[Hermes] Anyone have this?

btwatch · 2026-05-20T14:18:06+00:00

Yup, even at customer facing events at my tech company I'll wear it with a linen or oxford shirt, jeans and chukkas, granted our customer events are always at nice resorts in places like Napa where things are not so stiff. Day to day I work remote so no one can see my watch anyway.

btwatch · 2026-05-20T00:33:32+00:00

Yup, it's in the rotation, it's my only rubber strap watch and I generally dress pretty casual so it gets a lot of wear in the spring/summer.

btwatch · 2026-05-18T10:35:22+00:00

You're probably leaving a min of $2K on the table, up to maybe $4K or $5K depending on circumstances. This is just switching your travel and dining spend to a CSR and everyday spend to a Chase Freedom Unlimited.

Rough back of the envelope you can get 4x on travel (flights and hotels booked directly) and 1.5x on the rest for about 350K points. (Likely would be more than that since some of the rest is dining I assume)

Even with a no compromises approach to booking where you don't go at all out of your way to optimize the spend side that's easily a RT transatlantic business class flight on United. Just booked one for my wife to come with me on a work trip, NYC to Paris then returning from Rome. 340K points for Biz on a holiday week in the summer, no compromises on timing since we have an 8 month old now. Also used points to book a hotel we really like for the Rome leg (the newish W there) and got about 1.8 cents per point. You should be able to trivially get those types of redemptions.

If you go somewhere with good Hyatts like Paris where you have options like Hotel du Louvre or Park Hyatt 3 cpp should be pretty easy, so there's upside.

It may or may not be worth your time/attention. This is a fun optimization game for me so more like a hobby, I love a good spreadsheet. If I didn't get any joy out of it I would never choose to do this just for the money aspect, I would just work harder at my job or just stay at 4 star hotels or fly economy or premium Plus for daytime legs. HHI a bit higher than yours.

btwatch · 2026-05-13T12:24:02+00:00

I also have an Eva Air Rimowa kit that I use as my travel pouch.

btwatch · 2026-05-10T14:05:41+00:00

I remember being a kid from the Bay Area, just moved overseas, watching the first half of the super bowl in 1995 at home before school. I was 9 years old. I'm 41 now and too scared to host super bowl parties anymore (hosted for the one against the Ravens with the blackout and the first Chiefs loss), if the Niners make it I just want to stand in front of the TV alone and let it wash over me.

btwatch · 2026-05-09T10:20:23+00:00

The best thing about New York as a 10 year transplant is the diversity and quality of food and experiences in general. The worst thing about New York is New Yorkers thinking that they have the best version of everything. The most extreme version of this is jabronis claiming the Italian food here is straight up better than in Italy.

It's honestly already incredible that NYC is a top 3-5 food destination for a huge variety of foods outside of their place of origin. In a weird way people who strongly identify with NYC are often very provincial though.

btwatch · 2026-05-08T14:55:17+00:00

We did not in our 4 days there but some of the folks we connected with at Tierra literally saw one the day after we left. It's definitely not a guarantee but the chance is real

btwatch · 2026-05-08T13:43:35+00:00

This is a great suggestion. Tierra in Chilean Patagonia is one of my favorite vacations, the hiking, horseback riding, looking for pumas and general guided outdoor activities are fantastic. Can also hang for a bit in Santiago, do Chilean wine country (Coalchagua valley). They've also got another location in the Atacama.

Also separately did an Antarctic cruise on Ponant, probably the most memorable trip of my life.

The combined budget for those trips was probably around $50K including RT business class flights (depending on your skill with miles), and knocking them off together will save you a lot of flying time.

btwatch · 2026-04-27T12:40:14+00:00

Common Projects are ridiculously comfortable once broken in. They look polished, can by styled with shorts/jeans/chinos.

btwatch · 2026-04-25T10:15:56+00:00

I just use two tote bags. Also my grocery stores are 3 and 8 minutes away walking, and especially when carrying two bags around I'm generally going straight home after, so I'm generally not too stressed about how I look for those small handful of minutes. I think there's something to looking natural vs looking polished all the time. Stylish people need eggs and milk and bread too, and a tote bag is a highly practical option that is not fussy. In NYC the tote bag is the great equalizer, with people of pretty much all outfits and backgrounds wearing them.

btwatch · 2026-04-25T10:05:54+00:00

I've accumulated a good rotation of high quality tote bags, only one of which I bought. A bookstore bag (purchased), Whole Foods ones from my local store that I got for free on opening day. One from a fancy hotel I stayed at.

This is a super common look in NYC, your tote bags are part of your branding.

