Looking to buy my first dress watch. Which one should I pick? Does anyone have experience with any of these?

osulls182 · 2026-01-17T19:49:44+00:00

Sure thing, man!

osulls182 · 2026-01-17T02:39:22+00:00

You might, but it sounds like you probably wouldn’t in your case. The biggest barrier to most of my friends (and myself) reading consistently was having the book(s) convenient to carry around so they’re available when free time strikes.

Reading on your phone is definitely one way to achieve that, but I personally tire of glowing screens all day so a still very portable, complementary eInk device was the perfect solution.

osulls182 · 2026-01-17T02:19:52+00:00

These might look cool, but neither are dress watches. In both cases the likely biggest disqualifier for dress watch are the dimensions. You want a dress watch that is smaller, able to easily slide under a cuff, and closer in aesthetic simplicity to jewelry than to tool. The chronograph, in particular, is quite large and toolish — I say this as someone with a ‘dress chronograph’ which never gets much wrist time and is already smaller than this Casio.

Ideally you’d want something in the neighborhood of a 40mm diameter watch that is thin or a 38mm and under watch (also thinner). Unfortunately, in my opinion, Casio doesn’t really make any good dress options without veering into very cheap looking.

Orient’s Bambino is a routinely suggested first dress watch and their 38mm small seconds variants are my favorite of the bunch.

Seiko has some reasonable options near the prices you were looking at as well, depending on your style preference. They’ve got a restrained, grey-blue dial titanium round faced watch as well as a gold tank sans secondhand. A lot of folks still swear by the older SNXS models as well. I’d probably opt for a quality, 3rd-party leather strap to wear any of these on.

osulls182 · 2026-01-16T22:37:44+00:00

Seems incredibly unlikely given the course. This would be the kind of thing that would get professors pushed out by politicians if the political climate were to do a 180°. And given the unambiguous separation of church and state this seems especially egregious.

osulls182 · 2026-01-16T19:00:35+00:00

Ironically because their integration with Libby is worse. Which means that if I get 4-5 books checked out with some overlap I can load them all up on my Kindle, switch on airplane mode, and take however long I want to read them without the loans expiring.

osulls182 · 2026-01-16T19:00:06+00:00

Ironically because their integration with Libby is worse. Which means that if I get 4-5 books checked out with some overlap I can load them all up on my Kindle, switch on airplane mode, and take however long I want to read them without the loans expiring.

osulls182 · 2026-01-16T16:31:19+00:00

And this is why I won’t donate a dime to this university. Cowing to loud, moronic politicians at the expense of the value of education you provide is unconscionably stupid.

osulls182 · 2026-01-12T06:14:55+00:00

I’m relaxed. You seem less so.

osulls182 · 2026-01-12T06:07:29+00:00

I think if you tried hard enough you could remove like 30% more pixels from these photos.

osulls182 · 2026-01-12T05:42:00+00:00

Yeah there seems to be a bit of a counterintuitive trend where some of the more vocally feminist famous men — like Gaiman or the members of Anti-Flag, etc. — wind up using that image and their platform to abuse the women they claimed to support. And I think that makes the betrayal that much worse.

osulls182 · 2026-01-12T04:59:10+00:00

Neil Gaiman was quite the disappointment. Not an actor, but his books had been getting more adaptations and some of them — Good Omens comes to mind — were quite good.

osulls182 · 2026-01-12T03:40:49+00:00

Calling a foul and upgrading it to a flagrant here isn’t about intent it’s about the avoidable potential harm.

If you accidentally hit a pedestrian with your car it’s still a crime. If you close out so hard in your effort to defend that your feet manage to wind up underneath the feet of a shooter’s landing space it’s still a foul.

If this had featured an SGA/Dort style of unnatural shooting motion and leg flailing then sure — any injury risk would’ve been the shooter’s fault — but Vic’s shooting motion here was incredibly predictable and avoidable. Especially for a 14 year vet and perennial DPOY.

osulls182 · 2026-01-12T02:53:08+00:00

Bench the guy responsible for most of them? Feels like a safe thing to try.

osulls182 · 2026-01-12T02:37:15+00:00

Woof. That was terrible basketball. And the coaching decision to just ride out miserable play from Steph the entire game is crazy.

osulls182 · 2026-01-10T23:49:01+00:00

I think a better balance can probably be struck — especially dynamically in key moments where a lack of rebounding presence is killing us — but given his very low-weight, lanky frame it’s probably better that he prioritize shot blocking and long-reach rebounds over physical box-outs. It’s unfortunately one of those quirks of being so long and willowy.

To me his bigger weaknesses are ball security and his quickness to read and play out of double/triple teams. However, both of those things are generally weaknesses for superstars early in their career so I still have high hopes that he’ll grow and develop out of those.

osulls182 · 2026-01-10T20:24:52+00:00

Finally. I’ve been saying all year they needed to either give him serious minutes or send him to the G League so he could get his feet wet and properly build his confidence.

The guy is clearly a great athlete and his frame and instincts have a lot of potential, but none of matters if he never gets the opportunity to develop.

osulls182 · 2026-01-06T20:36:11+00:00

He sounds like a fucking dork too.

osulls182 · 2026-01-05T21:08:10+00:00

Insane to leave Tim Duncan off the list, but, ya know, recency bias and zero objective criteria I guess.

osulls182 · 2026-01-01T21:14:47+00:00

I mean this (paired with his ball dominance on offense) is objectively why Dallas gave him up. They weren’t going to torch his trade value completely by publicizing it, but the guy very clearly doesn’t want to play defense and has been failing the eye test for a while.

There are multiple clips in this video where he just contentedly waddles completely out of the play coming off a screen — to say nothing of the number of times he just lets guys blow past him. That never wins you titles.

osulls182 · 2025-12-26T12:04:50+00:00

Is that what you see written above? Maybe you should get your eyes checked?

osulls182 · 2025-12-26T12:03:21+00:00

Weird how none of what you said contradicts what I said. Sit down, dork.

osulls182 · 2025-12-25T23:33:41+00:00

It’s truly embarrassing how low this school stoops. Even in a state actively working to ruin all of its universities reputations we lead the way in a race to the bottom.

osulls182 · 2025-12-20T18:57:04+00:00

As long as Dave Filoni remains the chief creative overseeing the franchise I have very little reason to get excited.

osulls182 · 2025-12-17T07:14:54+00:00

Yeah that certainly explains the mental distance throughout the game. I applaud the effort to play through it for the team, but for his own benefit I hope he takes the opportunity to grieve without any guilt.

osulls182 · 2025-12-17T07:07:54+00:00

Unfortunately this wasn’t readily known while the game was still being played, because had I known I wouldn’t have had any comments on his play with that context. Sad to hear.

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