed. The sound it makes is really weird (more of a concern if you have roommates), it doesn't travel well on heavy carpet, and trying to dig it out from under your bed is REALLY frustrating when it won't stop moving around. I don't use it much anymore because waking up in the morning tends to be frustrating enough for me already.