...Am now bereft, unbelieving, angry.

May 22, 2009 10:25 PM

every hour my watch emits a chime. this is my signal to become mindful, document the moment, and decide what to do with the next hour. this site is an archive of such moments.The site's named after the terrorist-abetting Casio F91W wristwatch. Apparently they now come with a free Thesaurus. "Somehow managed to destroy my lovingly sculpted firefox profile of all its passwords and add-ons. Am now bereft, unbelieving, angry."

"Creeping inevitable hayfever explodes out of my nose, pouncing on my tired body like a tiger, leaving me ravaged and luckless."

posted by leotrotsky (25 comments total)

I've been trying to come up with my own:

"I feel fetid, sallow, my nosehairs lunging at impartial air currents. Alas, I am impacted. Calm."
posted by leotrotsky at 10:33 PM on May 22 [1 favorite]

God, I just recently returned to using this watch because of fond memories from childhood. That little beep is a piezoelectric memento mori.
posted by phrontist at 10:37 PM on May 22

When annoying people have interesting ideas
posted by regicide is good for you at 10:38 PM on May 22 [1 favorite]

not interesting enough
posted by livingdots at 10:56 PM on May 22

He's from Glasgow! I don't care if he's annoying, I miss Glasgow!
posted by nímwunnan at 11:00 PM on May 22

reminds me of this guy (also unbelievably annoying)
posted by radiosig at 11:16 PM on May 22

"I feel fetid, sallow, my nosehairs lunging at impartial air currents. Alas, I am impacted. Calm."

Reads like a deserved the bloody nose.
posted by Mblue at 11:21 PM on May 22

Reads like vapid Twitter
posted by Cranberry at 11:24 PM on May 22

Reads like vapid Twitter

As opposed too..?
posted by delmoi at 11:34 PM on May 22 [2 favorites]

As opposed to twapid vitter.
posted by dersins at 11:37 PM on May 22 [1 favorite]

Apparently, you can be locked up in Guantanamo just for owning a Casio F91W. Reading this blog, I starting to come round to that way of thinking.
posted by MuffinMan at 12:42 AM on May 23 [1 favorite]

Am I the only one who misread that quote as "every hour my watch emits a crime"?
posted by katillathehun at 1:04 AM on May 23

A purpose-built electronic beeping thing: the Thinkgeek Annoy-a-Tron.
posted by WalterMitty at 2:01 AM on May 23

Am I the only one who misread that quote as "every hour my watch emits a crime"?

so right it must be a typo in retrospect
posted by doobiedoo at 2:50 AM on May 23

Crime-emitting diodes can emit such lavender prose, can't they.
posted by chicobangs at 2:57 AM on May 23

Twitter, solo.
posted by bwg at 3:51 AM on May 23

Yeah, I didn't think Twitter could get any more masturbatory.

Cheaper than therapy, I guess.
posted by rokusan at 4:28 AM on May 23

As opposed to twapid vitter.

The Honorable Senator from Louisiana will kindly desist from including the rest of us in his wristwatch sex-play, thanks.
posted by kittyprecious at 6:21 AM on May 23 [1 favorite]

"I feel fetid, sallow, my nosehairs lunging at impartial air currents. Alas, I am impacted. Calm."

This not the work of a thesaurus. This is someone composing on his fridge with a magnetic poetry kit.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:57 AM on May 23

@youlott: I'd be inclined to give your opinions of twitter more credit if they didn't seem tailor made to fit the character limits of said site.

Likewise critiques of this fellow's site would seem more reasonable if this thread didn't resemble a twitter copy called "Shitter: a place where assholes can do their business"
posted by srboisvert at 8:37 AM on May 23 [1 favorite]

I foolproof way of increasing mindfulness, just gimme a second to roll you one.
posted by The Whelk at 9:59 AM on May 23

The challenge of actually having a website has always been content. Blogs took off because all you had to do is say something every now and then. Now twitter-based sites reduce that to saying next to nothing -- and the SMS-length constraint gives you a plausible excuse. I'm waiting for the next big thing, in which you don't have to do anything at all.
posted by George_Spiggott at 10:13 AM on May 23

being content with their own website/blog/twitter is a challenge most webmasters never overcome.
posted by the aloha at 10:54 AM on May 23

If this thread didn't resemble a twitter copy called "Shitter: a place where assholes can do their business"

> register shitter.com
> That domain name is unavailable.

Dammit.
posted by rokusan at 11:52 AM on May 23

Shitter?
posted by hattifattener at 1:20 PM on May 24