My parents used one of these to plan the vacations:
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SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I enjoyed looking at the big map of my state and calculating the approximate time we would either pass a city, or arrive at our destination. It was fun. I was pretty close too!
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SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
That’s really cool!
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I have one of those. They’re useful for measuring distances on topo maps where pretty much nothing is a straight line.
lautre@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Yes, i used one for planning hikes.
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used to do something similar on my trips back from college, calculate my ETA based on the mile markers and my speed. I was damn near dead on, too!
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Hell yeah! I still do that on road trips to pass the time. Keeps things a bit interesting.
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Here’s another one, I didn’t have a watch and only had a flip phone back in college, too. I got pretty good at estimating the time based on shadows thrown by poles or trees and north. I joked (and won one bet, at least) that I could tell the time to within a 10 minutes increments. I mean, that’s not super challenging, now that I think about it again, due to the hourly schedule you’re already on at college. But, hey, it’s one of those goofy and ridiculous things you joke with your friends about.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
That’s pretty cool. Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode.