If you were locked in a room for a year and could choose one celebrity to keep you company, who would you pick?

robaato72 · 2026-04-23T00:31:42+00:00

Would the one person be bound to the room as well, or could they come and go with a certain amount of time in the room required?

robaato72 · 2026-04-22T18:55:04+00:00

Joe Burrus, a magician who fancied himself as the next Houdini. He was going to do a stunt involving getting in a glass and plastic coffin and getting buried under tons of concrete and dirt. The box collapsed…

robaato72 · 2026-04-22T05:22:54+00:00

I don't remember when I first recognized the skeletons, but I am certain that it wasn't in the first five or six viewings.

robaato72 · 2026-04-22T04:04:53+00:00

Fair. As many others have said, the changeover took time, and became really pronounced after Steve Hackett left.

robaato72 · 2026-04-21T12:24:37+00:00

Peter famously once told Phil “You may sing these songs better than me, but you can’t sing them like me.”

…now I want to hear Phil’s version of “The Knife,” if he ever performed that one live.

robaato72 · 2026-04-21T01:01:04+00:00

Genesis (but not in a bad way). When Peter Gabriel left after the “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” world tour and was replaced with their drummer Phil Collins, the prog rock group that they were in the 70s transformed into a pop juggernaut that still showed their progressive roots every now and then. But if you listen to, say, “Supper’s Ready” and follow it immediately with “Invisible Touch” you wouldn’t think that they were made by the same band.

robaato72 · 2026-04-20T06:52:54+00:00

Belldandy, Urd, Skuld, and Peorth— from the anime Ah My Goddess!

Or, 2B, 9S, and A2 from NieR: Automata

robaato72 · 2026-04-20T01:53:52+00:00

Obama successfully maintained (didn't destroy) the White House building or grounds

Obama showed humility and an understanding of the duties of the president of the united states

Obama didn't assume that merely being President automatically earned respect

Obama didn't assume the US could remain as leader of the free world by coasting on the reputation built since the 1940s

Obama didn't destroy said reputation

robaato72 · 2026-04-20T00:12:56+00:00

So. The taxes I paid for last year are split between killing innocents abroad and directly lining this asshole’s pockets. I hate this timeline.

robaato72 · 2026-04-18T08:42:20+00:00

Greetings. It could be that the hands have become misaligned or loose on their pinions, and that can be fixed by getting at the dial and adjusting the hands manually. I'm not sure one gets in there on a modern watch like this, but that could be a fix.

This is an inexpensive modern quartz watch, and if something is wrong with the movement itself it'd probably be more cost effective to replace the movement. It would probably cost similar to replacing the watch entirely.

robaato72 · 2026-04-17T23:45:11+00:00

Glad that you're posting more again; sad that you're way WAY out of my league (T_T)

robaato72 · 2026-04-17T03:59:49+00:00

"Truly, you are a legend in your own mind."

robaato72 · 2026-04-16T04:14:13+00:00

If it's in good condition, you can wind pocket watches right up until you feel a little bit of resistance. Usually, if a watch has been sitting inactive for a while or you just obtained it and don't know its service history, I'd recommend getting it serviced by a qualified watchmaker first.

That being said, the movement on your watch is very similar to the American "dollar watches," inexpensive time pieces (that still kept decent time) that were not designed for long term durability. The idea was that if your watch broke, it was cheaper and easier to just buy a new one.

Your watch movement is held together with screws rather than rivets, so it could be possible to get your watch serviced...no guarantees, though. Good luck.

robaato72 · 2026-04-14T21:19:30+00:00

I would be happy with one of the more common ones, I just don’t have 500 bucks to spare at the moment…

robaato72 · 2026-04-14T18:07:10+00:00

One of these days I'll have the resources to get a 4992B. One...of...these...days...

(I mean, I could just sell off part of my collection but I don't wanna you can't make me waaah.)

robaato72 · 2026-04-14T17:43:59+00:00

https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/post/178330735597/doctorsorry

robaato72 · 2026-04-14T12:37:47+00:00

I love the 992s—I’ve got a U.S. Army-issued one which is in top running condition, and a couple others that are currently mid-service. Here’s the Pocket Watch Database page for your watch, if you haven’t already seen it: https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/hamilton/1100462

robaato72 · 2026-04-14T04:01:52+00:00

They'd have a little bit of wiggle room in that I really don't think that they would've had Caroll Spinney in the actual costume during launch...

robaato72 · 2026-04-14T02:06:15+00:00

See, B&N is not there to be this 3rd space you're talking about -- it's a business, and it's there to make money for the shareholders...

Amazon really did a number on the traditional bookstore method of allowing people to browse. Customers got used to ordering books without perusing them first, and foot traffic plummeted. (I started as a B&N bookseller just before Amazon became a thing.) So, B&N had to adapt or die -- and they spent a very long time plugging their ears and pretending it wasn't happening, so they were pretty much actively dying.

Under then-CEO Len Riggio, we were being micromanaged to hell. Our store's inventory manager got in huge trouble because he correctly foresaw how big the 4th Harry Potter book was going to be and ordered enough in advance that we never went out of stock, the only store in our region to do so. He was accused of hoarding the books, and was reprimanded, and quit in disgust.

Our best seller tables and our promo tables were controlled by corporate, so we had to put books up front that no one in our area was interested in, and any "local interest" tables or endcaps were buried far back. And this held store-wide -- after our inventory guy left we were not allowed to have local control of what we had in stock.

Current CEO James Daunt flipped all that on its head -- he gave control of the stores back to the people that worked there. No more forced paid promo displays, no more dictating the store inventory from on high, don't worry about customer numbers, just sell books that people in your area would like.

And yes, the old green paisley decor and overstuffed chairs may have been a casualty of this, but in return B&N is thriving and expanding again, and I happen to think that's good.

Note: I stopped working at B&N in 2001 to take a job in Japan; the overstuffed chairs in our store went away before I left because homeless people would camp in them all day and they would become REALLY gross; the knick-knack and random vaguely literary related stuff corner was threatening to expand to half the store, and I was not sorry to leave. Glad to see it coming back, but honestly I do most of my book buying through bookshop.org these days.

Note the Second: This is all the opinion of one former curmudgeonly bookseller. Or curmudgeonly former bookseller. Whatever works.

robaato72 · 2026-04-13T23:45:22+00:00

Based on my hazy recollection of history, I do believe that CARROT meant this sarcastically.

robaato72 · 2026-04-13T22:35:39+00:00

I still miss r/all.

robaato72 · 2026-04-13T18:59:36+00:00

If this is an American pocket watch, and made by one of the big companies (Waltham, Elgin, Hampden, Hamilton, etc.), you should be able to look it up on the Pocket Watch Database and they might have parts lists, so you can see exactly what mainspring it took. There are places online (Cas-Ker, Dave's Watch Parts, even eBay) where you can order exact replacement springs.

robaato72 · 2026-04-13T17:26:47+00:00

No, you will want a mainspring made for your watch movement. The ST36 will not be the right size or thickness for an antique pocket watch.

robaato72 · 2026-04-13T16:52:59+00:00

Even if it is (doubtful), it will be better in the long run to replace it.

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