{"id":1344,"date":"2009-04-06T23:26:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T04:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:22:28","slug":"the-persistence-of-walmart-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"The persistence of Walmart watches"},"content":{"rendered":"

My watch is melting.<\/p>\n

The red markings indicate the LCD failure, but that’s been around for a while. Those particular black bars no longer activate meaning that I am incapable of distinguishing between 3:00, 8:00 or 9:00. 5:00 and 6:00 are also ambiguous. I think I knocked the thing too hard while making sandwiches.<\/p>\n

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It’s dissolving because I got acetone on it at ochem lab on Monday while I was cleaning. I look at it later. at I find out that it went all soluble on me. The text came off of the light button, which itself has fused to the main housing rendering it inoperable. <\/p>\n

It’s not a big deal; hell, it’s the reason I don’t wear my stainless steel watch to lab. I mean, the watch was $9. Part of me actually wants to continue the process to eventually get the watch to look like the Terminator at the end of the second movie. You know, like exposed internal parts with half the face missing. Then I could carve “NO FATE” into the wristband. <\/p>\n

(Nitpickers: I know that eroding under acetone would unambiguously be a dissolution and not a phase change, but this is the only vestigial remnant of an otherwise unworkable Salvador Dali reference. So get off my back. Jeez.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My watch is melting. The red markings indicate the LCD failure, but that’s been around for a while. Those particular black bars no longer activate meaning that I am incapable of distinguishing between 3:00, 8:00 or 9:00. 5:00 and 6:00 are also ambiguous. I think I knocked the thing too hard while making sandwiches. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}