{"id":571,"date":"2006-02-17T04:31:16","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T04:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2006-02-17T04:31:16","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T04:31:16","slug":"digital-watcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Digital Watcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/bandwatch.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>What do you first notice about the hand?<\/p>\n<p><b>The self-inflicted cut?<\/b><br \/>\n(I don&#8217;t cut myself; I got this while sleeping on the bus in a weird angle, I suppose.)<\/p>\n<p><b>The Open Minds wristband?<\/b><br \/>\n(I got this from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=442\">Spirit Of Independence gig<\/a>, which really is for charity, for Down&#8217;s Syndrome, and not some money-making Nike fad.)<\/p>\n<p><b>The digital watch?<\/b><br \/>\nWell, hopefully, you&#8217;d notice it <b>in that order<\/b>. I wear the wristband so I can say that I got it at Paul&#8217;s Place, for a real charity, and also to distract from the fact that I&#8217;m wearing a digital watch.<\/p>\n<p><b>People say digital watches are uncool.<\/p>\n<p>However, the same people can&#8217;t read analog watches.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I love digital watches. I love the alarm. I love the stopwatch. I love the auto-resetting countdown timer on this Casio, and the Casio before that (thanks to colleagues for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=505\">getting the right watch<\/a> with enough features as a present or I might not wear it&#8230;) And yes, I can read an analog watch well.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, my blue hair is a distraction to my long hair which is a distraction to&#8230; something else, which I will only explain to you in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you first notice about the hand? The self-inflicted cut? (I don&#8217;t cut myself; I got this while sleeping on the bus in a weird angle, I suppose.) The Open Minds wristband? (I got this from the Spirit Of Independence gig, which really is for charity, for Down&#8217;s Syndrome, and not some money-making Nike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}