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Originally Posted by moonzero2
What are those gages in the glass case?? Temperature and humidity??
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No, that's my chess clock. Back in the heyday of my early model rocketry years, I was also
very much involved in playing chess games (the Fischer - Spassky Match was the spark for
that). I can tell a funny joke that happened at one chess tournament I went to in the early
1970's: It was in Baton Rouge, LA at some downtown hotel (next to the Mississippi River),
me and a couple of buddies of mine were headed to our hotel room as we entered the
elevator. There was a middle aged couple already in the elevator. After the doors shut
and we started going up, the woman began to look a bit nervous at me; finally she asked
me if I was carrying a bomb! I chuckled and said "No, this is my chess clock, and we're
playing in a tournament here."