{"id":372,"date":"2006-03-08T01:08:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=105"},"modified":"2006-03-08T01:08:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T09:08:04","slug":"geek-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Geek watches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm a big watch collector. I tend to collect the slightly more unusual end of the range, either they are leaders for their time (I have one of the first ever Casio Pro-Trek watches that combined thermometer, barometric pressure and compass) or just particularly odd. <\/p>\n<p>There's a good list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.productdose.com\/2006\/03\/07\/top-10-geek-watches\/\">Top 10 Geek Watches<\/a> available this morning that may be of interest to those readers who want something that makes them look the geek - at least to the people who recognize such things in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>Of those in the list, I don't have any (although I'm just about to purchase a Suunto X9i to go with the X6HR I already have), but then I'm also surprised that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fossil.com\/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&#038;itemID=26508\">Fossil Asteroids watch<\/a>, one of which I purchased in New York last year, is not in the list.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1959\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1959\" dc:title=\"Geek watches\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1959\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=fwq6SD\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=fwq6SD\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=105\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big watch collector. I tend to collect the slightly more unusual end of the range, either they are leaders for their time (I have one of the first ever Casio Pro-Trek watches that combined thermometer, barometric pressure and compass) or just particularly odd. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.productdose.com\/2006\/03\/07\/top-10-geek-watches\/\">Top 10 Geek Watches<\/a> available this morning that may be of interest to those readers who want something that makes them look the geek &#8211; at least to the people who recognize such things in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>Of those in the list, I don&#8217;t have any (although I&#8217;m just about to purchase a Suunto X9i to go with the X6HR I already have), but then I&#8217;m also surprised that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fossil.com\/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&#038;itemID=26508\">Fossil Asteroids watch<\/a>, one of which I purchased in New York last year, is not in the list.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1959\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1959\" dc:title=\"Geek watches\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1959\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=fwq6SD\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=fwq6SD\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=105\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}