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Awesome and cheap stretchy NATO from AliX.

I bet it would be a hit.

The WD0012 checks a lot of boxes for this seasoned collector.

-Retro sizing/styling
-Long, simple hour markers
-“Aged” lume dots and matching hands.
-No date

I love that this is an homage to a non existent watch. Back in the ‘90s, I spent days upon days searching for an old school Datejust dial with these kinds of markers to fit my more modern 16200. I never found one.

Back then I was a movement snob, so the Oysterquartz was not my cup of tea. Dumb.

For $125, this is the watch I pined for for years. The finishing at this price point is pretty astounding. I’ve definitely paid more for much less.

I bought a small $125 cordless LED accent lamp from Zara Home. It was a lot smaller, 4.5”, tall than I’d hoped, so it didn’t end up working on the side table I’d plan to place it on. It also doesn’t give off the nicest light. It’s too cool and the alabaster shade makes the light kind of pink.

One thing I really liked about it though was the charging. When you plug in the USB C cable to charge it, a small red LED inside the shade glows. When the red light turns off, it’s charged. Very handy.

I might use the lamp somewhere else someday.

But for now, I ordered another table lamp, a domed Visual Comfort “Melange”, 12” tall. This one was A LOT more money, but i got 25%off.

It’s nicely made, but it has absolutely no charging indicator, inside or out, unless mine’s defective. Very dumb.

And it’s a touch lamp with 3 levels. But instead of a low-medium-high touch cycle, it’s high-medium-low. I’ve owned several touch lamps over the years and I’ve never had one that started on high. So counter intuitive.

It’s baffling to me that a $125 lamp has nicer features than a $1500 lamp. Does anyone else own the Melange and can verify there’s no charge indicator?

We just moved to a new place and Gemini has been invaluable in giving us previews of what lamps, rugs, tables, etc. would look like in our space.

Case in point, this small wireless rechargeable lamp that we have been contemplating. I asked Gemini to clear the end table and place the lamp. I told Gemini the height of the lamp and the dimensions of the table. The result is flawless as far as I’m concerned, and it resulted in us ordering the lamp.

I just took delivery of a new B68. When looking at the nose straight on, the leather on the left side is slightly higher. From the side, you can see more of the tension screw than on the right side. Also on the left, the first rivet protrudes slightly.

The shop that sold it to me is across the country. They’re happy to take it back, but they said it doesn’t look wildly out of the ordinary. They said I could mount it and give it a try, but I doubt I’ll see or feel anything noticeable. I’m more concerned with the leather shifting more over time, especially if it causes that rivet to stick out even further.

Much ado about nothing, or send it back for an exchange?

Chat n’ Chew
Les Halles
City Bakery
Lucky Strike
‘wichcraft
Daffy’s
Republic
Blue Water Grille
Coffee Shop
Odessa
Kiev
Telepan
Lox Around the Clock
Barney’s
Otto Tootsi Plohound
Charivari
Nell’s

IYKYK

We have a 14 x 17 foot finished basement room in our rental townhouse that I am turning into a quasi home theater. The room is carpeted. It has an 8’ ceiling. The 17’ left wall has two fairly large square windows with aluminum blinds approximately halfway up the wall and a 1 foot deep ledge below the windows that runs the length of the wall. The right side wall has a wooden shelf filled with some books and decorative objects. At the end of the right side wall is the stair landing. The back wall has our 90” couch against it. The TV is on a low-ish stand opposite the couch, about 2’ away from the wall. We are not using additional speakers for now.

We are getting a very shrill echo from dialogue while watching TV. A slightly less piercing echo can also be heard with the TV off, while speaking at normal volume. A sneeze or a handclap produces the same ringing echo that the TV does.

Sidenote; we bought a 24 in.² cushion for our cat to lay on when he’s upstairs on the wood floors. But he has completely ignored it, because cat.

This morning I took the cat cushion, which is about 1.5” thick, downstairs and put it behind my head, resting it on the back edge of the couch and leaning against the wall. I shouted a couple of times with/without the cushion behind my head, and with it, the ringing echo pretty much disappeared. There was a vague, lower frequency echo that I don’t find offensive.

Being a rental home, I hesitate to drill or glue anything to the walls. I’m also definitely not a DIY guy. So I’ve been looking at buying a freestanding acoustic panel(s) that I could put behind the couch. A clean aesthetic is important to me, and this panel caught my eye. It’s basically metal tubing with a stretchy fabric cover. There’s just over an inch of empty space inside the panel once you stretch the fabric over it.

My thought was to have some sort of acoustic material custom cut to fit inside. I feel like it would have to be fairly rigid and reasonably lightweight, so as not to sag or cause the whole thing to tip over.

Given how effective the little square cat cushion was at reducing the echo, I was thinking that 3 of these panels in a row, which would be wide enough to sit neatly behind the 90 inch couch, and would cover roughly 37 vertical inches of wall, would solve the acoustic problem without damaging the wall or looking weird.

Can anyone weigh in on whether this might be effective with the right baffle material inside the panel, and if so, what might be my best options for the baffle?

TIL Samsonite branched off into toys in the 60s and 70s, including being the American manufacturer of Lego. They also made this baller toy, which would send a disembodied wheel across the floor of any room, guaranteed to torment your mom.

At our school in Ohio it was called the jackknife.

Apparently, there was one still around in Minnesota as late as 2015.

The idea was to run and jump onto the sheet metal and try to scramble to the top corner. Then you would sit up there and gloat for a little while till someone else came in and pulled you down or pushed you over the edge lol. I can only begin to imagine the number of injuries and lawsuits this contraption invited.