|
| nathancahill wrote:
| Original source or second hand information?
| jareklupinski wrote:
| He had too much time on his hands.
| zadler wrote:
| Guess he couldn't find them second hand.
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| Nice of him to do this for hour enjoyment!
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| A man with one clock always knows what time it is. A man with two
| clocks is never sure.
|
| We have no data on a man with 106 clocks.
| Arrath wrote:
| If even a portion of them chime the hour: the man is insane.
| CamperBob2 wrote:
| A man with 106 clocks can be sqrt(106) times more confident in
| knowing what time it is.
| KRAKRISMOTT wrote:
| Why sqrt? The ensemble is 1-P(Wrong time probability for a
| single clock)^106
| thefifthsetpin wrote:
| Every clock is wrong; they're just wrong by different
| amounts.
| niccl wrote:
| There's a neat novel that has the Marie Antoinette Breguet as a
| core McGuffin. Written a few years before the timepieces were
| recovered: The Grand Complication, by Allen Kurzweil.
| PeterWhittaker wrote:
| He must be a Proust fan.
| joshcrowder wrote:
| It was just a matter of time until he got caught
| bookofjoe wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35632682
| zabzonk wrote:
| i had already clocked this.
| nerpderp82 wrote:
| The time for these clock puns to stop is now!
| labster wrote:
| Dude, don't be such a clock blocker.
| labster wrote:
| A clock thief knows no peace, he will always have to watch his
| six.
| onion2k wrote:
| I imagine he'll end up doing hard time.
| dgacmu wrote:
| Not in this case; his time was up.
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| kainosnoema wrote:
| Really enjoyed all the minute details in this piece, like
| watching a documentary.
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| Still, it was rather alarming.
| wantlotsofcurry wrote:
| He's truly living on borrowed time
| ryanmcdonough wrote:
| Surprised he found the time to steal them all.
| nathancahill wrote:
| Museum should have had a watch dog.
| fasteddie wrote:
| This actually was his second offense.
| nerpderp82 wrote:
| On the other hand, he almost got away with it.
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