XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:18:42 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   > Back when electronics became cheap, remember how clocks were   
   > incorporated into just about everything?  I had a ball-point pen with a   
   > clock in it.   
      
   I used those little round stick-ons to keep track of project hours. When I   
   couldn't find one I bought a $5 wrist watch at a flea market. The   
   department manager advised me I shouldn't leave a valuable watch by the   
   monitor. At least a blue stick-on didn't look lile much.   
      
   A friend bought a very early calculator for several hundred 1970s dollars.   
   I must have pissed them all off but I have several calculators that were   
   in the begging letters from various organizations in lieu of mittens or   
   return address stickers. The must go for 10 cents in volume.   
      
   Damn! Nobody sent me a calendar! I'm going to have to buy one.  Or not.   
      
   $ cal 1 2025   
       January 2025   
   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   
             1  2  3  4   
    5  6  7  8  9 10 11   
   12 13 14 15 16 17 18   
   19 20 21 22 23 24 25   
   26 27 28 29 30 31   
      
   Still works!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)