Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

This is Mari Lwyd (image cw'ed for skull)

In Welsh tradition, at christmas, Mari Lwyd will come around all the houses in the town with a bunch of mates and sing loudly that they want to enter your house

You are then obliged to sing back with reasons they can't come in and the argument continues until you run out of ideas and it then comes in with its mates and you have to give them ale and food

In the UK we like to name our gritters (vehicles that spread grit on the roads to increase traction in icy conditions, owned and operated by the county council)

Lanarkshire just got Gritter Thunberg

Should anyone else want to put a gonk on it, here's an image with a transparent background

ah yes, "Moose stalks couple eating poutine", just the image I needed for my website!

these are amazing

https://cira.ca/stock-images

stock images courtesy of the canadian internet registration authority (thems what hand out the .ca domains)

I need one of these

it's a USB power bank in the form of a little mini petrol generator!

Seiko are bringing back the "Alpinist"

Now under the Prospex line, going to be $700-$750, 6r35 movements, available with black, green, or grey dials

there's not much mention of badgers around here

here's a badger

they are good

here are some cute pictures

a lot of us could do with some right now

tawny frogmouths are ridiculous muppet birds and i love them

kiwi birds are good and cute

2: it's a nail

1: no, it's a tack!

The inevitable Bond No Time To Die limited edition Omega's been announced

Looks quite nice

Which it fucking better had for €8,700

I mean, yes, this one's titanium but almost double the price of a standard Diver 300M?

Hell, that's the price of two Tudor Pelagoses... Pelagi.... Pelagodes? Two of them titanium watches what are made by Tudor

It's expensive, is what I'm saying

Couple of Seiko limited editions

Look nice, have a cool honeycomb dial design

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Model numbers SSA409J1 for the 40.5mm and SSA781J1 for the 33.8mm

Price around $600-ish, both come in rather nice wooden boxes with an extra quick-change strap, 40.5mm version limited to 6,000 pieces, 33.8mm version limited to 3,000

New Pacman version of the Timex T80

https://www.timex.com/timex-x-pac-man-t80-34mm-stainless-steel-bracelet-watch/TW2U32000YB.html

Same as the usual T80, but with Pacman!

Would you like to give the gift of a totally rad computer pin this holiday season?

You can!

They're $8 each with $5 flat-rate worldwide shipping

DM @mavica to buy them

Get in soon though, last date I can do delivery by Christmas is 2019/12/06

everyone: stop tooting bad jokes!
me:

The Curta calculator was invented by Curt Herzstark in the 1940's, it's a fully mechanical little maths machine

They used them to mine bitcoin before computers were invented

Huh, this is a neat thing

Which I fully expect to be incredibly uncomfortable to use

https://www.8bitdo.com/n30-wireless-mouse/

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HEDGIE BLEP!