I'm amazed analog watches have hung on so long. They do look classier than digitals, though.

So, am I the only one who avoids all the political talk through all standard media as much as possible, and is pretty much getting all my political info from Buffistas? (I sorta doubt it.) Y'all aren't exactly unbiased, but you tend to back things with actual evidence, and you're generally smarter than everybody I listen to (briefly) on my TV. Is that wrong?

This is usually me, but I have felt the need to keep up more with what is happening with this election. TCG is interested in watching everything to do with politics, so he is happy that I am interested in watching more of it this time around.

My only take on the technology thing is remembering my 2nd grade teacher, Mr. Coop, being very annoyed when one of the kids got a digital watch (the newest and neatest thing, waaaaay back then) for Christmas, because he wouldn't learn to tell time. And it's my experience that Mr. Coop called it. Not across the board, but I am often scandalized to meet people who simply can't read an analog watch. (And Mr. Coop had similar feelings about calculators - also new and neat at the time).

I remember teachers complaining about digital watches too. Also, in kindergarten, the teachers complained about velcro sneakers because we would never learn to tie our shoes.

Tea:

I talked to TCG. I think I am more disappointed about him not getting the job than he is. He really wasn't expecting to get the job, but of course I think he is wonderful and people should be falling all over themselves to hire him. I know I'm biased. I've been extra worried about his long commute since his accident, and I was enjoying the idea that he would be closer to home.

I am often scandalized to meet people who simply can't read an analog watch

seriously? Like grown-ups?

this is my favorite digital clock

I'm amazed analog watches have hung on so long. They do look classier than digitals, though.

I can't look at a digital watch without thinking of Douglas Adams.

He really wasn't expecting to get the job, but of course I think he is wonderful and people should be falling all over themselves to hire him.

heh, I've got a similar thing going.

{{{{Sean}}}} and {{{{{S}}}}}

We have analog clocks at school and I have a few students (not a lot, but a handful) who can't tell time on them. Hurts my head.

I'm amazed analog watches have hung on so long. They do look classier than digitals, though.

Totally. May be the only thing that saved them. I have more watches than any one person needs, but only...two?...of them are digital, both Sport watches. All others are analog.

seriously? Like grown-ups?

Mostly older kids (my nephew at 9 or 10, f'rinstance), but yes, a few adults too.

Also, in kindergarten, the teachers complained about velcro sneakers because we would never learn to tie our shoes.

I remember this complaint too!

I know I'm biased. I've been extra worried about his long commute since his accident, and I was enjoying the idea that he would be closer to home.

Totally understandable. Hopefully the next one...

{{Sean}} You and S are in my thoughts.

Deep, complicated, interconnected, academic research, and I do it all through the school's library databases

::head explodes a little bit, gets up on soapbox::

If one of my students, or one of the faculty members tells me they've researched their paper using only the databases -- and folks the legal ones are the best ones I've ever seen for content and search algorithym -- I know that they've only skimmed the top of what is actually out there. Estimates are about 20% of what is on our shelves (contemporary) is in the full-text databases. Example: Lexis and Westlaw have about 300-350 full text journals in the databases . . . we subscribe to about 1500 titles, indexed in the legal equivalent of the Reader's Guide, and we're a small law library.

As a librarian, a faculty member, a teacher, etc., I'm horrified by the thought of how academics of all shapes and sizes use this same 20% over and over again without ever seeing anything else. I weep for the knowledge that's getting lost every time a student tells me to "forget it" because he or she can't be bothered to walk to the stacks and get that article that addresses their issue exactly, because there's one online that's kinda-sorta okay enough.

::kicks soapbox back under bed::

(Yeah, I wouldn't want the person I am now grading the papers I wrote in college, either.)