[travel] Broken cuckoo clock

[mattbell]

The hotel where I stayed in Damanhur appeared to have a broken cuckoo clock.  It cuckooed twice around 8:15 (I assumed it would go off once for the first quarter-hour) and then twice again around 8:25.  When it went off three more times a couple of minutes later, I realized that what I was hearing was an actual cuckoo.  I can say that the cuckoo does a more or less perfect job of imitating a cuckoo clock.  :-)  But seriously, the fact that old-school mechanical clock designers managed to capture the cuckoo sound perfectly with a mechanical contraption is impressive. 

Many things in the world are known to most people only by their derivative works.  These derivative works load us up with all kinds of preconceptions that can lead to interesting results when we encounter the original

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[floppylala.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the first time I saw snow. I thought it was amazing that all the people had climbed their houses and patted down the snow on the edges of their roofs to round the edges off just like they had it at Disneyland.