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My proposition is simple. An alarm clock which synchronizes its alarm with a rooster monitored at your time zone's Rooster Monitoring Center. The RMC facility houses a rooster and a computer which listens for the "cockadoodledoo". A small fee paid for the service pays for maintenance of the RMC.
Don't
be fooled by imitators, our system is the only one which uses genuine free range roosters.
Rooster Clock
Rooster_20Clock
Shameless [skinflaps, Dec 31 2007]
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Since roosters crow for many different reasons at all hours day and night, being rudely awakened at 2:00 a.m. would be a regular occurance with your system. |
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My cell phone alarm is very good at understanding that when I tell it to ring at 5:10 a.m., that's all it does. It doesn't seem to care if a wolf arrives before dawn (at a monitoring center as much as 1000 miles away, no less). |
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She enjoyed it, or at least said she did, and I still respect her this morning. |
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I used to have a Lego Robotics kit, many years ago... built an R2-D2 replica. The CPU, mounted in the center of the robot, had a light sensor designed (it actually recommended this in the instruction manual) so that you could put it on your windowsill and when it the sun rose and light hit the sensor, the robot would turn on and start squealing like R2-D2. Worked remarkably well, never got set off by passing cars or anything, but it woke me at the crack of dawn reliably. |
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//Wake up at the crack of dawn, guaranteed!// |
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That's gotta be bloody annoying, especially at the high latitudes in midsummer. |
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Can't help noticing how utterly useless this would be for those of us who have to get up several hours before sunrise. Only upside is the ability to annoy your neighbor, but my neighbor gets up an hour before sunrise, too. |
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So, you subscribe to a rooster that lives on the east coast, if you live on the west coast. |
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...Indian Rooster Centres, with massive arrays of diurnally-sequenced illuminated soundproof cubicles. All rooster calls arrive at your bedside phone, just as you sit down to dinner... |
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...unless you register yourself on the "Do Not Rooster' register. |
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"Yo, Ramasamaswarmathery, are you on Rooster Roster today, my goodnessness?" |
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