number four weekend-casio

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

Makes me think of one of my favorite quotes ever:

"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-eight 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

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[quercus.livejournal.com]

Also possession of a Casio F91W can be enough "reason" for the US government to declare you a terrorist, kidnap you and throw you into Guantanamo Bay without trial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F91W

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of the scene in Back to the Future where Marty in 1955 is making a phone call and his watch beeps. The guy from the diner is like "WTF?"

It's subtle but true; that sound would have been downright BIZARRE in 1955.