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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Time Out
For years I've worn a watch, and for several of those years, it was a calculator watch. I didn't need to do calculations all that often, but I did like keeping 40 or so phone numbers handy. When I was younger, I was a big fan of watches that could play tunes - just a bar or two of beeps, nothing like ringtones these days.
My watches have always been digital. I can read analog watches, but it takes me a while, and I don't like how imprecise they are. I like being able to say "2:17" when someone asks me the time, rather than "somewhere around a quarter after." And, yes, I know that no one knows the exact time anyway - Chicago even sang a song about it.
For whatever reason, this summer I stopped wearing a watch. I have a perfectly great watch, too - it's just like the one Will Ferrell wore in Stranger Than Fiction, only it doesn't do things like make me late so I fall in love with someone. At least, it hadn't. Maybe I should have worn it longer? Hmm.
Anyway, I'm not sure why I stopped. It's made things more vague. I can look at the time on numerous devices - computers, cell phones, banks, radios - but I have less of a sense of time. I think maybe that's okay, but I'm not sure yet.
My watches have always been digital. I can read analog watches, but it takes me a while, and I don't like how imprecise they are. I like being able to say "2:17" when someone asks me the time, rather than "somewhere around a quarter after." And, yes, I know that no one knows the exact time anyway - Chicago even sang a song about it.
For whatever reason, this summer I stopped wearing a watch. I have a perfectly great watch, too - it's just like the one Will Ferrell wore in Stranger Than Fiction, only it doesn't do things like make me late so I fall in love with someone. At least, it hadn't. Maybe I should have worn it longer? Hmm.
Anyway, I'm not sure why I stopped. It's made things more vague. I can look at the time on numerous devices - computers, cell phones, banks, radios - but I have less of a sense of time. I think maybe that's okay, but I'm not sure yet.
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I stopped wearing a watch when I lost mine. But then cell phones came along and made watch-wearing pretty useless unless you're into tan lines, which I know you're not.
Seems like I just watched a tv show or movie where they made fun of the dude for wearing a calculator watch... I can't remember what movie.
Seems like I just watched a tv show or movie where they made fun of the dude for wearing a calculator watch... I can't remember what movie.
There was a time when I wore a wrist watch at all times. I would set it every morning to make sure it was accurate to second. Then in high school I got a really bad heat rash on my wrist and started wearing a pocket watch instead. Now I rarely have any sort of watch on my person and really I think it's for the best.
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: Sun Oct 19, 12:05:00 AM EDT
: Sun Oct 19, 12:05:00 AM EDT
It takes you awhile to read an analog watch? ;-)
Yea, well, wearing a watch now-a-days is more of a look, an accessory, if you will and not about telling time.
The best watch I ever had was a Casio that also had a compass. Ok so the compass wasn't that accurate but I had one dad gum-it! ;-)
Yea, well, wearing a watch now-a-days is more of a look, an accessory, if you will and not about telling time.
The best watch I ever had was a Casio that also had a compass. Ok so the compass wasn't that accurate but I had one dad gum-it! ;-)
The US Naval Observatory knows *exactly* what time it is. Eat that Cetera and Lamm!
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