I love to see new and inventive ways of measuring the passing of time, and especially I love this fabulous "Digital Calendar" (haha) that Bre Pettis laser-etched onto his fingernails.
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If by "fabulous" you mean "a insipid waste of time", and by "calendar" you mean "an uneven yellowing list of the names of the month without any actual dates", then yes, I agree.
Sorry for the double-post. The system hung on me.
"calendar" schmalendar: I wanna iPodNail!
How accurate would that be? Do fingernails grow at a regular pace? I'm pretty sure that differing nutritional conditions, and some diseases, can lead to slower nail growth.
And if he gets one of them caught in a car door or something equally unfortunate it will all have been a bit of a waste.
What if he gets a hangnail? Does he time travel?