Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

wait, let me get this straight, for the past 104 years an anthropomorphic peanut with a top hat and a monocle has been selling fellow members of his species to the US populace for consumption

what the shit USA?

Turns out Cmdr William Pogue wore a non-approved Seiko 6139 during Skylab 4 about 11 years before this and so that was the actual first automatic watch in space but nobody knew that at the time

While I'm being a total Sinn geek, did you know that the Sinn 141 S was one of the first automatic watches worn in space?

It was on the wrist of Reinhard Furrer during Spacelab D1, a similar watches were also worn on Mir and during Spacelab D2

He bought the watch privately and wanted to show that an automatic watch would still wind itself without the help of gravity

they're also getting rid of the 75x series which are classics

still, hopefully they'll be releasing some super interesting stuff to replace those, they're due to bring out two new watches in mid-february

:( Sinn just discontinued the T2

Real shame, there's nothing quite like it on the market anywhere, 41mm tonneau case, titanium so it's really light, sad to see it go out the collection

The T1's still there though, but that one's 45mm so just not the same

Ooh, cool new watch if you're a Queen fan

Limited edition Seiko 5 "Red Special"

Dial inspired by Brian May's guitar, his signature on the display caseback

Edition of 9,000 and will cost around €560

https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/news/20200123-64494105459

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are bread

A Tom Stoppard play enacted in a bakery

have my [i]what[/i] cleaned and valeted?

addition to the "computers are just magic rocks we tricked into thinking" thing; circuit board layouts are really just weird sigils aren't they?

What we really need with all this royal family crap is for Harry Windsor to take up painting or sculpture

So he can be the artist formerly known as prince

gender is a spectrum

by which I mean it uses a Zilog Z80 CPU and mostly reads data from tape

I finally used the letters after my name on a thing and I've just realised that I should totally have done the form for the universal life church thingy so I could put "The Reverend" at the front as well

Ah well, remember it for next time

667 is the fax number of the beast

just how many times do you have to go to communion to have consumed an entire jesus?

it's a tolkien ring network