Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@InspectorCaracal ah, personally I need to get everything ready at the start then have to put down times for everything and follow that exactly to minimise spoons usage, not at all good at parallel processing when I'm tired

or at all for that matter, but especially when I'm tired I need to serialise everything

@InspectorCaracal I personally veer towards "just put it on for x minutes and have an alarm or something" rather than "keep an eye on it until it's cooked" but I guess it depends on which particular variety of spoons you have

@InspectorCaracal oh actually, apparently the easy cook stuff takes slightly longer than the non-easy cook stuff, so adjust the time down a bit and that tip'll still work

@InspectorCaracal I think the easy cook just has stuff done to it to reduce stickyness

@InspectorCaracal I'm pretty sure it works with the non-easy cook stuff, but I'm not entirely sure as easy cook is the variety that's cheapest and most common over here

@InspectorCaracal if you forget about it it'll go really mushy and not particularly nice but still edible

@InspectorCaracal we use the easy cook stuff, you can probably find it in your supermarket somewhere

@InspectorCaracal small possible improvement to the rice cooking method on your blog:

for long grain rice, get a pot of boiling salted water, throw in the rice, bring it back up to boiling, then turn off the heat, put a lid on it, and just wait for 10 minutes

check it's the right texture at the end, if it's not ready just leave it in there for a bit longer, drain, serve

don't even have to keep an eye on it

I've had this for about a week now after a long time of saving up and quite a while of waiting to get my tentacles on it

This is the Sinn 556 I MoP S, it's one of Sinn's entry level models but it really is excessively nice

Fit and finish is excellent, the movement is running well within COSC standards, and the dial is fucking stunning whenever it catches the light

Any pictures I take just don't do it justice, it's just beautiful

@maple what if robot girls?

@noelle "wannabe" is a song about polyamory

Seriously, "if you wanna be my lover you gotta get with my friends"?

ENGLAND: literally the only country where, when given large amounts of opiates, we think to ourselves "let's trade all this for tea"

I personally think that the Ladies' Watch prize should have gone to Moritz Grossman, Men's Watch to Vacheron Constantin, Men's Complication to H. Moser et Cie., Jewellery Watch to Bvlgari, and Artistic Crafts to Vacheron Constantin but I'm not on the judging panel

The winners of the 2018 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève were announced today, the Aiguille d'Or winner was the Bovet Récital 22 Grand Récital (pictured below)

All the other winners are listed here: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-bovet-recital-22-grand-recital-takes-home-the-aiguille-dor-at-the-2018-gpgh-awards

@Jo that and the sheer disappointment of not having enough wine when you could have sworn you picked up a proper bottle

@Jo they're 2/3rds the size of proper bottles, so if you pick one up thinking "oh, that's a decent price for a bottle" then you'll be sorely disappointed that you only get 2 glasses out of it

Keep an eye out when you're in Tesco, they've started selling 50cl bottles of wine with verrry small labels saying they're not proper wine bottle size, you might get caught out if you're not careful

@Jo nothing they release can possibly match up to the mental image of Geralt fronting a death metal band I have in my head right now