[Spook E]

Does anyone know what this thing is officially called? Google says it's a "Configuration Dial":



I want to see how one would work as a risk identification / classification fun (as fun as this stuff can be) tool. The one above is used for pregnancy stuff, but i'm looking for a Word / Publisher template to help get me started, but all Google says on "Configuration Dial" is some garbage about dial-up networking in Windows 98.

Anyone?

[Mithras]

I think the answer will involve the word "wheel", but beyond that I'm at a loss.

[Spook E]

Thanks Mithras, between us we're on the right track, a few hits turn up for "wheel", and after some more searching, i turned up "decoder", but still nothing really.

It's probably too early in the morning over there / late in the day here, for too many comments, will check back in the morning, cheers!

[osiris]

A square?

[Big Mac]

That reminds me of Lisa Simpson's German verb conjugation wheel that she got by mail order.

[chabig]

I found this:

Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC)

[starman]

Isn't that the wheel used to determine the due date of a baby?

[awaspaas]

Is Spook E pregnant??

[cjrivera]

The only thing I've ever heard it called is the "pregnancy wheel".

[ghporter]

Generically, it's sometimes referred to as a circular slide rule or circular calculator. Specifically it's a due date calculator (and as such consider its results to be "guidelines" rather than anything more authoritative).

Basically this sort of calculator has some number of concentric wheels that you line up under a stadium/reference line according to some rule, and the result line shows you the answer. This requires each wheel to have multiple rings of data arranged appropriately for the calculation to work—just like a slide rule.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Circular slide rule sounds familiar.

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Generically, it's sometimes referred to as a circular slide rule or circular calculator. Specifically it's a due date calculator (and as such consider its results to be "guidelines" rather than anything more authoritative).

Basically this sort of calculator has some number of concentric wheels that you line up under a stadium/reference line according to some rule, and the result line shows you the answer. This requires each wheel to have multiple rings of data arranged appropriately for the calculation to work—just like a slide rule.

Is there anything you don't know?

Anyways it's used in Witchcraft. It's used to determine what kind of animal to change someone into.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster 

Is there anything you don't know?

Lots. But when something old that I've had experience shows up, I can sound smarter than I am by just having a decent memory. It's a parlor trick that I use at parties. A great conversation starter/stopper.

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Lots. But when something old that I've had experience shows up, I can sound smarter than I am by just having a decent memory. It's a parlor trick that I use at parties. A great conversation starter/stopper.

They need you in the moving violation thread.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Lots. But when something old that I've had experience shows up, I can sound smarter than I am by just having a decent memory. It's a parlor trick that I use at parties. A great conversation starter/stopper.

Hey, we should make you a mod or an admin.

Oh, wait, nevermind. Too late






-t

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Hey, we should make you a mod or an admin.

Oh, wait, nevermind. Too late






-t

LAWL

[Randman]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Generically, it's sometimes referred to as a circular slide rule or circular calculator. Specifically it's a due date calculator (and as such consider its results to be "guidelines" rather than anything more authoritative).

Basically this sort of calculator has some number of concentric wheels that you line up under a stadium/reference line according to some rule, and the result line shows you the answer. This requires each wheel to have multiple rings of data arranged appropriately for the calculation to work—just like a slide rule.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you ... Clifford Clavin.

[analogika]

How odd.

I'd just call it a "pregnancy calculator", since that's what it actually says...