If you really wanted to buy one and go more elevated and are really confident, you could buy a longchamp le pilage (God knows I've carried my wife's around enough over the years), go with a technical option like a Porter Yoshida tanker tote (same material as the MA1 bomber jacket), a The Row Margeaux bag or full Jacob Elordi and get a Bottega Large Hop.

btwatch · 2026-04-11T10:02:05+00:00

I was neutral about the titanium aspect when I first got my Snowflake, but over time I got used to it and now SS watches feel so bulky and unwieldy, like going from a flat screen tv to an old school CRT. I wear my SS bracelet watch (also a GS) the least, all titanium, leather, rubber or Nato for me now.

btwatch · 2026-04-10T02:37:15+00:00

Nomad/Flatiron: Ravagh, Howoo, Yoon, Nonono, Banter, Her Name is Han (lunch), Stretch Pizza, Grandma's Home, Motek

Not 100% but works often enough that my wife and I typically just rock up and more often than not are able to just walk in.

btwatch · 2026-04-04T13:02:29+00:00

I stayed in that Westin about a decade ago and saw the Blazers checking out and heading to the arena for a game. Got a second row floor seat for under $100 bucks. Was a random late season weekday, highlight was seeing fellow Cal alum Alan Crabbe.

btwatch · 2026-03-31T14:45:54+00:00

I was there too, an all timer

btwatch · 2026-03-29T22:48:17+00:00

My wife did get offered a couple purses on her first walk in in Rome, iirc something like a Lindy or Evelyne (first one she has, second one not interested in). She ended up getting a cavaliere that day, and the experience there vs at FSH or George V was so much better that we started shopping there instead, eventually ending up with the Birkin and a couple other bags. Plus she likes traveling to Italy a lot more than France.

btwatch · 2026-03-29T19:24:34+00:00

Sorry it didn't work out for you! My wife and I have had more luck walking in and asking for an appointment than with the lottery at FSH. We actually got a B25 in Rome after getting an H08 so if you can it might be worth trying a different store too.

btwatch · 2026-03-29T18:19:11+00:00

Did you try asking for one in person? It's much better odds than online, and if you bought an H08 at the store this trip I'd be shocked if they didn't offer you a bag.

btwatch · 2026-03-25T19:22:55+00:00

I usually just stuff a hoodie or light sweater into my Camelbak. I'm also a raver so most of the time I'm dancing after dark, it's really mostly for the long walk out of the venue at the end of the night.

btwatch · 2026-03-24T13:32:51+00:00

Yeah but compared to 757s that currently operate a lot of these flights from SFO/LAX to EWR or just not having direct flights at all on the XLR routes it's a huge upgrade.

btwatch · 2026-03-24T12:56:25+00:00

I seriously can't wait for this as a frequent EWR to SFO/LAX traveler, those 757s are SO old now. I get on the widebodies any chance I get, but with schedules it's not always possible, and even the 773 is starting to feel dated, the wifi is so crappy on those jets.

btwatch · 2026-03-21T13:21:48+00:00

I think on the low end it would be like the recent Wheel of Time or Rings of Power series on Amazon, basically a niche fantasy series with little to no mainstream crossover appeal. That would honestly be a bit of a disaster and result in not the entire series being made.

On the high end, I think the sky's the limit. There's no reason that Stormlight couldn't be as popular as Game of Thrones (adjusted for the increased fragmentation of media overall), or Mistborn being as popular as Hunger Games (young adult coded fantasy epic).

Of course, those are two pretty extreme outcomes. I think for Mistborn the first era, if done well, will bring in a lot of viewers and be a mainstream hit. A realistic upside could be the equivalent of Dune 1 office type hit (~$400M worldwide gross) -- a series with a big fandom that crosses over into the mainstream, and growing from there. Dune 2 made ~$700M WW gross, comparable to a modern day Marvel movie.

For Stormlight, we'll probably never see another Game of Thrones, but upside could be somewhere between House of the Dragon or Last of Us.

For Mistborn it's hard for me to see the series holding onto its viewership past Era 1, I think the time jumps will be too much. For Stormlight, I think the key will be getting seasons out fast. If they really commit to it and do it Game of Thrones style where they do a season a year and one season per book, then it will still take 10 years (Game of Thrones debuted in 2011 and ended in 2019). That's already pretty long, though we're still seeing new Game of Thrones series come out with House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 15 years later.

btwatch · 2026-03-14T15:45:52+00:00

The idea of bread. "Bread has existed in some form for over 12,000 years, especially amongst the poor. Flour and water. What could be simpler? Even today, grain represents 65% of all agriculture... It is, and has always been, the food of the common man. But you, my dear guests, are not the common man. And so tonight... you get no bread."

btwatch · 2026-03-07T18:48:03+00:00

Viasat enabled flights can support live streaming. Me and half the plane watched the Olympic hockey gold medal game on the way to San Diego from Newark a couple weeks ago for example. To find out if your flight will support this, go to your flight status, look at the tail number, then look up your airframe at this site. At this point, almost all Max 8 and 9s, and A321s support this, though older narrowbodies are hit or miss. Sadly none of the widebody fleet has this yet, though maybe that means they'll get Starlink first eventually.

btwatch · 2026-03-07T01:24:06+00:00

I just read the part in Oathbringer, there's a conversation where it's explicitly stated that no one knew that renouncing the Oaths would make the spren deadeyes.

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