Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

if the plural of ox is oxen then the plural of brined salmon is loxen

NEW! FOR GAMERS! SHC LEDS!

That's right, Silver, Hazel, and Cyan!

Do they go together to make cool colours? No! BUT THEY'RE ALL ONE LETTER MORE THAN YOUR STANDARD PEDESTRIAN RGB!

I'm expecting a blue bezel and dial submariner with either no date, or a new movement

it could conceivably be both but that's more innovation than I've come to expect from modern rolex

Rolex have announced that they're announcing something on the 1st of september

place your bets now on how minor a change it is to one of their existing models and how long the waitlist's going to be by lunchtime

Well this is delightful

The S.U.F. Helsinki Sarpaneva x Moomin

It's got a multi-layered dial with moomintroll on there! And the background is painted with multi-coloured superluminova so it glows wonderfully in the dark!

Unfortunately it's expensive (€5,000) and also entirely sold out but it is lovely

Ooh, shiny

Yep, those are onyx globes, the right one with indices so you can see what time it is in half the world, the left one the constellations currently above you

And that is indeed a tourbillon down there at the bottom

Aaaand... it costs about a quarter million euros

I'm not buying one because the 47mm case is a bit too big for me, yeah, that's the reason, just a little too big, no other reason

In Ireland, a man called "Prawo Jazdy" racked up over 50 driving offences

Nobody could work out how he was getting away with this until the Irish police made a startling discovery

That "Prawo Jazdy" was Polish for "Driving License" and a load of Irish cops were reading IDs wrong

Polish and Irish driving licenses both have the exact same format

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go camping and pitch their tent under the stars. During the night, Holmes wakes his companion and says: Watson, look up at the stars and tell me what you deduce.

Watson says: I see millions of stars, and even if a few of those have planets it's quite likely there are some planets like Earth, and if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life.

Holmes replies: Watson, you idiot. Somebody stole our tent.

I hope they are anyway

there's only so much bronze and forest green you can look at

I think bold colours might be very in this year

4 new versions of the Carl F. Bucherer Patravi TravelTec in blue, green, yellow, and orange that have just been announced

These look kinda interesting, the Breitling Endurance Pro

Thermocompensated SuperQuartz movements, COSC rated, case made out of something called Breitlight (your guess is as good as mine), compass bezels, and a pulsometer scale

Comes in 5 different colours, you know I'm a sucker for orange

BEES ARE GOOD
BEES ARE GOOD
ALL OF THESE BEES ARE GOOD 🐝

@noelle HAPPY BIRFDAY! 🎉

thing I've picked up on from the few USAian crafting videos I've seen, it's always brand names that are mentioned

like, "oh, use some mod podge", or "put your elmer's glue here", or "use some JB weld to fill that"

it's weird to me as someone whose first exposure to crafting tutorials was via the ruthlessly brand agnostic BBC

also the wide range of atrocities of the empire is definitely something to be at least embarrassed about but that's not actually the reason behind this one

the BBC is dropping the lyrics to "rule britannia" at the last night of the proms

the right is yelling about it being because the song sounds colonial as fuck and that people "shouldn't be ashamed of our glorious history of empire" and "the left just don't want us to have this"

the actual reason it's being dropped is the fact that a dozen people singing it in an otherwise empty albert hall will sound at best depressing, at worst just shit

"Maybe the real treasure is the friends we made along the way"

"shut it, Frankenstein"

CAN WE FIX IT?

hmm... we're going to have to order in some parts, the branded ones aren't cheap, might be able to get it back to you in a week?

me, an hour ago: hm... I should look into server monitoring stuff

"so, you've got grafana for dashboards but that needs to talk to prometheus or loki or munin or something else and that talks to something or another and then there's a query language that's different for each thing and you have your data sources..."

me: I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF MACHINE THAT GOES BRRR IS STILL GOING BRRR

EA JORTS