That’s the amount of time my phone gives me to snooze. Why nine? I’d like to be able to adjust it but I can’t. Some mornings I like to have a 5 minute snooze but instead I end up being slightly late cos nine is just awkward. A quick Google (585,000 results) has thrown up this explanaition:
By the time the snooze feature was added in the 1950’s, the innards of alarm clocks had long been standardized. This meant that the teeth on the snooze gear had to mesh with the existing gear configuration, leaving engineers with a single choice: They could set the snooze for either a little more than nine minutes, or a little more than 10 minutes. But because reports indicated that 10 minutes was too long, allowing people to fall back into a “deep” sleep, clock makers decided on the nine-minute gear, believing people would wake up easier and happier after a shorter snooze. We’d tend to disagree with that logic, but, then, we must be in the lazy minority. Although today’s digital clocks can be programmed to have a snooze of any length, most stick with nine minutes because that’s what consumers expect. (http://www.mentalfloss.com/trivia/questions/?m=200609)
It seems strange that they wouldn’t make a setting for it nowadays though. By the looks of things I won’t be the last one asking that question.
I’ve been waiting to write this post as I wanted to get familiar with the player before giving my opinion. I’ve had it about two weeks now and I absolutely love it. It’s hands down the best bit of kit I’ve ever bought. It’s quite a lengthy post so I’ve stuck it in an extended entry. Click through for more: Read the rest of this entry »
Watched Dave Gorman’s “America Unchained” documentary this evening. The premise was to go on a coast-to-coast road trip without giving money to “the man”. I’m generally a fan of Dave’s stuff so I was raging to have missed it last month when it was originally aired. I also had an added interest in the fact that I’m undertaking a similar trip (geography wise) in September. A full post is coming on that soon btw.
Anyway, back to the documentary and I have to say I really enjoyed it. I won’t spoil too much of the detail but I’m surprised that he was able to do such a trip. It’s opened my eyes to the amount of small ‘Mom & Pop’ businesses still littered throughout the US and I hope to find a few of them myself. You do have to love a small gas station that will open after a phone call from a local and fill a strangers car up. On a bank holiday. Fantastic.
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