This product has been on the market for a while now, but it’s still worth a look. Evidently the Triple Nine Society, a high IQ club, had something to do with it; that’s their logo in the center. If you are confused by 7:00, Wikipedia will explain it to you. 
Three Nines Clock
Posted by acilius on February 5, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/02/05/three-nines-clock/
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cymast
/ February 5, 2009I’m almost embarrassed for people who actually join clubs such as Mensa and Triple Nine Society. Of course a club member reading my previous statement is excluded from my statement.
acilius
/ February 5, 2009I understand that a person who excels at the sorts of activities IQ and other psychometric tests measure might very well seek out the company of other people who excel at them, too. But to base a club on psychometric test scores seems like a ridiculous failure of imagination. Why don’t they form a club to, for example, invent puzzles? Are they afraid that if they don’t come out and say in so many words “This club is for really smart people,” the really smart people will be too dumb to figure it out?
cymast
/ February 5, 2009Exactly!
That, and basing a club on psychometric test scores seems insecure and baselessly vain.
acilius
/ February 5, 2009It sure does.
I like working at a college because the faculty includes a lot of very bright, interesting people. One thing I don’t like is that many members of the faculty, including some of the brightest and most interesting, have memorized scores they received on standardized tests they took years, sometimes decades, ago, and will drop those scores into conversation. People I admire enormously have this habit, and every time they do it my opinion of them drops a notch permanently. Brag about the books you’ve published, brag about your successes as a teacher, quote yourself saying witty things, even if it’s obnoxious while you’re doing it I probably won’t hold it against you later on. But tell me what you scored on the Miller Analogies Test in 1972 and I’ll never take you altogether seriously again.
cymast
/ February 5, 2009How embarrassing.
Kinda reminds me of a psychological evaluation. The first meeting and the psychiatrist is distracted and bored. The second meeting- after he has reviewed your psychometric test scores on his desk- he is stammering and almost fearful. While I admire the psychiatric profession greatly, I’ve haven’t met a psychiatrist I’ve respected.
acilius
/ February 6, 2009It’s interesting that you’re able to maintain respect for the profession when the only practitioners of it you have met are unworthy of your respect. I don’t think I could keep that kind of distinction in my feelings.
cymast
/ February 6, 2009I have a theoretical reality and a practical reality.
cymast
/ February 6, 2009Speaking of theoretical versus practical, how is .89999(repeating) not equal to .99999(repeating)?
acilius
/ February 6, 2009Dunno. It goes against the grain with me, too.