10/01: THREADBARE THOREAU
THREADBARE THOREAU
Walking in the woods around Walden Pond
I am approached by
a hiker, a loner, who
by his unkempt clothes
and scraggly beard
looks more like a staler
than a walker.
I greet
this old crank
with a halting,
and hesitant “Hey.”
He offers me
a weathered hand
some blackberries,
and this philosophical morsel:
“I came to the woods…
because I wanted to suck out
all the marrow of life.”
“Philosophy my ass,”
I thought,
as I bolt out of the woods,
grab my car phone
and dial 9-1-1.
Walking in the woods around Walden Pond
I am approached by
a hiker, a loner, who
by his unkempt clothes
and scraggly beard
looks more like a staler
than a walker.
I greet
this old crank
with a halting,
and hesitant “Hey.”
He offers me
a weathered hand
some blackberries,
and this philosophical morsel:
“I came to the woods…
because I wanted to suck out
all the marrow of life.”
“Philosophy my ass,”
I thought,
as I bolt out of the woods,
grab my car phone
and dial 9-1-1.
Celebrate the 5,000th Anniversary of the Construction of Stonehenge, with the New 5th Millennial Edition of the Stonehenge Watch™ -Tell the time Druid Style!
The Stonehenge Watch™ is specially crafted to keep the integrity of the original construction of Stonehenge, and thus, when opening the watchcase, can use the built-to-scale model of Stonehenge as a shadow clock to tell time, mark the four seasons and note the passage of years. The Stonehenge Watch™ is modeled after an old-fashioned railroad pocket watch and has been handsomely constructed to also include an analog quartz watch on one side (for those who insist on modern methods of time-telling) and a relief of Stonehenge on the other
After selling out the inaugural run of the 5th Millennial Edition of the Stonehenge Watch™ - “A great leap backward in time telling!” The makers of The Stonehenge Watch™ are pleased to announce that it is back in stock and ready to ship. This edition commemorates the 5th Millennia of the construction of Stonehenge.
The Stonehenge Watch™ has garnered much international attention and has been featured in Playboy Magazine, at The International Sky Art Conference at MIT, on BBC-TV, in Astronomy Magazine, in Stuff/UK’s 100 Best Gadgets of All-Time issue; featured in Inc. Magazine, is represented in the classic college textbook, Astronomy: From Earth to the Universe (Saunders), and has even been for sale at the Stonehenge site itself.
This 5th millennial edition of the watch is specially crafted to keep the integrity of the original construction of Stonehenge, and thus, when opening the watchcase, can use the built-to-scale model of Stonehenge as a shadow clock to tell time, mark the four seasons and note the passage of the years. Every astronomical function that was intended by the original builders of Stonehenge can be accomplished with the watch.
By owning The Stonehenge Watch™, you will quickly learn that Stonehenge is, at once, the oldest and newest way to tell time. Begin your "Great Leap Backward in Time" by pressing the watch stem button atop the rugged alloy watchcase and witness the mystery of Stonehenge revealed. Inside you will see the exact scale replica of the major components of the 5,000 year-old megalithic monument we know as Stonehenge. Orient yourself with the watch's accompanying high viscosity compass to tell local apparent time just as the builders of Stonehenge did thousands of years ago!
The late esteemed astronomer, R.J.C Atkinson, former Chairman of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, renowned as The Authority on Stonehenge archaeology, has called The Stonehenge Watch™ a “Handsome and ingenious time-piece.” Catherine Salmons, in The Boston Phoenix has said, “I’m amazed by the cleverness of The Stonehenge Watch, the outrageousness of its humor; it’s a three-dimensional Zen conundrum, the ultimate neo-dada gadget.” Ivan Peterson, of Science News Online wrote, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, when comparing The Stonehenge Watch™ to a modern day super accurate atomic clock, “The Stonehenge Watch™ tackles the passage of time in a considerably more contemplative manner.” Also available with The 5th Millennial edition of The Stonehenge Watch™ is a limited edition signed copy of the outrageously funny, Stonehenge Unraveled, by Peter Payack (Inventor of the watch) which again, R.J.C Atkinson called “a satisfying and scholarly guide to the unique time-piece.”
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QUOTES:
ENGADGET.COM: “Apparently the conveniences of modern technology have made us all very lazy. It's just too easy to tell time these days, which is why Sharpe Products is going super-old-school and selling the Stonehenge Watch… this pocketwatch manages the perfect blend of style and street cred for the Druid-on-the-go. It's a throwback to the days before atomic clocks and internet time servers, when estimating the time to within an hour was considered deadly accurate.”
YAHOO! NEWS UK:
Gadget of the Day: Stonehenge Watch Is that a megalithic monument in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? Oh I see it really is Accurate to the ….
GADGETMANIA:
Klar, eine Stonehenge-Uhr. (Was halt man so braucht...) Für den Preis kann man dann allerdings fast schon hinfahren.
