CDC also advises the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others. Cloth face coverings fashioned from… Read More ›
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11 Cynical Truths About Life
Happy people don’t wear rose-colored glasses, they just accept the world as it is. And the world has a lot of unpleasant and unfair things in it. And the people who don’t want to notice this, just keep making the… Read More ›
The Tudor Black Bay 58. Perfect?
I bought a Black Bay 58 in January 2009 on a leather strap and found it to be too small and somewhat lost on my wrist. It was hard to describe exactly, but something didn’t worth right for me. My… Read More ›
Are the problems in the watch industry by design?
Many watch collectors and fanatics feel discouraged about different aspects of the contemporary watch culture and community. There’s the enthusiast who prefers forums over Instagram, the fanatic with nostalgia for the “glory days”, the collector who loathes the secondary market… Read More ›
Getting through lockdown with a 2006 iPod Nano
I take the Nano out with me during my government-sanctioned daily walk through my neighbourhood. My husband occasionally joins me but we usually take separate trips so that we each get some alone time. I’m also quite content to leave… Read More ›
25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them
Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven. Heaven is the place where good people go when they die, but this man, Fred Rogers, didn’t want to go to heaven; he… Read More ›
Time for some reading
Europa Star has recently published a superb selection of articles and I would recommend checking them all out. You may also want to subscribe because the volume of content available is insane. Here is a small selection of the latest… Read More ›
We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves
We’ve survived 200,000 years so far—2000 centuries. There’ve been risks during that time, most famously of asteroids hitting the Earth, as seems to have happened 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs were wiped out. That’s one type of risk… Read More ›
Rolex and the Date Window
Before the Datejust came along, the elements and technology to make it possible were already in place and in use by various watch companies. Calendar watches would often display the date around the dial’s periphery with a centrally mounted hand… Read More ›
My Digital Generation 2.0
After finishing writing My Digital Generation in 2007 it took until the lockdown for me to find the time to update it. The final version is now available here and I hope you enjoy it. Shaun
