Tuesday 9:07

Fair puzzle and a pangram. "Not on my watch" ties the other long clues together. Thei ends are all part of traditonal watch, but the clue is what a smart device owner might say (or a hint to the ends of 20-Across etc.) since a smart watch has none of those things (although what's a "case" is watch terms?) The smart watch seems pretty excessive as a device. Most texts are brief, but not so brief as I would want them in tiny text on my wrist, much less e-mail. I already have a phone, and it can do all that and much more, on a device that's much easier to use. If the watch could totally supplant the phone that would be one thing, but it can't, so you're going to have a phone anyway. A smaller, less useful phone on your wrist is nonsense.

I don't know. I'm far from a technophobe, but I do appreciate a paper book, a real magazine, a real deck of cards, physical software. I can appreciate breakthrough tech, too. The iPod, the iPhone, those literally changed my life. But I doubt a watch ever could. Phones have been supplanting the watch for years. It's as if we've all gone back to carrying pocket watches

Blah, I don't like this little treatise, but I wrote it, and I do have a blog, so whatevs. <clicks Publish>