CURIOCITYONLINE:
“If it was good enough for the Druids, isn't it good enough for you?”
ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE:
The great American poet Henry David Thoreau admonished his readers to “simplfy, simplify, simplify.” If you feel as if you should heed this call, and you have no desire to wind watches or change batteries a traditional solution awaits…. The Stonehenge Watch.
MOBILECOWBOYS.NL
Als een beetje hippe druide is het ondoenlijk om elke dag maar richting Stonehenge te gaan om te kijken hoe laat het is. Daarom is er nu dit horloge, welke een replica is van Stonehenge.
STUFF/UK
Yes, impress all your friends (in your druid club) by confidently predicting the spring and vernal equinox. Never again be caught out as summer turns to autumn (surely a must for fashion conscious season watchers). Remarkably, the pocketable monument does actually work. Line it up with the compass and you can tell the time just as our ancestors did all those millennia ago. And if you can't be bothered with all that, flip it over and you'll find a proper analogue watch with 'mystical' hour and minute hands. Hey, that's cheating!
THEMUSICGOD1
A stonehenge watch: Probably the coolest watch I've seen in my entire life.
THINKGEEK.COM
A classic timekeeping gadget: Stonehenge is certainly surrounded by mystery concerning why it was built and by whom. Druids, aliens, Merlin, the devil - heck, we don't know - probably built by some ancient ancestors of modern geeks. You can now harness the power of the sun and the stones by using the Stonehenge Watch.
A Pocket Watches For Druids
So all this whizbang you beaut technology stuff, atomic clocks GPS based timesync modules, internet time servers and the like, is well, leaving us with feelings of nostalgia for times past when for example telling the time was based on a quick look at the sky, bung a stick in the ground and bugger me it’s Eleven o’clock… the perfect time for a little smackerel of something.
It’s just too easy to tell time these days, which is why Sharpe Products is ignoring the Royal Society and all that 18th century mechanical horological nonsense and going back to the roots (so to speak) and flogging the Stonehenge Watch. Although not the first portable sundial we’ve seen, see the aforementioned stick in the ground. “This pocketwatch manages the perfect blend of style and street cred for the Druid-on-the-go”.
The Stonehenge has an exact, miniature replica of the henge die-cast on one side, and a compass on the other to help you get your bearings (any debates about Magnetic North, Leylines, Pyramids and Cropcircles can wait) . Sharpe obviously realizes the frustration you may encounter using this archaic method and should the disquieting feelings about modern technology wander off down the pub for a quick one, they thoughtfully included an analog mechanical horological device (a clock with hands) on the outside of the case. Just in case (sorry).
FOR ORDERS, DETAILED INFO, PHOTOS, HISTORY: http://www.Stonehengewatch.com/ or call Steve Sharpe (Designer, manufactuer) at Sharpe Products (973) 335-8535 or toll free 1-888-Watch-55.
CONTACT INFO: Peter Payack, inventor of The Stonehenge Watch™, at (617) 492-2913; 617-512-9196 (cell) or e-mail Payack@aol.com
The Stonehenge Watch™ is specially crafted to keep the integrity of the original construction of Stonehenge, and thus, when opening the watchcase, can use the built-to-scale model of Stonehenge as a shadow clock to tell time, mark the four seasons and note the passage of years. The Stonehenge Watch™ is modeled after an old-fashioned railroad pocket watch and has been handsomely constructed to also include an analog quartz watch on one side (for those who insist on modern methods of time-telling) and a relief of Stonehenge on the other
After selling out the inaugural run of the 5th Millennial Edition of the Stonehenge Watch™ - “A great leap backward in time telling!” The makers of The Stonehenge Watch™ are pleased to announce that it is back in stock and ready to ship. This edition commemorates the 5th Millennia of the construction of Stonehenge.
The Stonehenge Watch™ has garnered much international attention and has been featured in Playboy Magazine, at The International Sky Art Conference at MIT, on BBC-TV, in Astronomy Magazine, in Stuff/UK’s 100 Best Gadgets of All-Time issue; featured in Inc. Magazine, is represented in the classic college textbook, Astronomy: From Earth to the Universe (Saunders), and has even been for sale at the Stonehenge site itself.
This 5th millennial edition of the watch is specially crafted to keep the integrity of the original construction of Stonehenge, and thus, when opening the watchcase, can use the built-to-scale model of Stonehenge as a shadow clock to tell time, mark the four seasons and note the passage of the years. Every astronomical function that was intended by the original builders of Stonehenge can be accomplished with the watch.
By owning The Stonehenge Watch™, you will quickly learn that Stonehenge is, at once, the oldest and newest way to tell time. Begin your "Great Leap Backward in Time" by pressing the watch stem button atop the rugged alloy watchcase and witness the mystery of Stonehenge revealed. Inside you will see the exact scale replica of the major components of the 5,000 year-old megalithic monument we know as Stonehenge. Orient yourself with the watch's accompanying high viscosity compass to tell local apparent time just as the builders of Stonehenge did thousands of years ago!
