3.08.2010

Nota Bene, from Dame Muriel

How obscurely pleasing that this is the most popular watch sold on Watchismo.

But give me death, or a wrist-reminder of same, rather than the hourly snarks provided by the same manufacturer's Mantra design. Who needs mechanized calibration of one's self-esteem? Surely Nature provides sufficient organic curbs: seventh-graders, ingrown toenails, rejection in the personal ads, the great humming hive of the more-successful and their waxy drones.

I am convinced that the Mantra originally was a DARPA project, a third-generation torture device. Waterboarding is but apple-bobbing, in comparison.

3 comments:

  1. If I wore a watch -- I used to carry a pocket watch, but when my last died I gave it up -- I would want a meek, voiceless, obedient bit of machinery. Practically everything talks back these days, surely we don't need to go out of our way to find more snarky instruments than we already have?

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  2. Of course: suspenders means a pocket watch. No belt, no band, no constraint. CS because you didn't always have to wear a tie?

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  3. I might get this watch if 2.0 comes out with full Magic 8-Ball functionality.

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