Posted on 08/17/2010 8:57:37 AM PDT by JoeProBono
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.
The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch....
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What a small world! I sold my only wristwatch (with hour, minutes, second hands) on ebay for $1.
(Just kidding.... )
I try to avoid wrist watches as much as possible. Not exactly sure why.
But the digital clock on my car’s dashboard has started to die. Sometimes it’s lit up brightly, as in its youth, and other times it’s completely blank. I never realized how much I relied on it until it started blanking out on me.
Oh, the other thing I miss is being able to call the local time and temperature phone number to get, of course, the local time and temperature...
Not everyone’s time is spent with those devices.
I thought Dirty Harry was compassionate...to the law-abiding citizen not to the punks who were preying upon society.
For example, we had a maggot named Philip Markoff, the medical student who robbed prostitutes and murdered one of them, commit suicide in the Suffolk County Jail on Sunday. Rather than simply say, “Well, the punk saved the taxpayers of Massholistan the cost of a trial and the cost of keeping him in prison, fed, and in good health,” the idiots around here are wondering if the correction officers could have done something to prevent the suicide. Look for plastic bag liners to be removed from the in-cell trash cans rather than providing draw-string bags in the cells of all who are awaiting trial for murder.
Ever see the way a cat acts when you try to put a collar on it?
A wristwatch has the same effect on me. I can’t wait to get it off.
Got a watch just like that! Found it on a Kangaroo!
“...the idiots around here are wondering if the correction officers could have done something to prevent the suicide....”
You’re right. It is not the duty of the Dept. of Corrections to prevent suicide. If they are able to protect inmates from other inmates they are doing a good job w/o having to worry about a guilty-as-Hades depressed brat hurting himself.
What is metrosexual about a wristwatch?
I was a radio DJ in the late 70’s through the 90’s and remember playing 45’s and 33’s. When a record got “cue hash” at the beginning (which it always did) we always had a 2nd copy. Every now and then, I’d go to the bathroom and come back to a skipping record.
I did mornings and made crank calls called “Rude Awakenings”. There was no caller ID so it was easy and fun!
We got fan mail, contest entries and complaints via snail mail.
By 1999 I was in talk radio and just getting into e-mail. It all went by so fast!
These little progressives would consider me a relic.
“five hundred cable channels, of which they will watch a handful, have always been the norm.”
IF the viewing public were permitted to OPT IN on channels buying only the ones they will view, Big Media would be largely defunded.
Viacom, Disney, Time-Lies-Warner LIKE bundling your program channels, getting a slice of your bill even when you don’t have their channels programmed into your remote.
You aren’i diving or navigating cross country when accurate time keeping may be vital. A watch is a tool of many functions.
“Russia has presumably never aimed nukes at the United States”
Even today Russia has its nuclear arsenal aimed at the United States. They have a doomsday device primed to launch a “response” at the US if nuclear detonations are detected. It was designed to override the insubordination of a Soviet who refused a “mutually assured destruction” launch order in the 1980s.
“#9: Smoking wherever you want”
...I was a smoker in the 70’s and 80’s and remember people smoking in grocery stores, the rear of planes, department stores, everywhere. Nobody seemed bothered.
“They will now be awash with a computerized technology that will not distinguish information and knowledge. So it will be up to their professors to help them. A generation accustomed to instant access will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in books and journals and not just on-line.”
This is pretty much Ray Bradbury’s point.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2572183/posts
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“We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. “
I've got a different model in that line:
Solar-powered, radio-controlled and accurate to the second. No time to set, no batteries to change. The only thing you ever set is the timezone when traveling — the hands wind forward or backward to the new local time in a couple of seconds. The daylight saving switch is automatic. Had it six years. Cost $130, if memory serves, but available for considerably less without the titanium band. Casio markets essentially the same watch under the Oceanus brand for five or six times that price. The Japanese have forgotten more about horology than the Swiss know.
I tend to forget to wear it a lot of late, however. It's redundant when also carrying a phone.
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