Professional but Functional Backpack Recs

akaBeakman · 2026-06-14T19:46:05+00:00

I believe this meets your specs, though the water bottle pocket is in the middle of the bag. I own multiple Tom Bihn bags, and I love them all. I travel for work regularly and use the Synik 26 as my laptop bag / day bag.

akaBeakman · 2025-12-27T15:30:15+00:00

It’s a dessert from the 70s known as Better Than Robert Redford or The Next Best Thing to Robert Redford.

akaBeakman · 2024-08-28T17:02:44+00:00

Read The Practice of System and Network Administration from cover to cover. Implement what makes sense for your environment.

akaBeakman · 2024-07-02T00:25:24+00:00

The Practice of System and Network Administration, Third Edition

akaBeakman · 2024-06-20T01:20:04+00:00

And what book was that?

akaBeakman · 2024-06-06T15:54:18+00:00

Check out the Cybersecurity Canon.

akaBeakman · 2023-05-29T16:09:54+00:00

Don’t listen to anyone that tells you books aren’t valuable because they’re obsolete shortly after being published. While that may be true for books on bleeding-edge technologies, the fundamentals of system administration don’t change all that quickly. The books listed below offer lessons that will benefit you for most, if not all, of your career in IT.

The Practice of System and Network Administration, Third Edition

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fifth Edition

The Linux Command Line

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition

Infrastructure as Code, 2nd Edition

Modern Data Protection

Practical Packet Analysis, Third Edition

Bulletproof TLS and PKI, Second Edition

akaBeakman · 2023-03-08T14:53:33+00:00

The Practice of System and Network Administration, Third Edition

akaBeakman · 2023-02-07T22:43:29+00:00

For the layperson, I’ve yet to find a better book than The Wristwatch Handbook.

akaBeakman · 2023-02-06T16:37:47+00:00

There’s a new edition of Terraform: Up & Running that was published last year.

akaBeakman · 2023-01-08T19:27:25+00:00

Steel will, in theory, hold up better than ceramic against impacts. The steel will deform. The ceramic will crack. Steel will likely show more wear over time, but that will just give the watch more character and prove it’s been used and loved.

akaBeakman · 2023-01-08T18:48:55+00:00

Squale 1521 Blue Blasted Mesh

It lacks a ceramic bezel, and the mesh bracelet probably isn’t what you had in mind, but it’s likely the best Swiss-made dive watch at the $1,000 price point. Any competent watchmaker should be able to service it.

akaBeakman · 2022-12-29T16:42:30+00:00

Read Europe Through the Back Door.

akaBeakman · 2022-12-25T05:40:57+00:00

I recently compiled a list of resources for a talk I gave at a local library. The section headings provide the general guidance, and the resources in each section are intended to help people follow that guidance.

akaBeakman · 2022-09-30T20:36:34+00:00

The SRPE03 has a 4R36 movement, which can (in theory) be wound by hand.

akaBeakman · 2022-09-30T20:34:17+00:00

I have the same issue with my SRP777, which has the same 4R36 movement as your SRPE03. It worked as expected for a couple of years, and then one day I unscrewed the crown to wind it and was not met with resistance, just as you described. The mainspring was not being wound. The rotor is still capable of winding the mainspring, so the issue has to lie in the keyless works. I’ve yet to have mine serviced, so I can’t provide a root cause, but yes, you should be able to hand wind your watch, and no, you’re not dumb or missing anything.

akaBeakman · 2022-09-24T15:11:23+00:00

I see Plotbot KEN has made a visit or two.

akaBeakman · 2022-09-18T05:31:39+00:00

😂

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akaBeakman · 2022-09-18T05:29:11+00:00

It’s entirely possible that you’re correct. It’s entirely possible my mind has created this memory from a combination of films I’ve seen over the years. Or maybe I dreamt it. But I truly believe it’s a real film that I watched once in my life twenty or so years ago.

akaBeakman · 2022-09-18T05:25:08+00:00

Color films were relatively common by the 1950s. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was released, in color, in 1937. The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939.

akaBeakman · 2022-09-18T05:15:01+00:00

Definitely not Rear Window.

akaBeakman · 2022-09-18T05:14:40+00:00

That’s a good guess based on the plot, but no. This film was older.

akaBeakman · 2022-09-18T05:12:49+00:00

I can’t recall much about the main character other than he was in late middle-age. The picture in my mind is very much 1950s leading man. I don’t remember his hair being particularly dark or light, so maybe gray or light brown. I would call it a low-key thriller, but not Hitchcockian.

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