Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, February 01, 2011

This makes


perfect sense to me.

Revenge of the Analog Clock

Perhaps its why I have never liked digital watches, but never really knew why. Well, there is the fact that, for some reason, most manufacturers used to make them look as plastic and rubbery as possible. That, and that they were given away for next to nothing - or even nothing - as electronics manufacturing became more prevalent. Now that they try to make upscale digital watches, its too late. I can't get over the fact that they really are inexpensive to manufacture, so simply adding 'bling' doesn't make them more valuable or accurate...


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