Eyeroll

Doug M. creates store displays. At a holiday party for one of his clients, he won a digital binary watch, but really didn't know what to do with it. He showed it to me in January. I pressed the button on the side and announced that it was 8:45 or something and he immediately told me that I could have it. :=)

So I've been wearing this watch ever since, and I really rather like it. It's definitely not something that I would have purchased for myself, especially after seeing the price, but it's a nice little conversation piece and I imagine that learning to read binary on a regular basis is like jumping jacks for my brain cells.

I showed it to Russell shortly after I started wearing it and he was mildly interested. But last night as we were riding the train home, he asked again how it worked and I described binary notation to him. He seemed very interested, so I loaned the watch to him for the night. Immediately after he put it on and was admiring it, another passenger struck up a conversation with him, asking about the watch.

Russell called me up this afternoon. He took the metro to the Discovery store and picked up his own digital binary watch, which seems a bit out of character for him. He's a graphic design geek, not a computer geek. In addition, the price tag was about $80, which, as he explained to me, would have been about what the price would be had he ordered it online and paid for shipping.

If nothing else, it should be very noticeable when he checks the time in the dark at the Eagle.

Revisiting desire

Last month, I posted an entry listing things I'd like to buy.

So far, I've resisted the temptation on everything except that I have made a reservation for the Chesapeake Squares fly-in. I tried to make a reservation for the convention, but the host hotel is full and they're trying to land a contract with an overflow hotel.

I still think about a new iPod video, however.