Watch Review: Orient FFD0F004W
As a recent birthday present to myself, I picked up a shiny new watch from Orient Watch’s international line: the FFD0F004W, referred to as the Vintage by their US dealer. I have two other watches, a Seiko SKX173 diver that’s a little too casual for my current job, and a dressy Seiko 5 that’s appropriate, [...]
DIP-8 Footstool
This is pretty awesome: a footstool in DIP-8 format.
Perfect French-Pressed Coffee
Here’s my recipe for a perfect cup of coffee from a single-serving French press. I use darker roasts with my press, because you get a thick, rich cup of coffee from it. Place just enough coffee in the press to fill the space between the strainer when it’s pressed down and the bottom of the [...]
Pachyrhinosaurus!
Let me show you this awesome little ceratopsian toy: a pachyrhinosaurus made by Papo. This is the first of the handful of dinosaurs I’ve picked up recently. I don’t really think of myself as a collector, per se, but it’s totally reasonable to have two or three toy dinosaurs around. Sure, I have seven or [...]
Fantastic scherzo, Joseph Suk
Josef Suk’s Op.25, the Fantastic Scherzo — This is my favorite piece of music at the moment. It’s a solidly happy piece that Suk wrote not long before the death of his teacher Antonín Dvořák, and then his wife Otilie the next year. This is his Opus 25; his Opus 27 is the Asrael Symphony, [...]
Let there be krakens!
Aha! Sea monsters. The best.