As Jeffrey Goldberg and Alexis Madrigal have reported, an Atlantic contingent is in Aspen this week for our annual Ideas Festival. More on the topic from me as time, event-obligations, and thin air permit; meanwhile Atlantic updates here and on Twitter at #AspenIdeas.

Whole different topic for the moment. This morning I was on a panel with the legal luminaries Jeffrey Rosen, Jonathan Zittrain, and Lawrence Lessig, moderated by Richard Wilhelm (formerly of the NSA, now Booz Allen Hamilton). The topic was "Freedom of the Press in the Age of Wikileaks," etc.

Lessig was sitting to my immediate left, and he started to laugh as he looked at my wrist. What he saw is below, photographed just now after I took it off. (Not that easy, I discover, to take an acceptable picture of a watch while you're wearing it.)

Yes, it's my beloved $25 Timex Indiglo watch, model T20041, the kind I have sworn by for years. It's known by its big black numbers, its faux silvery case, its red second-hand, and its elegant brown pleather strap. I love this watch because it's easy to read in the day; because it lights up (gently) at night, if you push the stem button; and because I can buy backups in bulk, so that I never have to worry if I lose a watch or leave it in the car or in the pocket of my other coat or on my desk. I have an inventory of three or four in various places and reorder when the stock runs low.