Alter Mann, Alte Uhr

Ok, so i've been chillin' with my laptop in sis's room. it's quiet. Both of us doin our own thing, on our own computers. Strangely there is no music played by either one of us, but it is nice. Quiet is nice sometimes, no? But all is not quiet.... I hear a recurring noise. I look up. On the wall hangs a clock. What i hear is the ticking sound of a second hand circumnavigating the 5 dm diameter disc marked with numbers and hashes. A good ol' fashioned (there's that phrase again) clock. Fresh off my last blog, i think, yeah, i'm old, definately old.... In the digital age, it is nice to hear the sound of something so simple and mechanical as an analog clock. IDK, there's just something soothing about it, no? (unless you're taking the SATs or in the Final Jeopardy round) like how they say if you put a[n anolog] clock next to a puppy, it'll fall asleep easier, as it mimics it's mother's beating heart. how sweet, no? the world is on it's way to becoming totally digital or computerized or what-have-you. I think there are some things we need to retain to keep our sanity—think you not? Or am i just an old fogey (sp?) now? I imagine a cold, steely, sanitized future where all humans look the same, dressed in our Kevlar onesies, our mouths shrunk to slits, cuz we don't "eat", but intake vitamins or take injections or pills or have a time release implant; where our mouths are slits cuz we do not talk, cuz we've learned to use the other 90% of our brains and now comunicate telepathically, and there is LED lighting all around and all clocks are digital-- or perhaps we'll just have a clock downloaded directly into our brain. It is scary, think you not? Even for Ridley Scott—think you not? I'm just sayin, there are some things of which i just can't let go. Maybe i am just old. Maybe i am uptight. Maybe i am a nerd. Maybe i am right. Maybe i'm wrong. I guess i just have to think that i am glad i am living in the present day of the human timeline, cuz, the past is absolutely horrible, unless you are a king or something, but I digress. What was I talking about again, oh, yes, clocks. Ironically, my default screen-saver on my shiny new Blackberry is an analog clock. Maybe all hope is not lost.