more invigilation

[gfish]

Interesting side-effect of the mass abandonment of watches in favor of using the clocks built into cellphones: kids today can't tell time during exams.

Also, it's pretty funny when, in the middle of a 3 hour exam in a big echo-y gymnasium filled with 400 students, someone's cellphone starts to play the Harry Potter theme. More exams need John Williams scoring.

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[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Watches are in the way, and fragile. I've never had the money for the really tough ones, and I suspect I'd break them anyway. Every watch I ever had, I had to replace straps multiple times, and/or replace the watch because of impact damage. Last couple just randomly died, so I just went to using my cellphone, which because it lives in a pocket, isn't at as much hazard as watches.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I admit I take mine off whenever I'm doing machining, but otherwise my current watch (http://www.falconwatch.com/images/COMBAT_large.jpg) has stood up to some very heavy wear over the last 5 years. I'm not a naturally graceful person, and it gets slammed into walls at least twice a month. I'm on the... 5th? band, of course, but that's just to be expected. And the current one has lasted almost 2 years, I think -- it pays to spend a bit on nicer leather bands.

Unfortunately, this model has doubled in price since I first got it. But even at $240 I'd be pretty happy with it. Good styling, not ridiculously huge, solid design.

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Geologist/medievalist - They die due to impact with rocks, strong EMF (when I was in the SHRIMP labs), or tools/weapons/bits of drilling rig, etc.

I'm also a skinflint - I just can't see the point of spending that much on something I know I will regularly exceed the specs of, and therefore break.