clock — watching time, the only true currency

Twenty-four minutes on the run home.

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After much debate on Saturday afternoon, we agreed on seeing Le petit lieutenant that night. As the title suggests, this is a French film. Subtitles, even! Two attributes were even more French — or at least less Hollywood. First, one of the lead characters dies. Second, there are several scenes where no one is talking, [...]

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On Sunday afternoon, January 28, 2007, a bit after 2pm, there was a house fire on the 2000 block of McAllister Street, just off Masonic Avenue, in San Francisco, California, USA.
The fire trucks’ sirens drew our attention to the black smoke pouring into the sky. We watched the ladder trucks arrive and extend, and [...]

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Pushing the girl in the stroller, trying to keep up with the boy on the bike… thirty-three minutes in Golden Gate Park, with a long interruption at the playground.

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Cleaning out the inbox, we find…

A formula for procrastination is a headline that just catches the eye. Especially when you’re supposed to be doing something else! No mention of RSS in the entire story…doesn’t seem right. I suppose procrastination existed before the Internet.
Optimus Prime iPod Dock would be the boy’s first choice for [...]

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Ten minute warmup, then 5000m on the ergometer in 19:02. Pushing the last 1000m got me a bit ahead of the target I had set beforehand, and was in danger of missing without a good finish. Once every two weeks won’t cut it for erging, if I want to improve here. I’m not sure just [...]

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Another experiment with iStopMotion, this time with the kids, and we have two (very) short films to show for it on YouTube: Race car goes fast (stop-motion) and Batman gets in the Batmobile.
Each one is two seconds long. It was hard to keep their attention this long. Remember, 24 frames/second. What did help was turning [...]

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I’m using my blog as a testbed for something new cooked up by Aaron and Noah. If you visit my blog at http://www.pencoyd.com/clock/ (instead of just reading via the RSS feed), you’ll see a yellow button on the right-hand side of the page, under the heading “Are you using OpenDNS?”
The button has two states: one [...]

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24:00 on the run to work this morning.

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Sloooow run home in 27:30. (Blame the lights!) But in time for some Scrabble with the boy before bedtime.

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