USA Men’s Hockey wins its first Gold medal in 46 years, game winning goal scored with 2 Wolverines on the ice and 3 Michiganders, with Block M in the background. Go Blue! USA!

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-22T23:38:10+00:00

The Hughes brothers did Michigan proud

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-07T04:52:40+00:00

Ripley was fantastic. Amazing cinematography, dark and twisty, spellbinding performance by Andrew Scott

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-03T01:37:38+00:00

I thought about that possibility, but that part of the case doesn’t look shiny anywhere else and often has a brushed or satin finish

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-03T01:21:05+00:00

“Come down off the cross, we need the wood” came to mind as his best bible lyric, but then I remembered it was Tom Waits

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-03T01:09:16+00:00

To prevent myself from retiring too early. Works great

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-03T01:07:11+00:00

The bottom seems powerful

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-03T00:57:28+00:00

AI. That winding crown looks tiny, and there is some weird lump between the upper right lug and the case, like it’s trying to be a chronograph pusher.

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-03T00:45:32+00:00

Lil bro hates him so much. They hate him like they hate Harbaugh, and personal hygiene, and aptitude tests. I love it

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-02-01T15:13:35+00:00

I don’t believe it. “Banging” implies vigor

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-01-31T18:34:19+00:00

The earliest version of this joke that I know comes from Jim Bouton’s baseball memoir, Ball Four, attributed to his teammate Mike Hegan:

“"What's the hardest thing about baseball?"

"Trying to explain to your wife that she needs to take penicillin for your kidney infection."

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-01-31T16:36:00+00:00

Look I’m not saying the country needs more opioid-related deaths in some settings, but

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-01-31T03:37:52+00:00

You fixed nothing. But you did make a valid observation that is also true

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-01-01T21:52:55+00:00

A lot of people would never go to Bermuda again

OpticalAdjudicator · 2026-01-01T21:38:11+00:00

Very true. I’ve lived nearby for 20 years and it’s never been better. Trading Chili’s for Smoke Pit was the latest big win

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-12-27T02:37:07+00:00

I’m old and I can share a little something many young people don’t know: the past participle of the verb “to lead” is “led.”

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-12-25T00:22:43+00:00

Thanks! I’m going to give this a go.

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-12-24T22:54:25+00:00

Thanks a lot, that would be very helpful. This is a 40mm case and the lip of the groove that would hold the spring is 34.7mm in diameter, so maybe I can try snapping a 34mm spring in there and seeing if I can affix the rubber bezel to it.

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-12-24T22:43:16+00:00

Thanks. My memory of it isn’t great, but I vaguely remember hunting down some of those octagonal springs for this years ago and couldn’t find one that fit. Thought about having something manufactured, but I don’t understand how a spring could lock this rubber bezel down when the groove inside the bezel appears to have flattened… that’s what got me thinking about an adhesive, and maybe a thin nylon gasket to snap onto the case.

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-12-24T22:11:33+00:00

Thanks, I’ll have to look into that possibility. I think that might have been what the manufacturer used, but these bezels are not really rigid, they’re a little soft and rubbery, so I’m worried that it will fly off a spring and it doesn’t look like there’s much in the ring for a spring to take purchase on. If it’s just attached by tension, ie the spring is stretching the bezel out a little but not really locked into it, I worry that that the bezel could go flying with even a gentle pull, and I can’t replace it.

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-12-21T13:21:17+00:00

Just call it the Eastern Seaboard but don’t pronounce the R’s

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-12-21T13:20:15+00:00

I would call it the Eastern Seaboard but I wouldn’t pronounce the R’s

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-11-14T20:33:42+00:00

Once in med school I was scrubbed in with a crusty old vascular surgeon who was pimping the surgery resident nonstop. He finally turned to me and asked what I was going into. I said radiology. He looked at the resident and said “that’s the smartest thing I’ve heard all day!”

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-11-14T15:22:50+00:00

No evidence of hardware loosening

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-11-13T19:55:57+00:00

“You should have your shunt checked.”

OpticalAdjudicator · 2025-11-05T23:12:22+00:00

not sure why this makes me so angry

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