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Persistent eeriness: I "catch" clocks at exactly 9:41 more often than I "should". I don't look at clocks that often! But every time I do, my dumb brain thinks "you're living in an Apple-designed simulation!!!" engadget.com/2014-04-14-why I'm sure it's just Baader-Meinhoff—but funny.

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Why 9:41 AM is always the time displayed on iPhones and iPads | Engadget

If you've ever paid close attention to Apple's advertising materials, you may or may not have noticed that the time depicted on Apple's products is always 9:41 AM. Apple's affinity for 9:41 AM is...

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Makes me wonder if other people with a particularly salient clock time in their lives notice the same thing.

4:46 PM · Jun 6, 2021Twitter Web App

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Reflecting more: the real explanation is simple. I do 40m pomos and keep a timestamped log when starting each block. I start working around 7:45±15m, so each day odds are very biased that a timestamp will land on 9:41 (corresponds to a 7:41 start time).

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11:11 comes to mind

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Happens to me with July 17 too, because of the original iCal icon.

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Jun 6, 2021

Oh, nice! I don't have that date in my head the same way, so of course I don't notice it. Minds are so silly.

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Jun 6, 2021

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About 12 years ago, my wife & I had a phenomenal run of 11:11 clocking co-incidents. We would crack up laughing cause it happened so eerily beautifully. Slapstick serendipity you think happens in tight fast screenplays & film magic.

Jason Cunliffe

@nomadics

Jun 6, 2021

Oops -- i just remembered better It was 11:23 /// Seeing that HBO reference in this thread jogged my memory /// It's age , but also the cognitive numeric sleep wake eat patterns get triggered in fascinating ways. I think it touches on deep subtle chrono-spatial awareness

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Yep. 2:22