The late esteemed astronomer, R.J.C Atkinson, former Chairman of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, renowned as The Authority on Stonehenge archaeology, has called The Stonehenge Watch™ a “Handsome and ingenious time-piece.” Catherine Salmons, in The Boston Phoenix has said, “I’m amazed by the cleverness of The Stonehenge Watch, the outrageousness of its humor; it’s a three-dimensional Zen conundrum, the ultimate neo-dada gadget.” Ivan Peterson, of Science News Online wrote, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, when comparing The Stonehenge Watch™ to a modern day super accurate atomic clock, “The Stonehenge Watch™ tackles the passage of time in a considerably more contemplative manner.” Also available with The 5th Millennial edition of The Stonehenge Watch™ is a limited edition signed copy of the outrageously funny, Stonehenge Unraveled, by Peter Payack (Inventor of the watch) which again, R.J.C Atkinson called “a satisfying and scholarly guide to the unique time-piece.”
.
QUOTES:
ENGADGET.COM: “Apparently the conveniences of modern technology have made us all very lazy. It's just too easy to tell time these days, which is why Sharpe Products is going super-old-school and selling the Stonehenge Watch… this pocketwatch manages the perfect blend of style and street cred for the Druid-on-the-go. It's a throwback to the days before atomic clocks and internet time servers, when estimating the time to within an hour was considered deadly accurate.”
YAHOO! NEWS UK:
Gadget of the Day: Stonehenge Watch Is that a megalithic monument in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? Oh I see it really is Accurate to the ….
GADGETMANIA:
Klar, eine Stonehenge-Uhr. (Was halt man so braucht...) Für den Preis kann man dann allerdings fast schon hinfahren.
CURIOCITYONLINE:
“If it was good enough for the Druids, isn't it good enough for you?”
ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE:
The great American poet Henry David Thoreau admonished his readers to “simplfy, simplify, simplify.” If you feel as if you should heed this call, and you have no desire to wind watches or change batteries a traditional solution awaits…. The Stonehenge Watch.
MOBILECOWBOYS.NL
Als een beetje hippe druide is het ondoenlijk om elke dag maar richting Stonehenge te gaan om te kijken hoe laat het is. Daarom is er nu dit horloge, welke een replica is van Stonehenge.
STUFF/UK
Yes, impress all your friends (in your druid club) by confidently predicting the spring and vernal equinox. Never again be caught out as summer turns to autumn (surely a must for fashion conscious season watchers). Remarkably, the pocketable monument does actually work. Line it up with the compass and you can tell the time just as our ancestors did all those millennia ago. And if you can't be bothered with all that, flip it over and you'll find a proper analogue watch with 'mystical' hour and minute hands. Hey, that's cheating!
THEMUSICGOD1
A stonehenge watch: Probably the coolest watch I've seen in my entire life.
THINKGEEK.COM
A classic timekeeping gadget: Stonehenge is certainly surrounded by mystery concerning why it was built and by whom. Druids, aliens, Merlin, the devil - heck, we don't know - probably built by some ancient ancestors of modern geeks. You can now harness the power of the sun and the stones by using the Stonehenge Watch.
A Pocket Watches For Druids
So all this whizbang you beaut technology stuff, atomic clocks GPS based timesync modules, internet time servers and the like, is well, leaving us with feelings of nostalgia for times past when for example telling the time was based on a quick look at the sky, bung a stick in the ground and bugger me it’s Eleven o’clock… the perfect time for a little smackerel of something.
It’s just too easy to tell time these days, which is why Sharpe Products is ignoring the Royal Society and all that 18th century mechanical horological nonsense and going back to the roots (so to speak) and flogging the Stonehenge Watch. Although not the first portable sundial we’ve seen, see the aforementioned stick in the ground. “This pocketwatch manages the perfect blend of style and street cred for the Druid-on-the-go”.
The Stonehenge has an exact, miniature replica of the henge die-cast on one side, and a compass on the other to help you get your bearings (any debates about Magnetic North, Leylines, Pyramids and Cropcircles can wait) . Sharpe obviously realizes the frustration you may encounter using this archaic method and should the disquieting feelings about modern technology wander off down the pub for a quick one, they thoughtfully included an analog mechanical horological device (a clock with hands) on the outside of the case. Just in case (sorry).
FOR ORDERS, DETAILED INFO, PHOTOS, HISTORY: http://www.Stonehengewatch.com/ or call Steve Sharpe (Designer, manufactuer) at Sharpe Products (973) 335-8535 or toll free 1-888-Watch-55.
CONTACT INFO: Peter Payack, inventor of The Stonehenge Watch™, at (617) 492-2913; 617-512-9196 (cell) or e-mail Payack@aol.com
