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RIP Andy Grove.

Did it add warmth to the meowdrange?

I'm sure there is a logical roadmap for the future. But you have to admit the present lineup is direly confusing. And I'm not sure how they are going to wiggle out of now having two current-generation devices of different sizes with exactly the same name. In the other product lines (i.e. phones) there's always a suffix to denote size or feature differences. But you can't really back into that if you initially made the larger and more powerful configuration the basis for the category -- "iPad Pro Minus" probably not a huge seller.

That was remarkably perfunctory. But in for a couple of 128GB (smaller) iPad Pros as the kids have pretty much beaten their Airs to death. What a fucking dog's breakfast the naming conventions across the range are now. iPad mini 2, iPad mini 4, iPad Air 2, iPad Pro, iPad Pro.

Set up an SQ5 test drive, Chris? You'd enjoy booting that occasionally too.

Happy Birthday Al!

https://www.omegawatches.com/watches/seamaster/aqua-terra-150m/seamaster-aqua-terra-15000-gauss/ Dunno if they do one in gold (or sedna, or whatever they call it.)

EU energy efficiency regulations.* (* According to Boris Johnson.)

Embracing your online detractors?

Their bacon is bad and they should feel bad.

Who the fuck cooks only 7 pieces of bacon?

Dew eet.

Next level!

Which is better?

Do they have banter in Texas?

Try them on a cookie rack if you like crisp bacon.

Not to be portenteous, but otherwise it will be lost. Oral history dies with its participants, like poor Chu.

Tyll, this is just a random thought, but have you ever thought of writing a piece on the Genesis of the hobby. You are the only person who could do it justice.

Wow that's stark, Tyll.

Inside you can .. you can ... feel the difference.

San Fermin doing the boy-then-girl thing.

Thunderbirds was one of the first TV series I ever followed (we only got the box in South Africa in 1976, as the Apartheid government correctly feared it would corrupt the morals of the populace by opening a window to the rest of the World). I had watch it dubbed into fucking Afrikaans as "Redding Internasionaal" ("International Rescue"). Still loved it. RIP Sylvia.

It was for my wife. So I guess I should have said I haven't bought myself a watch in years. That might have changed today though.

Haven't bought a watch in years now. Which is odd considering I still religiously spend at least a half hour a day checking the grey dealers, forums and Chrono 24 to keep up with what's out there. Might just sell the lot to create some impetus and start from scratch again under the pretense of building a "rational collection."

Happy Birthday!