So what do you do with your spare time? These geeks turn old oscilloscopes into clocks. http://www.webx.dk/oz2cpu/clock-scope/scope.htm You can even watch a video of the clock in action. http://www.webx.dk/oz2cpu/clock-scope/clock-run6.mov .
my time is never spare. sparce is more like it. the only time i have to cool my heals is when someone else is in the way and i have to wait for them to get out of it. ain't no such things as having too much time to myself. not ever even enough for me, even when its all of it. not for someone with imagination and the sense to see that creating and exploring is what gratifies them. mostly what i do is the pictures i take of the imaginary worlds i create inside the computer. not living alone, and living with who i do, i don't really have the place to do all the things with solid real world hardware that i did when i had, so this computer is a godsend that enables me to make up for it. at least when wifie is in the other room, asleep, or out somewhere else. i'm REAL glad there isn't anyone else i have to live with to stumble over. no, time has never been a problem, not too much of it. too little of it. too little of it with access to means of creating and exploring. when i can't get to the computer because someone else has parked themselves in the way, that's when i sleep or read or meditate in the other room. and then inbetween sometimes, also preferably when i'm alone, there's all the looking after the house to take care, which wouldn't get done if i didn't. (i did build a hardware interface from my old ohio scientific c1p to an analog instrument plotter once upon a time, but that was almost 30 years ago. built my own modular take appart drafting table even befor that, somewhere arround 40 years ago, and a lot of things with model trains, creating believable worlds for them, on and off most of my life when i've had the chance, which wasn't nearly as much of the time as i would have liked. oh lets see, i also built a bunch of paia synthasizer modules back before personal computers were available. and little l.e.d. readerboard displays with sequencing circuits and static ram chips. yah i've done a bunch of little odds and ends like that over the years. along with the mechanics of playing a number of musical instruments. never had a chance to get as deeply into music theory as i might have started out to. nor any further with geology then a couple of college semesters and a summer spent as helper on a core drill, but that last i actually did for a living, such as it was, that one summer, probably the best and happiest of my life.) =^^= .../\...
I shouldn't have as much spare time as I do. And when I have it, I spend far too much of it on this g-d box!!! Grrrrrrrr!!! I always feel so guilty for wasting my life away on the 'Net. My instructor tells me all the time that I read too much, because I'm always coming up with some stupid little trivial piece of information. Though it makes for interesting conversation!
