Re: Food Prices

On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 11:24:01 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 5/31/2025 10:26 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sat, 31 May 2025 20:49:21 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

FWIW, I missed the keyboard question and the $10 bill questions.

 
Most people will recall what's on 1 or 2
addition bills, but have forgotten the others.  (No, it's not short
term memory failure).
 
However, if I do the same party trick with a group of 8 to 11 year
olds, they using get both sides of the bills correct on the first try,
except for the $50 and $100 bills.
 
Ok, want to speculate on why this happens?

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I've got no clue.
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In the distant past, I use an analog watch:
<https://www.wikihow.com/Use-an-Analog-Watch-as-a-Compass>
The tricky part is dealing with daylight savings time.

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I do know that trick, but never use it these days. One of my more
satisfying purchases last year was a tiny flat compass that clips
perfectly onto the rear center of my handlebar bag's lid.
https://www.rei.com/product/857612/suunto-clipper-lb-nh-compass
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I've proven to myself many times that I have no talent for guessing
which way is north. My notoriously cloudy riding area doesn't help.
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But about analog watches: I've always preferred them to digital watches.
I can process the information more quickly. I still treasure the
chronograph (mechanical of course!) my father gave me when I finished my
engineering degree (mechanical of course!). I have had to open it up a
couple times to tune up the chronograph clutch, and I now wear it only
for special occasions, but still wind it every day.

I opted for digital watches when my job required that I think in 24
hour time with minute to minute acccuracy, which is much harder and
slower to do with an analong timepiece. I have several watches and all
but my old Scuba Dive watch are on digital 24 hour time, because once
you use 24 hour time, you see how ridiculous 12 hour timekeeping is in
today's world. It is, however, hard to convince people who've used the
12 hour time all their lives.

I understand why 12 hour time first came into being. It was, of
course, long before digital clocks and watches. An analog 24 hour
timepiece is harder and slower to read accurately than a 12 hour one.

The later system operations control rooms I worked in had both analog
and a digital 24 hour clocks, but nobody paid any attention to the
analog clocks.

--
C'est bon
Soloman