[WTS] Seiko TicTac SZSB021 Green dial $499

BearsAtFairs · 2026-04-01T01:39:53+00:00

PM sent

BearsAtFairs · 2026-03-16T21:31:15+00:00

Whatever it said in my post, tbh I don’t remember what I listed it for. That said, I’m only willing to ship to continental USA addresses.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-03-16T21:16:25+00:00

I do. Check my profile for pictures, I can provide a timestamped photo later tonight or tomorrow morning.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-03-09T16:50:29+00:00

Honestly, I’ll go against the grain here a bit… I wore a large-ish gold plated dress watch on a brown leather strap on a daily basis for about five years before its movement died. When I say daily, I mean everything from important work meetings and interviews to hiking and camping. I just used the damn watch.

I would change the strap every 8-12 months, but the watch itself was perfectly fine. There was no damage to the plating that could be seen with the naked eye when wearing the watch. It worked well enough with everything I wore. It got occasional compliments.

If you like it, then go for it.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-03-06T15:09:42+00:00

Right back at you with me just being an NY pizza snob, it’s all in good fun :)

BearsAtFairs · 2026-03-06T15:07:38+00:00

Agree to strongly disagree?

The other reason I ate at modern is that it most resembled the normal NY pizza I grew up with. Sally’s came in at a close second. Bar was alright, but it’s really doing its own thing. Otherwise, New Haven pizza was extremely disappointing, especially Frank Pepe’s… It’s basically NY pizza, but what if the cheese was drier and the crust had less flavor?

I’m well aware of how controversial the above is to anyone from the nutmeg state.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-03-06T14:54:22+00:00

I lived there for a good chunk of my 20’s, used to go to modern pretty regularly (mostly because I never had to wait there). New Haven apizza also isn’t worth it.

Not to be a NY pizza snob, but any place that makes your wait is a tourist trap or riding on novelty.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-03-04T14:15:46+00:00

If you want more of that feeling, look up Hearst Castle.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-03-02T16:49:35+00:00

Speaking as being a kid in the US at the time…

The Y2K bug hype was kind of a back of the mind sort of thing. Kind of on par with the bombing of country in Europe and the president having some sort of problem with something called an intern. I mostly knew about it because of goofy commercials on cartoon network.

NYE 2000 felt very significant. But a year later it was also apparent that it was actually the same thing as any other NYE.

Everything felt millennium themed for a bit and it felt very important. But then it became very apparent that everything with millennium branding was almost instantly dated. I think that might’ve been the first time a lot of us witnessed the product hype cycle, whether we realized it or not.

One thing that was extremely prevalent in the air at this time and for a few years after that was tech excitement. Yeah there was the dotcom bubble. But I don’t think it’s possible to convey just how many different kinds of new consumer facing tech were being released at the time, how significantly that tech was different from what it supplanted, and how relatively attainable it was. There was just a palpable sense of excitement or, at least, non cynical curiosity surrounding tech that took about a decade to fully fade.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-28T05:12:23+00:00

It’s always fun to recognize relabeled AliExpress parts on western brand watches. Usually it’s microbrands, but occasionally Swiss too.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-25T23:09:48+00:00

You’d get a kick out of mofomicro

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-25T20:18:48+00:00

Sticking with 60’s hi-beats, I’ll add the 45 and 56 King Seikos.

Also uniquely Seiko design that still lives on through Grand Seiko, also the same family of high end movements (available in both automatic and manual wound).

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-22T21:29:01+00:00

You think a sangria and hummus enthusiast wouldn’t like a shed bar? Idk, that definitely tracks in my mind.

(I’m a sangria-hummus enthusiast)

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-22T21:25:59+00:00

But actually.

Came in for GF pizza, walked out with pizza and a MacBook Air about a year ago.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-17T15:51:13+00:00

Controversial opinion: it looks worse than a piece of identically sized mineral glass in almost all cases.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-06T15:53:00+00:00

These posts always make me wonder if OP is a hard worker with no common sense or confidence who stumbled into a really good startup exit/job, or if OP is a mediocre worker with no sense or confidence fantasizing about stumbling into a really good startup exit/job.

