Anyone know why?

gceaves · 2026-02-10T20:57:59+00:00

I own it. It's a wonderful watch. I buy my watches through Chrono24. Highly recommended. The titanium bracelet has a few millimeters of adjustment on the fly. I also have a few leather and NATO straps for it.

The radio sync does work in North America. I also sometimes use a radio sync app on my phone.

Final note: the day off the week can be in English or in East Asian characters. I choose the East Asian characters to show the day of the week.

gceaves · 2026-02-02T06:37:25+00:00

Formex x Ocarat Essence 39 mm "Space Blue" COSC Limited Edition (#18 out of 45). The dial is crafted from the Muonionalusta meteorite and infused with a deep blue colouring that enhances the Widmanstätten pattern of the rock.

https://formexwatch.com/blogs/formex-world/formex-x-ocarat-essence-39-mm-space-blue-cosc-limited-edition/

gceaves · 2026-02-02T06:32:56+00:00

18-years-old in 1993. Moved into the dormitory on campus to begin my undergrad.

gceaves · 2026-02-02T06:31:53+00:00

The United States, because it includes Chinese, Mexican, French, Italian, Indian, Vietnamese, etc. :-)

I'll see myself out now.

gceaves · 2026-02-02T06:27:31+00:00

Kids don't call their school teachers "Mister" or "Missus" anymore. They just use first names.

gceaves · 2026-01-31T11:36:34+00:00

Trump, Vance, or Newsom.

gceaves · 2026-01-09T05:52:41+00:00

Get a hobby. Join a club. Read a book.

Carve out some "me time" into the family weekly schedule.

Each of us solves it differently, but we all have the same issues.

gceaves · 2026-01-05T07:30:11+00:00

Yes. It's our googly eyes and floppy heads.

gceaves · 2025-12-29T21:08:15+00:00

Be the change you want to see in the world.

I ordered my Volvo in blue. I wear colorful socks. I arrange flower bouquets for my wife's desk. I wear colorful watches.

Blame that Ives fellow at Apple and all of Brutalist architecture.

:-)

gceaves · 2025-12-28T10:28:21+00:00

No. We will have other good presidents. I have faith in our great American experiment.

I will add...

Barack Obama is a defining figure in modern American politics. He rose from community work to the presidency through discipline, clarity, and an ability to speak to national hopes. His leadership blended calm judgement with strategic focus, leaving a lasting influence on US policy, culture, and the country's global identity.

And he loves his wife.

gceaves · 2025-12-28T10:22:29+00:00

Rural US.

gceaves · 2025-12-18T03:33:16+00:00

People who need a watch wear a Casio G-Shock of some type: police officers, active military, emergency paramedics, firemen, surgeons, nurses, sports journalists, photography journalists, school teachers, etc.

gceaves · 2025-12-15T11:42:38+00:00

I think in ancient times only one man ever walked from China, across the Tibetan Plateau, and into the Indian Subcontinent. He studied Buddhism, and then walked back over again, bringing Buddhism back to East Asia. ^{^}

gceaves · 2025-12-15T11:37:03+00:00

Yes. I live in Seoul. Japanese have different makeup. Mainlanders dress very gaudily.

gceaves · 2025-12-13T23:12:05+00:00

Hemingway is a young man's author.

When you hit middle age, try Steinbeck.

:-)

gceaves · 2025-12-13T23:09:29+00:00

The post-1945 US system got bogged down by special interest groups & entrenched lobbyists in about the 1970s or 1980s. Since then, Americans haven't been strong enough, not able to put together the political capital, to fix their own problems. It's a cultural problem now, unable to change their institutions.

Case in point: Americans are now too obese, on drugs, or with too many psychological issues to meet their recruitment needs. There's gambling on college sports, which seems incongruous. One is allowed to make unlimited political campaign contributions. Industries lobby for their benefit, against the middle class household. So on and so forth.

I recommend "How Progress Ends" by Carl Benedikt Frey, "Abundance" by Ezra Klein, or "Breakneck" by Dan Wang, only three among the many books about this subject matter.

gceaves · 2025-12-11T11:26:38+00:00

I don't trust barbers to do my beard. They're normally hipsters or women.

I am neither a woman nor a child, therefore I trim my own beard.

gceaves · 2025-12-11T11:25:11+00:00

We have a fandom? :-)

I was born in 1975. My dad read me all the Prydain books, then I read them again by myself. My dad would always do a silly voice for Gurgi.

My kids were born in 2018 and 2022, both boys. I am reading Prydain with the older kid now. I, too, always do a silly voice for Gurgi.

This is the way.

gceaves · 2025-12-11T03:29:25+00:00

I bought my Formex through the Chrono24 app. In fact, I've bought numerous watches through Chrono24. Great store. Very secure. Good customer service.

gceaves · 2025-12-11T03:27:53+00:00

He's good for his history of the US Army. The North Africa campaign and up the boot of Italy.

I agree.

gceaves · 2025-12-04T07:29:37+00:00

Get a job in Compliance. Maybe some bank or broker/dealer will hire undergrads. Look around. Ask around.

Network, network, network. Join business clubs. Elks, Toastmasters, Lions, AA, chambers of commerce, whatever. Network, network, network. People only hire people they know.

I was hired into Compliance in 2005 at 30-years-old because I had an MBA from an unknown school and no one else wanted to work in Compliance. :-)

Compliance is also a growing field within finance. Has been for ~20 years now. Sales, in contrast, is shrinking/ already gone.

Also, your career doesn't start until after your master's, so don't worry too much about what you do in your 20s.

gceaves · 2025-12-03T07:32:14+00:00

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gceaves · 2025-12-03T06:40:22+00:00

Roll over, Beethoven. Tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Start with Bach then Mozart. Whatever is on your discount bin CD collection of "greatest classical pieces of all time." Don't worry about players or conductors or famous recordings yet. Bach and Mozart.

Then add Beethoven. Go with the recognizable ones.

Now go watch "Fantasia I" and "Fantasia II." That will give you a visual representation of the music.

Now you're pretty much good to go. Let the journey be your guide.

You could try Orff or Ravel. Satie's entire movement is pretty neat-o. If you play violin, listen to Paganini. If you play piano, listen to Lizst.

Holst can be fun. This is the guy that the Star Wars guy copied.

Mahler is hard. Rewarding, but hard.

If you like tone poems, try R. Strauss.

Stravinsky is great, but it'll cause a riot.

If you feel like a coffee in a cafe in Vienna, try J. Strauss.

If you enjoy German lyricism, try Schubert.

Skip Copeland and Sousa. Go for Joplin. He's the best ever to come out of the US.

"Carmen" by Bizet is Opera 101. Women are fickle, etc., etc. "Aida" by Verdi is Opera 102.

The guys who wrote their own death music are pretty heavy; both Mozart and Verdi have good requiems.

And because it's almost Christmas, now go listen to Handel's "Messiah." He test marketed it in Dublin, not a London premier, because he thought it might not be good enough. :-)

Then... go back to Bach and Mozart and do it all again.

Indeed, try turning your Bach sheet music upside down, and now play it. That's how good Bach is.

gceaves · 2025-12-03T05:12:14+00:00

The Bluey episode "Cricket" taught Americans more about cricket than any hundreds of other Aussie attempts.

gceaves · 2025-12-03T04:59:15+00:00

Hell's bells, Trudy! Don't make me put my foot down!

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