There’s definitely value in not constantly being tethered to a device reminding you how many steps you’ve taken, e-mails, etc. Also I’m reminded me of a quote:
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
ape-descended
It’s very popular to call humans some variant of this, and while it’s correct, it also implies that humans are no longer apes. They are.
This is true, there are two kinds of animal, monkey or ape. Because if it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey, even if it’s a monkey kinda shape. If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey, if it doesn’t have a tail…it’s an ape!
Or at least that’s what I learned from my parents force feeding me nothing but VeggieTales for far too long.
Yup, that’s correct! Primates without tails are apes, and we’re a primate without a tail.
The dream used to be one device that does everything but I’ve backed away from that mentality hard. I even have two separate PCs now with nothing syncing between them.
“ We promise it’s not just jewelry for men, promise, because men don’t wear jewelry. This is just a tool, and maybe a status symbol, but definitely not in the way jewelry can be a status symbol.”
I like to wear a watch, it’s shiny and has gold. Definitely jewelry but also I like to be able to check the time without my phone. I don’t think people are going for Timex as a status symbol though. They’re cheap watches.
I don’t think it’s bad, I just think it’s funny that so many men will refuse to wear jewelry unless it’s a watch.
Lots of masculine men wear jewelry. I see necklaces, earrings, any piercings are jewelry, rings, what’s more iconic than an construction site super with a big ass pinky ring.
Wrist watches used to be women’s wear. Pocket watches were for men until WW1 when they found out that wrist mounted timepieces are super handy when you need to carry a rifle all the time and launch attacks synchronized with walking artillery barrages.
Just like anything else it can be purely for looks or purely for function but the best stuff does both at once. A nice looking precise watch, a pen that looks and writes great, dress shoes comfortable enough to wear all day, an Italian suit with a tactical liner lol
I think I’d go for a pocket smartwatch since they have no need for a lot of sensors and room for a bigger battery. And yes, I do know that if you will take something out of your pocket anyway, why not just your phone? For that I have no answer, I still want one
First half: Heh, ironic because a phone is just a bigger smart watch, especially with an always on oled.
Second half: What would that even look like!?
Why not air allow yourself something that you like to look at and will look at often? Especially if it means looking at your phone less.
Plus even someone (smart) with an AP can respect a cool $60 watch, doesn’t have to be a status symbol or for others at all. (And in fact the first thing people realize when they start watch collecting is that 99% of people aren’t looking at them.)
Father, I cannot click the watch
Dearest birthing parent of mine, this timepiece responds not to my attempts at manipulation
To whom it may concern (the progenitor of my very existence):
The clockwork temporal measurement device strapped 'pon the writhing fleshy tentacle protruding from mine own thorax remains sullen and unchanging despite my best efforts at provocation.
Please advise.
O dear original source of half of my genetic material, including the differentiating heterotypical chromosome!
Despite my many attempts at interacting through my somatosensory system with what looked like a haptic receptor of a timekeeping mechanism attached to my sinestro-anterior limb, the visual indicator of the aforementioned radiocarpal joint-mounted machine keeping track of the flow of hours, minutes and seconds (important: please note only the latter is a SI unit) remains devoid of any hint of a reactive process consequential to my stimulus.
What the fuck.
67,055. Amateurs.
e: proof:
Self report for being unable to figure out how to disable notifications. My watch tells me the shit I want it to tell me.
