Tourmalin's Time Cheques

I was prompted recently to find and share a group of free audio links for science fiction and fantasy. While reviewing the links I shared, I tripped across an unfamiliar title and author:
Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1891) by Thomas Anstey Guthrie.

Simply put, our protagonist, Peter Tourmalin, is bored aboard a sailing vessel returning him to England from Australia and is given the chance to bank some of his spare time for later usage through 'time cheques.' Upon presenting a time cheque to any clock, he is taken back to some of the spare time he has stored.

I enjoyed the story quite a bit, with its twists and turns. One of the readers was far inferior to the others, but only reads for a short while - it was a bit jarring to have her voice, but survivable.
http://www.archive.org/details/tourmalins_time_cheques_0911_librivox

Should one not wish to listen to it, it is also available as a google book.
http://tinyurl.com/yfbaybh

(If you look at this when the tinyurl has expired,just do a search for the title at books.google.com and it will turn up.)

I was less than thrilled with the ending, but enjoyed the story overall quite a bit.

Non-verbal communication poll for a friend's course

My friend Warren (whom some of you know) is looking for help for a course project on non-verbal communication - and has a shortish poll he'd like folks to take.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/27ZYZ67

I'm interested in the results, myself.