That’s my personal email – which was public at one point because I was the contact for a festival – and I stopped caring to weed out spam like fifteen years ago. I’ve had this account for more than 20 years.
“ 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.
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.
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.)
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
Mfs really be like “ohh but you gotta charge it once every day or two” ok and? The things are tiny it takes like half an hour to charge my apple watch se once a day, and that’s after 2-3 years of daily usage so it’s battery isn’t exactly happy anymore
That’s the biggest issue of smartwatches IMO. They will all end up in a landfill after approximately 5 years while you’ll be able to give that Timex (or your F91W that costs less than a pizza) to your grandkids.
I think the beautiful colorful screens and many faces of smart watches are often more attractive than another plain looking standard watch. That timex is ugly
I would honestly enjoy a watch like that if it didn’t have 6768342 pieces of text on it. I’d rather have to read the manual and have a less cluttered looking watch. For now, I’ll stick to my automatic Seiko.
They make minimalist and ana-digi wave ceptors that are pretty sweet. Plus a classic square g shock model will have very little clutter, even less on a Timex Ironman if you like that look.
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
well they were entirely made up of account executives, insurance salesmen, and management consultants so I think it’s still fair to call them “ape-descended”
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.
Well what they applied the example to was a cow, citing that due to its tail out was a monkey of course lol. But yeah it does apply to primates for sure. Also a notable example is in Pokémon where you have mankey who evolves into primeape and loses their tail in the process. Of course this also kind of implies that apes are just angrier, stronger monkeys.
Also completely unrelated to our conversation, but relevant to your username…Metriod is my absolute favorite gaming series, Metriod Prime is amazing, and I always wanted to be Samus when I grew up.
I enjoyed dread, I mean i wouldnt say its my favorite, but i has a good time with is. It was also nice to have some fresh content after so many years, I didn’t think it was particularly anymore focused on twitch reflexes than the other games, especially compared to the return of Samus remake. But idk, I mean everyone is different, I’m sorry you were dissapointed.
And yeah, at least is wasn’t ‘Other M’ I mean that game isn’t even officially Canon anymore.
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.
Only because the dreams of digital security and privacy (and functionality) died first. If I could be confident doing work and personal stuff on the same devices, I would.
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.
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.
<span style="color:#323232;">Brought forth, my mind, my spirit, conscience and flesh and all
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Into this universe, by merit of affections made by thee
</span><span style="color:#323232;">As forebearer, Zeus as to Hephaestus, as you to me
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Echoing ancestral age's call
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">From infant times, whenst could I not procure my own
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Through learning and advancing in my worth
</span><span style="color:#323232;">You held me high, and pushed me forth
</span><span style="color:#323232;">By song affirmative in words and tone
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This trust of merits, my esteem, oft besong by you
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Make these words, this moment, this request
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Become the heaviest of my behest
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Albeit an inquire I can not undo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Upon my arm, as equator round our very earth
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Is bound with leather strap, and nimble lock
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A dream of time, of days, of tick and tock
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Of life, it's passage, to the grave from birth
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A timepiece, chroniker, a metronome, a watch
</span><span style="color:#323232;">In and of itself a wondrous thing
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And as I watch it circumnavigate it's ring
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I have but a single question, single catch
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">When on it's surface, with extended digits laid
</span><span style="color:#323232;">With tap, with stroke, with haste, with patience and between
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Expected outcome of my action, none are seen
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And of my merits, now am I afraid
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I humbly ask of you, my genesis, my kin
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Am I the one who know not how to utilize
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This measurer of time, this timeless prize
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Am I unknown to functions laid within
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">No prodding, poking, touch or stroke
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Have rendered changes visually
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And therefore I conclude I now can see
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The functions I can not provoke
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I utter loudly "what the fuck"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Have you equipped it with parental lock?
</span>
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