The Arcology Garden

Fuck Time Two is a presentation on terrible time keeping for huertanix 's 40th birthday party, Huerta Day.

What follows are the slides (executed in the video through dslide, presented here through The Arcology Project ):

Time Keeping Design Trends from 295BCE to ~2020CE

• the digital watch of the new millennium demanded a digital timekeeping system

• Each day divides cleanly in to 1000 units, each 86.4 second long. the .beat

• The .beat time is always anchored to UTC+1

  • This is great if you're in Tokyo, or Sydney where it syncs with your morning

  • Or the Central European Standard Tribe where it syncs with your the cultural victory

TokyoFlash is a watch company that designed watches we believed looked futuristic in 2010. They have an absolutely unhinged design blog that was active 2011-2015.

They make watches, too of course, like this one that looks like a 70s bedside alarm clock. Or this one that looks like a Neal Stephenson gadget.

What if you read time by appraising the Enterprise nacelles?

What if your analog watch hands exhibited visual interference?

TokyoFlash blog submitters even predicted the downfall of terrible time keeping and the fondleslab-ification of our society years before Apple would get around to enacting it.

Why does the thing on your wrist tell you what the exact minute or second is?

You want to know how much work time is left. You want to know when your next meeting is. You want to know when you should leave to pick up your kid from day care. You want to know when the sunset is. You want to know whether it's Friday afternoon because your manager just logged off. You want to know how long until your family vacation. You want to know the time because someone asked you for it walking down the street.

The default OLED/LCD digital face watch is an affront and it's all the average person has access to.

Tech companies claim to know more of us than ever yet build less and less personalized products each year. Why are they all so boring now?

if you own a watch it's probably an apple watch

.oO(if you have a strava account or own lycra it'll be a garmin, instead.)

these things are boring as hell; you likely have only put a self-selected strap and wallpaper on it, if that.

Chasing the Pebble Smart Watch

New developments like the SensorWatch still give the F-91W cool powers:

• Temporal hours

• I-Ching casting

There is also the Goodwatch for you Calculator Watch and/or radio nerds.

• A 30$ open source ARM LCD smart watch

• Open source firmware

• See also: Watchy an ESP32 open source e-paper smart watch

But our dear friend Prescott Ogden said it best in 2014: "you're wasting time, you're spending time, time is money... well, fuck time"

(click here for the version w/ the technical details and live demo jank retained)

• liberate users from the oppression of time discipline

• some time scales are more dense/less densely packed

• assistants and agents convert to/from subjective time

So everyone owns an Apple Watch and no one changes their alarm tone, let alone their alarm clock.

With apologies to Ian Betteridge...

we present new developments in the art of terrible time keeping

"Accurate to within 40 minutes per day."

We present the Roman Sundial on your wrist:

• https://git.zyphon.com/will/InfiniTime/src/branch/wb/roman

• https://github.com/Sudrien/watchy_romantime

Japanese mechanical clock with six equal daytime and six equal nighttime units.

• the length of hours change depending on the season.

• six numbered hours from nine to four

• time counted backward based on burning incense sticks, the lowest three counts are of course reserved for meditation chime

• mechnically satisfying, too.

• https://git.zyphon.com/will/InfiniTime/src/branch/wb/wadokei

• https://github.com/Sudrien/watchy_wadokei

Arcs, from outside to inside, are Minutes, 24 hours, sunset/sunrise, day of month, month of year.

"It's half past four."

• Built in to KDE's Plasma Desktop since the Before Times

  • (Plasma has a binary clock, as well!)

• rr/fuzzy-clock on https://code.rix.si/rrix/infinitime

• Multiple overlapping timelines

• Each is a different time scale

• From immediate needs to seasonal wishes to societal goals

• (ryan click here: shell:~/Code/InfiniSim/build/infinisim &)

https://arcology.garden/ftt

Contact: ryan@whatthefuck.computer and will@zyphon.com