Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for September 14, 2022

Applesauce for brains

Nice PJs, Roy. Took me a bit to see it was an Enterprise type of ship. Nicely done, Scott.

The original root of the word was the same as WAKE. Staying AWAKE was what a soldier or sailor had to do while on WATCH. So the word became associated with keeping time, then somewhere attached itself to the time-keeping device. But Roy has a good handle on the staying AWAKE part.

As Newton said, a watched apple never drops!

And Roy won’t be getting something else for a long time.

Now that you make me think about it…

Roy is my favorite character!

Well, Roy, before digital, you could watch the little hands go around. (and around, and around…)

In 1972, Hamilton introduced the world’s first commercial electronic digital wristwatch. It retailed for the pricey sum of $2,100, which amounts to over $12,000 today. However, by the end of the 1970s, digital watches would regularly retail for under $10 a piece. In the 1980s, they could be found in cereal boxes as cheap giveaways, and today, they have been replaced by smartwatches.

—PCMag.com

i just ask ‘what time is it?’

Roy is starting to crack.

It’s shorter and easier to say than clockometer.

You could watch time go by.

A very good question, though maybe the original meaning (“wakefulness”, from wake) has something to do with it. It’s attested in the modern sense already in the 16th cent.

Call Dick Tracy, he’ll help.

A watched clock never boils.

Write it out.

Learning to tell time on a non-digital closck takes a lot of Blood, Sweat, & Tears.