Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

The GPHG finalists for 2019 have been announced!

It basically the oscars for watchmaking

https://monochrome-watches.com/gphg-2019-finalists-announced-full-list-news/

Personal favourites are the Grönefeld 1941 Principia Automatic, Hermès Arceau L’heure de la Lune, Ressence Type 5, and Bereve Timepieces Numbers – Enamel Grand Feu

poor Reggie's got an ear infection so we're going to have to clean his ear out every day while they run the tests to figure out which particular brand of beastie to give him antibiotics for

he's probably not going to enjoy us doing that but we do always bribe him with milk so he doesn't mind too much

BIG HEDGEHOG

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my kingdom for an auto-updating "these are the instances what we block" list

This is cool, Hamilton are doing a re-issue of the W10 watch that was issued to the British military in the 1970's

I've been informed that yelling "WHEEEYYYY!!" any time a waiter/barman/etc. drops a glass on the floor, thus smashing it, is not a universal response

What do you lot in other countries do?

breakfast cereal is just kibble for humans

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@mavica

image by u/Deus_Payne on reddit

I've had to buy more storage for pictures from the hedgiecam

current disk usage is 31.2 GB

fuck.

@mavica you'll like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffgWvdZyvk

the little *flump* to get on the charging station!

"affordable"... I don't think that word means what you think it means Hodinkee

There's a TV show in this concept I'm sure, meetings that must have happened

skits throughout time about all the really weird meetings that must have occurred

like the one about the orion project, "we want to ride nuclear explosions into space", "you mean like, a nuclear reactor creating thrust in a controlled way or something right?", "nope, blow up a nuke behind us and ride the shockwave", "... YOU WANT TO DO WHAT?"

Meetings I wish I'd been in: The one where Abraham Lincoln received the offer of a whole bunch of elephants from the King of Siam to help in the north american civil war

"Next on the agenda, the King of Siam is offering to send us elephants"
Everyone in the meeting: "what?"

@mavica whoops

should I tell @mavica about the star trek game that's in bsdgames or would that just utterly kill byte's productivity...