Goat Day 9 - Watch 1

@duodec I had one of those years ago.
/image casio watch gshock dw-5900

@eonfifty I have a 35 year old Casio Marlin DW-200 that still works great, but it leaks since the last battery change so I can’t wear it. I would by choice; its a great watch. Currently sporting a 12 year old DW-5600E on its first replacement battery and watchband, zero problems with the watch itself.

Casios are like the classic Mercedes diesel cars that lasted and ran forever, on a normal car budget. Until the environmental overlords someday ban their batteries they won’t go obsolete like the various smartwatches. I expect both of these watches will outlive me. Not bad for less than $50 apiece.

@duodec That’s a neat, old watch!
/image Casio DW-200 (181) Marlin

@duodec @eonfifty

I own and love several g-shocks. Including my current go-to: a WearOS G-Shock 1st Gen.

Of course it doesn’t get the battery life of a typical G-Shock.

@duodec @f00l That’s a neat one too!
/image neat

@mike808 I’ve been monitoring that thread
/image monitor thread lizard

@mike808 I’ve never thought about how the word “repair” can also be written “re-pair”. Now we gotta go sniffing around the etymology online dictionary:

repair:
“to mend, put back in order,” mid-14c., from Old French reparer “repair, mend” (12c.), from Latin reparare “restore, put back in order,” from re- “again” (see re-) + parare “make ready, prepare” (from PIE root *pere- (1) “to produce, procure”). Related: Repaired; repairing.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/repair

pair:
mid-13c., “two of a kind coupled in use,” from Old French paire “pair, couple,” and directly from Medieval Latin paria “equals,” neuter plural of Latin par (genitive paris) “a pair, counterpart, equal,” noun use of par (adj.) “equal, equal-sized, well-matched” (see par (n.)). Originally of things. Of persons from late 14c. Meaning “a woman’s breasts” is attested from 1922. Pair bond (v.) is first attested 1940, in reference to birds mating.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/pair

So…although I was initially all excited about “repairing” being like restoring a broken item to a perfect relationship with its Platonic ideal (i.e., “re-pairing” it with that celestial Self), it’s not true. Alas!

@UncleVinny The act of “pairing” one item with its counterpart was what I meant, and to do so again, as in to re-do something, is where “to re-pair” the watch with a different/new phone. Because these watches are unable to be repaired such that the device owner can re-pair them at will.

The DMCA is evil. It steals knowledge from the public good by “privatizing” it.

@mike808 oh hey! So in this case, “re-pair” and “repair” are both appropriate. Niiiiiice. Plato would be chuffed.

@UncleVinny Yes. The meanings are cleaved.

@mike808 ISWYDT

@mike808 @UncleVinny

Plato just needed to work more “complexity” and “cultural drift” to his ideas of the “archetypal ideal”.

Plus, Plato failed to account for the natural “asshole factor” built into our brainz.

@f00l @UncleVinny Plato was unable to account for or even formulate a frame of reference as the entirety of those models availablenand observable to him were based only on one data point - that of Greek society, culture, and civilization. from which, one can reasonably deduce any conclusion about such that one imagines.

So cut Plato some slack on his incorrect perspectives when applying the cultural biases and innate human churlishness you observe when those biases are based on your modern hindsight of a pluralistic societal world view.

@mike808 @UncleVinny

My post was intended as humorous.

I’m a casual Platonic fangrrl.
Tho prob not an archetypal ideal of one.

@f00l @UncleVinny My comments were directed at Plato’s chuffery, not we mehtizenry.

I merely made a Socratic argument to demonstrate Plato was a feebleminded tool. Or to put it in terms even Plato could comprehend:

@mike808 @UncleVinny

Plato was a feebleminded tool.

Was he? He didn’t get to try out his republic.
He didn’t get an ultimate reputation as “the greatest” anything.

But he did get to be one of the greatest-of-all-time influencers, even if to spark others to go beyond his reach.

So … That’s a pretty good use for an Academy.
And for a writing pen.

@f00l

@mike808

Less a fangrrl of Plato’s Closet.

But sure! Nothing like a clearance sale on used philosophy!

@UncleVinny Pomeranians are awesome!

HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!

@UncleVinny

Awesome are Pomeranians!

VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!

@UncleVinny
/image awesome Pomeranian

VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!

@eonfifty

/image anime delighted eyes
(Well…that doesn’t work for some reason…so…)

/giphy anime delighted eyes

@ruouttaurmind

This G-Shock WearOS watch is the first “smartwatch” I’ve tried and actually liked.

And I like being able to look at my wrist and know who is calling or get the weather.

The rest of the “connected features” are little used by me.

I do like indiglo watches.

And I love trad g-shocks. The rep they have is: run over them with a tank. Or drop them out of a helicopter.
Once you locate them after the abuse, turns out they were cool with that.

/image g-shock

PS it must be a pain to be in a visual industry and have to deal with less than good eyesight. Sympathies.

@f00l

it must be a pain to be in a visual industry and have to deal with less than good eyesight

It’s not much of a problem at work. I just keep a pair of readers on my desk. My computer monitors are situated about arms length, and that’s where my bad vision evaporates. For now. As long as I can hold something at arm’s length, I’m relatively ok. But for scrutinizing printing plates and color seps I break out the readers or a loupe.

It’s the hot rods which present the challenge. Not everything can be accomplished at arm’s length. Particularly a PITA when welding. Glasses under the helmet is uncomfortable and they’re constantly slipping down my face.

@ruouttaurmind Love my expedition. Tough tracking down the olive canvas & leather band. The knockoffs don’t have the logo and don’t have the same tight canvas weave.

@mike808 My first watch was a super cheap Timex from K-Mart when I was about 7 years old. Decades later it still keeps reasonably accurate time. Of the 8 or 9 Timex watches I’ve owned, only one expired on it’s own. Casio makes a fine digital, but if it’s analogue you’re after, Timex is a perfect option for a work or recreation watch. And I don’t feel bad when I break one. For $30 or less it’s easily replaced.

@f00l @ruouttaurmind Here’s my Expedition EDC beater. The date function doesn’t work (for me) since you have to manually adjust it every month. Knowing what day of the month is what my phone is for if I can’t remember it. The time, on the other hand, I can glance at and impress the millennials because it’s analog and you can’t just read the answer to your questions off a screen.

@Kawa My dress watch I’ve had for near 40 years now. A B&M solid 18k case, sapphire crown. Beautiful. Understated. Classic.

@Kawa @mike808 My “dress” watch was a victim of the burglary. A Tag Heuer S/el leftover from the days when I had more money than good sense. I worked hard for it and am bummed when I recognize it was probably traded by the thief for a couple hundred dollars of meth or something.

@mike808 That is indeed gorgeous. I’ve never looked into B&M; maybe I should. (I think the Rado will still be my dream watch, if only for the story of passing by it while in a lakefront town in Switzerland and realizing at that moment why my mom likes watches so much.)

@ruouttaurmind I’m so sorry that was stolen from you. It’s a lovely watch and you worked so hard. One of my mom’s first purchases fully for herself after immigrating to the US was an Omega Constellation that she still wears (with other lovely watches rotated in; it’s Her Thing. Not as bad as Imelda Marcos’ shoe habit, but it’s the nice thing she collects, you know?) I’ll probably inherit that watch when the time comes.

@Kawa Your mother has fine taste in timepieces. The Constellation is a classic. Feminine, without being “girly”. Very classy. (assuming you’re referring to a ladies style?).

@Kawa @mike808

Those B&M and Rado watches are gorgeous.