whooosh ...

Because I like mechanical things and am utterly fascinated by proper clockwork. None of that quartz shit.

Personally I carry both a watch and a cell phone at all times and always end up checking the phone for time instead of the watch. When I'm not on the move I usually just check the computer because it's much closer to hand than either the watch or the phone.

One question though, why would you buy a printer that doesn't follow standards? That's like using IE to browse the internet and we all know how wise that is ...

Why not? We have one of those impressive big multifunction printers at the office and all it takes is telling my mac "hey, there's a printer there" and it just works.

Whereas my colleague on windows told the computer where the printer is, then had to install the drivers anyway (it's a shared thingy) and after two hours of fiddling around simply gave up and let me print his stuff. Windows is a funny system like that ...

This isn't the fucking 1990's again! Printers and pretty much anything else is supposed to just work (tm) when you plug it in ... then again, I guess some people are still on windows.

Quite simple actually, they tell you when you need to start closing stuff. See my computers often get laggy because I'm doing many things at once and it's useful to know who the culprit is. Did I forget to shut down a tab with flash in it, or did something hang in the background and made everything crap. Often with two cores you'll get a hung app and not notice for a few days before you tax the other core enough to start problems.

Oh I understand that trust and whatnot are very important, don't worry, parents taught me that well enough. Like if you don't display yourself as trustworthy then people won't trust you and it will be much more difficult to get them to do stuff for you ... just an example.

Perhaps I just learned at too young an age that trust can be gamed and manipulated and that even if people momentarily lose their trust in you it's relatively easy to regain that trust at will. And if you don't want htem losing trust you simply make certain you aren't caught doing whatever it was you did.

There isn't really, why wouldn't I want to brag in front of my parents? If I deem a behaviour brag worthy then parents obviously aren't excluded from that since they're just people too.

I hate to be a kill joy, but I still have jobs flying my own way without anyone asking them and whenever I do poke my nose out and ask if anyone needs some work done there are offers coming in literally within minutes.

It's not the state of the job market that's the problem, it's people's attitude that is.

Sorry for duplicate reply, but, just why do parents think the "I lost a lot of respect in you and quite a bit of trust" line works? Now maybe I was just special, but whenever my parents tried to pull that shit on me I just laughed about it and did the exact same wrong thing next time, often simply because they would get 'upset' about it. Seriously, there is nothing more amusing in the world than making your parents snap at ya. It's funny, they're so powerless to do anything they just end up shouting and making themselves feel strong.

I'm a, to put it lightly, heavy twitter user. Just how much do you think I would have kept from my parents if it wasn't out of pure spite of not telling them because they ask too much?

And the simple answer is that you're obviously sticking your nose in other people's (your son in this case) business.

Seriously, if my parents weren't so nosy they'd probably know a lot more about what I do day to day.

Over 80? How archaically slow, real men type at 120+ wpm at 98+% accuracy!

Yeah it was probably a covert social contract that they allowed me to give nonspecific info, but my info was very broad. I basically told them I wouldn't leave the city or go anywhere that requires money to take a ride ... which I don't consider very useful info at all.

And about flat out lying, yes it's misbehaviour and yet I was never grounded, not even when I was constantly coming in 2+ hours late. It's very difficult to punish someone who simply doesn't give two shits. In fact if they were to call me while I was out and ask where I am, I'd usually just tell them despite having flat out lied beforehand, this naturally increased their "aw he can't lie to us" reflex and I could lie much more easily about the big things :)

So what about that, what if you have a child whom lets you catch them on small lies, but never on big ones?