{"id":182,"date":"2004-07-23T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vu2057.freddie.1984.is\/siggimustest\/2004\/07\/the-new-siggimus-timepiece\/"},"modified":"2004-07-23T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-23T20:04:00","slug":"the-new-siggimus-timepiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/2004\/07\/23\/the-new-siggimus-timepiece\/","title":{"rendered":"the new siggimus timepiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

(the following is an excerpt from news of siggimus<\/em>, ever so slightly modified)<\/p>\n

during a recent visit to centralais tirgus, reputedly the largest market in europe, siggimus decided to fill the physical & emotional gap left by the theft of his beloved watch, received along with a subscription to a colourful magazine<\/p>\n

after careful consideration & lots of windowshopping, he decides to go for a sharp quartz alarm chronograph, which he has subsequently come to know & love by the traditional latvian name of gvido<\/p>\n

gvido looks like a million bucks; big & impressive, with a state of the art digital timepiece underneath an oldfashioned dial one. distinctly modern, yet with firm roots in tradition. gilt all over the place, digits & hands, although the second hand is just red<\/p>\n

gvido’s digital bit is what siggimus calls impressive! not only does it tell the time, but if you prod it in the correct manner, you can also get information about a date. & as if this wasn’t quite plenty, there is also a stopwatch & an alarm!!<\/p>\n

the golden knobs are extremely sensitive to siggimus’ touch (one-touch, it is usually called in the literature). this adds a lot of thrill & excitement to the relationship, as siggimus never knows what he’s gonna get when he looks at gvido:
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-will it be a date?
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-or maybe the stopwatch?
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-will the stopwatch be stopped at 3:18:06?!? or will it maybe still be going at it, in a fitful race with time itself?
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-will the alarm & the hourly peep be on or off? (the artists who created gvido must have decided against seperating these siamese twins at birth; siggimus has yet to get one without the other). siggimus tries to keep it off, as the display will sometimes, or rather usually, go a little bit blank during the alarming peep, & sometimes even the hourly peep fades out into oblivion, but gvido obviously has other plans. when the display returns, the alarm & peep indicator is usually on, & the hi-tech chronograph will show incorrect time. sometimes gvido tries to trick siggimus by displaying the stopwatch saying something that looks like a watch 23 mins late, but then turns out to be the stopwatch trying to trick siggimus<\/p>\n

but siggimus isn’t tricked quite that easily, & checks the actual watch, finding it almost 9 hours off. should siggimus at this point try & set the watch to a correct time, gvido gets defensive & the display goes blank, only to return 4 hours later, 7 minutes late, but the date is february 29<\/p>\n

at this, siggimus chuckles heartily, & says “oh, that gvido! it’s some prankster watch!”<\/p>\n

some might conjecture that paying $10 for gvido is armed robbery, & someone else might call it a steal. siggimus says that it was an enormously prudent investment. the gilt digits & hands & the red second hand constitute a fully functional timepiece (going on three weeks now!), while the hi-tech bit provides for endless joy & entertainment<\/p>\n

there is never a dull moment for siggimus & gvido<\/p>\n

from siggimus.blogspot.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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