Damnit! Now you know what I’ll be doing at 2 a.m.
Set one clock to be one minute ahead of the other. Then simultaneously start the earlier one and start a stopwatch. When the stopwatch reads 1:00, start the other clock. Yes, it’s a bit of a hassle, but obviously one can’t have out-of-sync clocks in one’s house.
One of our neighbours has a motorcycle. I understand why bikers like to have a loud exhaust – it makes it more likely that car drivers will notice them – but he sits on the bike in his driveway with the engine running for several (5+) minutes at a time. And as if that’s not aggravating enough, he revs it up a couple times every minute or two. Makes me think of a little kid providing engine noises for his toy cars and trucks – “Vroom, vroom!”
Actually, no it doesn’t. The exhaust noise is projected behind the bike. You don’t really hear it until the motorcycle is past you. The guy is just being an asshole.
I’m a biker myself. And that kind of thing infuriates me enormously.
And 99% of those annoyingly loud motorcycles are Harleys. 
Most civilized motorcycles made in countries other than the US are much, much quieter.
My wife sets her own bedside clock about 15 minutes fast. Drives me crazy. It’s weird as we are both very punctual people. To the minute punctual, but she still does this for whatever reason. I guess a habit left over since she was a kid.
She uses her phone for the time of day, but her bedside clock is always running fast.
We don’t use that bedside clock, and heck, she is now retired so she can sleep until whenever, but she continues to do this.
This is one thing I’ve put my foot down on. I get to set all other clocks.
You can also just sync all your clocks to your phone, which is likely no more than 10-20 msec away from Naval Observatory time. For clocks that don’t let you set the second or go to 00 sec on Start, just plug them in/insert the battery at 00 seconds then set the minute. But it’s multiple clocks in view that’s important.
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
I’m driving along a suburban stroad at 15 mph in packed traffic, and some poor driver is up ahead waiting to pull in out of a parking lot. At this time of day there’s not much hope of an interval opening up, so I slow to a crawl to leave a space. They don’t move. I come to a complete stop. They don’t move. I flash my light. They don’t move. Finally they look up from their phone. They move (but they don’t wave).
He is right. Loud Pipes are not a safety feature.
This is a perfect example of my driving rule that if you try to be nice to another driver, they’ll just wind up pissing you off.
South Park has covered this. (Language warning, natch)
Ha! Perfect logic.
Here’s one that isn’t that infuriating, rather a wry observation: recipes(“so quick and easy!”) that give you the estimated preparation and cooking times, but never mention the clearing-up.
Oooooo. Recipes that are “Three easy steps!” And each step has about four separate processes in it.
I’m looking at you Cooking Lite magazine.
I always liked Peter Schickele’s Three-Step Crab Dinner Recipe:
- Step out the door
- Step in a cab
- Step in a restaurant and order the crab
For some reason I watched a reaction video. It was of a young music producer who had never heard of Steely Dan. I don’t know what I was expecting, but his constant interruptions and inane comments really started giving me a slow burn. I was unable to finish the album (Aja) with him. It was even worse when, against my better judgement, I watched a reaction video of a flautist watching Jethro Tull.
I use my iPhone to keep track of my steps. I walk each of my three dogs, separately each morning, a little over 1 mile apiece. I did a Google Maps route, and it is 0.6 miles one way. So at the end of my morning walk, I should have approximately 3.6 miles. I have one pair of pants that has a cargo pocket on the side of my leg (above my knee). If I wear those pants with my phone in the cargo pocket, the mileage is just about right on. If I’m wearing different pants and have to put my phone in the front pocket, the phone will show 2.9 miles, even though I know I walked the full route 3 times. If it doesn’t show 3+ miles, I get bummed. There have been times I’ve done extra with the last dog just to make up the difference, even though I know I already walked the 3 miles. I don’t get why such a big discrepancy. The phone is still being moved with every step I take, even if it’s in the front pocket.