Hopstretch

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/04/23/chinese-government-says-please-stop-hiring-funeral-strippers/

Stretch the above!

All covers should come off this well.

Pappy thieves! Hanging's too good for them, amirite? https://www.yahoo.com/food/workers-busted-for-allegedly-stealing-barrels-of-117006802221.html : Mikey's ears prick up :

Yes. Just back up to iTunes, switch SIMs, connect new phone to iTunes and restore from the backup. Pretty painless.

Yeah I also liked the blue leather loop a lot, which was out of left field for me.

Duly noted.

I tried on the blue, two-register titanium Speedy Coaxial in the mall today. It's a winner and in your size sweet spot at 44 mm, Jeff.

PS: The engineering on the link bracelet makes everyone else from Patek on down look like a bunch of fucking mugs.

Went for my Apple Watch "appointment." Left sold on the stainless 42mm w/ a link bracelet and a black sport band. Also left with an iPhone 6 Plus that I had absolutely no intention of buying on the way in. See, that's how they get you!

Getting back to watches, I just watched the Hodinkee Lange video and now need to change my pants. http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/Inside-a-lange-and-sohne

Quality! Do you have a picture of the headphones with the new pads installed, please?

Blur were brilliant on Later last night.

Brian Wilson -- No Pier Pressure Proper sign-off.

Hot Chip -- Made In The Dark

Happy Birthday!

Sufjan Stevens -- Carrie & Lowell Sad and beautiful.

Torche -- Restarter

Fish motherfucker! Do you eat it?

Dew eet.

That story really pegged the whiney-ometer! How dare people spend their money on things I find frivolous (or can't afford)? Don't they know there are children starving in (insert suitably benighted region)?

Jeff, what about a Deepsea Sea-Dweller if the 40mm Rolex sports models wear too small for you? Otherwise, again, would look at an AP Diver on a bracelet. Butch as fuck!

I predict beautiful, beautiful music.

All perfectly valid reasons.

I'm just finding as I go along that I don't really want a date window on my watches. It messes with the symmetry of the dial (egregiously so in the case of a lot of chronographs). The Rolex cyclops of course literally magnifies this effect, however practical it may be in use.