Anyway. I believe everybody was given a gift, a strong suit, something that "comes easy" to them. Something that they just "see" My geophysics friend, that boy can do some math. Something that's definitely not my strong suite. Music, I got zip. Spelling? I spell dog...c-a-t. You need something mechanical, I might be your guy.

I got hooked up with a guy who cut the paper out of books to recycle the paper. He had an old machine, the size of a car, that in it's life had the purpose of trimming the pages of a book nice and neat and square. A guillotine cutter, it was called because of the downward angle motion of its cutting blade. It reminded one of a guillotine. He told me countless times about hiring some guy to time the machine and it took the guy three days. I couldn't believe an engineer of old would make a machine like that to where it couldn't be timed by the maintenance man daily, in a few minutes. I got him to rotate the machine by hand so I could see it work. Took me about thirty minutes to figure it out and two or three to actually time it. I just see it.

There's an internet news site out there that calls itself 1440. Why 1440? There's 1440 minutes in a day. 60 minutes per hour time 24 hours in a day equals 1440 minutes per day or 360 degrees of rotation. 720 minutes in half a day or 12 hours or 180 degrees of earth rotation. 360 in a quarter day or 6 hours. If one were to divide 1440 minutes by 360 degrees you would see that it takes 4 minutes for the earth to rotate 1 degree. In reality, I think this may oscillate a bit but on the clock and globe this is the perfect. 4 minutes-one degree...8 minutes-2 degrees...12 minutes-3 degrees. To get to 15 minutes past the hour we need three more minutes...each minute equal to 1/4 degree. 3.75 degrees equals 15 minutes on the clock.

3'75 degrees=15 minutes(or 90 degrees within the hour)...7.50 degrees=30 minutes(or 180 degrees withing the hour)...11.25 degrees=45 minutes(or 270 degrees within the hour)...15 degrees=60 minutes or the complete hour.

This is why the latitude lines on the globe or map are placed every 15 degrees...they represent an hour of time...there are 24 of them...24 hours times 15 degrees equals 360 degrees. One might discover some interesting things should one measure your price chart in the same way.

The mechanical expression is like the epiphany of the 1967 Pontiac Lemans' engines lower end. .