Subj : Re: Shopping And Time
To   : Barry Martin
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Jul 11 2020 02:22:00

Barry,

 BM> I generally have a list also, mainly because I don't want to forgot
 BM> something I specificallty went to the store to buy and got
 BM> side-tracked! IMO nothing wrong with browsing -- may find a bargin!
 BM> I've picked up some rather inexpensive food that way: $2 pizzas
 BM> normally closer to $10 just because the line is being discontinued,
 BM> etc.

  This last time, I had just a few select items...bread, lunch meat,
diet green tea, and cookies.

 BM> I'l agree some seem to be: why is the person taking a picture of
 BM> someone sitting in a chair when the chair suddenly collapses when the
 BM> cat jumps into the person's lap?  Not that things don't randomly occur
 BM> and people don't randomly film.

  It's to give folks their claim to fame, or a chance for a lawsuit.
The hot coffee scalding the woman's lap comes to mind. :P

 BM> For a hand-held stopwatch I could understand tenths of a second;
 BM> hundreths no: raction time of the person pushign the button, slight
 BM> delay due to the fleshyness of the thumb (push, squish of the flesh,
 BM> then the triggering of the stopwatch mechanism).  Stopwatch being
 BM> triggered electronically is different.

  This is true...I wonder if they are measured any further. With TV and
videos, they use "time base correction", with 28 frames per second.

Daryl

.... My VCR blinks 1:00 with Daylight Savings Time.
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