Notices by john fink ok!! :goat: (adr@mastodon.social)

Met a delightful newish faculty member with the same last name as me and when I asked her where she was from she said "near Cleveland" and then said "Youngstown" and I was like "man Youngstown isn't near Cleveland".

@mathowie christ man this shit became legal in Ontario in like... 2020 or something only and it is *fucking inescapable* and it's just .... god, it's depressing. Seeing Wayne Fucking Gretzky hock this shit what in the hell

@feld yup! Nothin wrong with a meca quartz!!

Outside of extremely narrow parameters, there is literally no point where a mechanical watch is superior to a quartz. The appeal of mechanical is nostalgia/expense and completely unrelated to any functionality whatsoever. Quartz watches are cheaper, more reliable, more accurate, and do more stuff than mechanicals. I own both types and love both types but I am completely under no illusion that mechanicals are inherently superior or anything.

I watched a new-to-me watch YouTube guy and he spent an inordinate amount of time shitting on quartz watches, so that is the last time I will watch that particular watch YouTube guy.

@MattTheQuick yup, you can tell as the U says "Light" and the non-U says "E.L. Light". That's the only difference on the case. The U is better anyway. :D you digging it so far?

@MattTheQuick awww man there you go!!!!

@thomasfuchs Computer Lib is probably the classic choice here, although I've not read it.

@thomasfuchs oh shit I hear that "household budget management" has an absolutely killer final boss

@jmorris whoa. I lived in Singapore in the mid 1980s and Sim Lim Tower was there and had a lot of shops that sold this exact type of stuff. It's nice to see that some things don't change.

Everybody stop what you're doing right now and eat a bug