[time-nuts] Stuff I bought

[Jeff Mock]

Brooke Clarke wrote:
> 
> I have a Suunto wrist computer and like it very much. The normal time, date, 
> alarm, stop watch functions plus compass, altimeter/barometer and thermometer.
> Which compass did you get?
> 

I didn't get the wristwatch, The Suunto tandem is a hunk of aluminum 
with a liquid filled compass and a liquid filled clinometer machined 
into the case and optical sites for both.  It has a long red strap you 
can hang around your neck, no electronics, no batteries...

The website is difficult to link to, click on the "precision instrument" 
section.  I learned about it from a cinematographer friend.  Evidently 
it's popular with film types for planning shots with the sun or moon. 
You see the instrument on the Discovery Channel show Sunrise Earth, the 
main photographer guy always has it hanging around his neck during 
interviews.  In addition to being pretty accurate, it's the sort of 
product that feels really nice in your hand, it makes you look for 
excuses to use it.

jeff