Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Gujri % Dokota % ale hulli % black & white model % 80's model % vintage % 2-stroke engine % Scrap % classic




Did you say "Dakota"?? NO? perhaps it must be something similar depends upon native language;used to point out any pretty old 2 wheeler vehicle.

I was pretty clueless why it was called so & not even had second though as phrase itself had no conflict. It was hot day, while passing by a village in Manchester(in fact - Manchester has other name too "Town of village charm"), located in eastern Connecticut & saw an very very old truck with name DAKOTA on body side, and wondered by name familiarizes.


Immediate mind map - Ohh!, might be this was the name of vehicle brand back in 80's and later people used the same word to address any scrap old 2 wheeler. As usual approached online guru $Google$. Nothing surprising & to be honest I didn't felt great because of the below. May be even you dear reader would .......loose interest; sorry for that.

It's also a boy name in native America; don't ever check for urban dictionary - may go on crazy

A member of a North American Indian people of the upper Mississippi valley

FYI - Dodge Dakota(a.ka Ram Dakota) was nominated for the North American Truck of the Year award for 2000

Monday, August 14, 2017

Have you ever wonder why the wall CLOCKS in-store, are always show 10:10?


You may or mayn't have heard - oh that's just because,
  • It could have be the logo of the very first watch maker
  • May be myths out of the way, memorial 4 Lincoln/ JF. Kennedy/Martin Luther King were shot. 
On a side note,
The logo/first time piece maker, in the form of pendent with the hanging spring.
Also, Lincoln was shot at 10:15pm, JF Kendey was shot at 12:30 pm etc..

Actual reason be, that was 1 of 2 options left, to show the clock hands in symmetrical arrangement, while makers evolved accommodating the below over a period:








  1. 1st being the manufacturer's logo
  2. Later on & on - additional elements like date, day, month, AM/PM, year etc.. found their attractive pie around 3, 6 & 9; in-fact looked nice & cool too.
Somehow dial got it's components(leme call it as xtra-fittings or cosmetics😉) on it, and maker too would have satisfied by then. Although model looked nice w/ cosmetics, aren't it's organs(hour & minute hands) important to run(do well in market), and where wud they place it?? That's where the only 2 options(referred previously) left to show hands symmetrically - 8:20 or 10;10.

 


Marketing apart(despite where/when/whom to sell), what does world accepts?

Logically - 10:10 is not perfectly symmetrical, as the hour hand has moved one-sixth of an hour towards the 11, note that a couple of the timepieces in the picture are actually set to 10:08 or 10:09, presumably for greater symmetry.

Later than never - just in case, if one wish to know who gave the birth to watch?
Peter Henlein the german craftsman is often credited as the inventor of the "clock-watches" (taschenuhr), around Aug 1485.

Trend as taken turn(left? right? u-turn? it's 360 degree; everything @ 1 touch, and when i said everything - something that attracts/be the necessary for one, few BUT need not be for all. And this is where the customize-able takes birth👍