That is the collective weight of the city's 7,291 voting machines, those hulking booths that magically appear in school gyms and parish halls whenever the electoral clock tells us it is time again to choose our president, our mayor, our surrogate judge.
In and out of the restaurant, the bathroom, the doors of the airport, attempting to read and being unable to read, calling a friend back home--dozens of moves, yet the clock tells us only a few minutes have passed.
Jones, the Seth Thomas Clock Company's tower clockman, who travels all over the country, just fixing tower clocks, told us about the Paramount clock.
Our bodies don't have just a single internal clock that tells us when to sleep and when to wake.
"Light is a signal of wakefulness for our biological clock and tells us that it is time to be awake and active," said Docteur Joëlle Adrien, neurobiologist and Research Director at l'Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) in Paris, France's national institute of health and medical research.
It's funny at the luncheon the producers got up there, acting like stern principals at a junior high school telling us the clock starts right away and we have 45 seconds.
Expecting to do it all in one go is unrealistic and boring too, so allocate a set period of time either every day or week and keep to it by using an alarm clock telling you when to stop.
Rather, Mr. Perry "only changed the hands on the clock," telling state regulators that "you don't need to take two or three years on this".
The famous description of the clock at the beginning of every episode – "Here is the clock, the Trumpton clock, telling the time steadily, sensibly... .. – was only ever recorded once.
It also stipulates that there will be a clock telling leaders how much time they have left for answers, which will not be visible to the audience or viewers.