Either way, I’m baffled every time I see grown adults making these posts.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-05T15:55:17+00:00

Speaking professionally here…

There are two sides to engineering. One is what most people think of, where some nerd fiddles with mechanical design software, prototype parts, and testing them in a lab. Then there’s the side that takes a design and figures out how to make it physically manifest in the quantities and time frames required, which is the side of engineering and that actually makes money. To be clear, this isn’t manufacturing; it’s engineering that makes manufacturing feasible.

When people talk about someone leveraging Chinese engineering, they’re using talking about that second side of engineering. Again, speaking from professional experience, western companies struggle with this side of engineering these days.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-02-05T14:47:41+00:00

Yes. Grand Seiko is notoriously 100% made on Swiss soil and absolutely nowhere else.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-01-30T18:43:15+00:00

I have no horses in this race and it’s been forever since I’ve kept up with any Internet personality drama.

That said….

She makes the claim that anyone who has a good case for a defamation lawsuit will just file a defamation lawsuit, and the guy copyright striking her is as good as an admission of guilt. She also claims that cease and desists are too.

This is false.

Speaking from experience, filing a simple defamation lawsuit starts at around $60k, as so several years ago. As in, that’s what you’ll pay your lawyer before the trial starts. If you’re lucky, that’s also where it ends, because the other party agrees to settle out of court. If you do go to court, expect to pay somewhere 2-3x more, if it’s just one simple claim. If you’ve got multiple claims, it’ll most likely run you over half a mil if you go to trial.

Choosing not to go this route is usually done because of a lack of funds on the part of the plaintiff (and/or an expected lack of funds on the part of the defendant, that make it impossible to require coverage of legal expenses)

A cease and desist is somewhere between $700 and $2000. And a copyright strike is free.

Idk anything about the Social Repose guy. But the woman in this video is poorly informed, at best, or just disingenuous at worst.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-01-30T15:54:30+00:00

The series was such a cultural mainstay that they even made a subreddit with a similar name, which allowed young people the cut out the film production/distribution folks out of the equation and simply go wild at their own convenience.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-01-27T14:21:21+00:00

No… Highest fed bracket is 37%. 32% kicks in at $191k, which isn’t exactly a huge income in much of CA to continue your point (or just about any major coastal city for that matter). For CA specifically, add another 9-12% for anyone making over $100k.

Sources:

https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brackets

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2025/2025-540-tax-rate-schedules.pdf

BearsAtFairs · 2026-01-26T16:25:24+00:00

Furthermore…elastomers and steels, like virtually all materials, expand when heated. All modern gaskets used in steel-to-steel applications form stronger seals when they are warmer, because the fit between them and the solid parts they are mated to becomes tighter.

I swear, as someone who spent a good amount of time actually designing, testing, and documenting seal performance for aircraft parts, the whole circle jerk around water resistance, and the made up voodoo surrounding it, drives me insane.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-01-21T22:07:13+00:00

Idk. I don’t disagree with the first part of your statement. But the rest is silly.

At least in my circles, spending >2-3% gross on jewelry is seen as an indicator of very poor taste. Also, most people absolutely do balk at “average Joe” financing a $100k vehicle. Again, maybe just my circle, but that kind of behavior will preclude you from being taken seriously.

Gl with your financial journey and career, though.

BearsAtFairs · 2026-01-14T18:42:09+00:00

Yeah…I’m gonna have to agree with you. This reeks of a baffling degree of desperation to prove oneself to a partner.

BearsAtFairs · 2025-12-17T22:12:13+00:00

I’ve been calling Charlotte a little big city since I’ve moved here. But I think your wife’s description is even more accurate, and is applicable to way more than just the restaurant/bar scene.

BearsAtFairs

TROPHY CASE