Something else I don’t get: wall clocks that tick.  Why do people still cling to them?  The ticking is annoying as hell, I’d think once wall clocks could be made that didn’t tick that preferences would change.  I can’t even sleep with a ticking clock in my room, remove that battery & shut it up.  All I need is a nice, loud digital alarm clock: wake me up when I need to get up, be completely silent when I need to sleep or think, and show me what time it is any other time, the ticking is completely unnecessary.

I remember a childhood friend of mine, his parents had an electronic wall clock.  It didn’t look like a huge wristwatch, it had the hands and shit, it was just an electronic display instead of the gears and tick tick tick TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK. What ever happened to those?