Notes to self:

[desperance]

Good though it is with numbers, my watch will not actually tell me how many words I've written today; therefore there is no point my looking at it, when I am away from the computer and wondering this thing.

Also and similarly, fine keys though they are, my house-keys will not actually admit me to the Lit & Phil, therefore there is no point my taking them out of my pocket as I approach its door.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

In Montreal one shows/swipes one's monthly transit pass to get into the Metro, and not at any time thereafter on the journey. I have lived in Montreal for more than six years, and I still find myself taking the thing out when I am getting off the Metro out of entirely irrelevant London reflex, despite using the London Underground being a thing I did maybe one weekend a month or two for the couple of years I last lived in Cambridge.

I also frequently try to open the office door with my home key, no matter how many times it fails to work.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I have tried to open my house door with a swipe card before now.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

You need a SonyEricsson MBW100 (http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/28/sony-ericssons-mbw-100-bluetooth-watch-reviewed/) watch then!

It connects to your phone via bluetooth and you can have your PC text you the word count and have it appear on the watch :-)

But I understand entirely!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

See, I just knew there would be a gadget... (But I don't have a phone, so I don't think this is the one for me.)

[ellarien]

It's been several years since my workplace switched from metal keys to plastic cards and boxes that beep, but I still find myself reaching into my pocket for the keys as I approach the door more often than not. (The card lives in my waist pouch, and will work its beepy magic without actually coming out.)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

(The card lives in my waist pouch, and will work its beepy magic without actually coming out.)

Now that's neat.

[bluehairsue.livejournal.com]

The best similar thing I have actually witnessed was Rorey getting back from a long walk, taking his car keys out the rucksack lid pocket, pointing them at the tent and going CLICK -- then looking puzzled when the tent failed to unzip itself for him...