Some notes on a watch which I’m renovating Text on dial: Eklora - Incabloc - Swiss Made Text on case back: Swiss Made - Waterprotected - Incabloc - Stainless Steel Back Data Measurements are done by me, and might not be the official numbers. Width: ? Length: ? Height: ? Lug-to-lug: ? Movement: FHF 974 Date complication Case: Stainless steel Crystal: Acrylic Problems Crystal has cracked Only runs when winding, stops shortly afterward, even when fully wound Rusty date wheel Troubleshooting Rust Opened up and cleaned all parts. Some screws have rusted off, but all parts seem to work I lost the date spring somewhere Rust is limited to the date complication. Other areas untouched. Only runs when winding During deconstruction, the mainspring was stuck to the barrel bridge. Barrel arbor very rusty. Cleaned and oiled, but is still not working as it should. After reconstruction, the mainspring gets charged, but will not apply the power to the train of wheels. It’s possible to unwind the mainspring. Possibly problem with the pivot on the other side of the mainspring getting stuck? Media

Some notes on a watch I have been given, which I’m trying to identify. Text on dial: Javil - 21 Jewels - Incabloc - Antimagnetic - Waterprotected - Swiss made Text on case back: Stainless steel back - Waterproof Antimagnetic - Incabloc swiss made - 4852 - 71 Data Measurements are done by me, and might not be the official numbers. Width: 33mm Length: 42mm Lug-to-lug: 18mm Movement: Likely AS 1188. See image below and compare. It’s very similar to AS 1188 Note that it has 21 jewels, but in the image below you can see that it has jewels jammed into useless locations. Case seems to be made of nickle plated brass Crystal: Acrylic Notes A local watchmaker said they would need to open it up to give a service cost estimate (which would cost 300 SEK), but to expect the service cost to be 3500 SEK or more. Media

I was given a watch by my father-in-law, and created this page to document all I could find about it. Because of the numbers on the dial I was able to find the full information about the watch. Text on Dial Timex - Water Resistant - Taiwan - 2615102477 Data Measurements are done by me, and might not be the official numbers. See e.g. Width. Model: 2615102477 Width: 34mm (35mm according to most online listings) Length: 36mm Lug-to-lug: 18mm Movement: Calibre M24 (According to forum posts) Pin-lever escapement Crystal: Acrylic Year of manifacture: 1977 (Since all search results seem to have 1977 in its name, I guess it was only made that year) Media Images from Bålsta Auktionshall ...

I created this page when trying to identify a watch I was given by my father-in-law. After finding multiple pages refering to it as the 441267, I will treat it as solved. Text on dial Wostok - 18 jewels - Made in USSR Note: Since it’s named Wostok instead of ‘Boctok’, it’s made for export and not the internal market. Fully russian versions of the same model also exist. Some quick googling told me that Wostoks changed the export name to Vostok in the 90s. ...

Re John Updike’s Toward the End of Time Maybe the one thing that the reader ends up appreciating about Ben Turnbull is that he’s such a broad caricature of an Updike protagonist that he helps clarify what’s been so unpleasant and frustrating about this author’s recent characters. It’s not that Turnbull is stupid: he can quote Pascal and Kierkegaard on angst, discourse on the death of Schubert, distinguish between a sinistrorse and a dextrorse Polygonum vine, etc. It’s that he persists in the bizarre, adolescent belief that getting to have sex with whomever one wants whenever one wants to is a cure for human despair. And Toward the End of Time’s author, so far as I can figure out, believes it too. Updike makes it plain that he views the narrator’s final impotence as catastrophic, as the ultimate symbol of death itself, and he clearly wants us to mourn it as much as Turnbull does. I am not shocked or offended by this attitude; I mostly just don’t get it. Rampant or flaccid, Ben Turnbull’s unhappiness is obvious right from the novel’s first page. It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he’s so unhappy is that he’s an asshole. ...

Curated list of interesting talks / lessons Psychology Jonathan Blow - Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation, malaise, depression Lists Conf42: Cloud Native 2021 Logging Making Logs Work for you with Fluentd Caching Architectural Caching Patterns (for Kubernetes) - Good caching primer Docker Images Securing Containers by Breaking In - Good image security primer

These following pages seem to be missing from all 30th anniversary edition of Tigana. I have two copies of the book and both have the same missing pages. Since I had to go through the effort to source the missing text for myself, I thought I might as well put it up online. Hopefully it helps someone Page 190 If she was to travel north into Corte soon, and clearly marked by now as being from Certando, she needed to have been associated with The Queen, but not so very prominently. Prominent people had questions asked about them, that much she knew. So she feigned an attack of country girl anxiety the night Arduini made his offer. She broke two glasses and dropped a platter. Then she spilled Senzian green wine on the Governor himself. Tearfully she went to Arduini and begged for more time to grow sure of herself. He agreed. It helped that he was in love with her by then. He invited her, gracefully, to become his mistress. In this, too, she demurred, pleading the inevitable tension that such a liaison would elicit within the staff, badly damaging The Queen. It was the right argument; his establishment was Arduini’s true mistress. In fact, Dianora had resolved to let no man touch her now. She was in Ygrathen territory and she had a purpose. The rules had changed. She had tentatively decided to leave in the fall, north towards Corte. She had been weighing possibilities and excuses for doing so when events had overtaken her so spectacularly. Slowly circling the Audience Chamber, Dianora paused to greet Doarde’s wife whom she liked. The poet seized the opportunity to present his daughter. The girl blushed, but dipped her head, hands pressed together, in a creditable manner. Dianora smiled at her and moved on. A steward caught up to her, bearing khav in a black chalice set with red gemstones. A gift, years ago, from Brandin. It was her trademark on occasions such as this: she never drank anything stronger than khav at public receptions. With a guilty glance towards the doorway where she knew Scelto would be stationed against the wall, she took a grateful sip of the hot drink. Praise the Triad and the growers of Tregea, it was dark and rich and very strong. “My dear lady Dianora, you are looking more magnificent than ever.” She turned, smoothly suppressing an expression of distaste. ...

A list of Switch games I might buy in the future Katana Zero Hyper Light Drifter Astral Chain

Recently, I had to do some stuff on an ESXI-machine from a Linux machine. However the ESXI-version was so old that you needed the vSphere Client to modify it, and I never really got that working. Luckily you can do quite much through ssh. So I thought I’d write down the commands I still remember. ## Write this to get all available commands vim-cmd ## Virtual Machine commands vim-cmd vmsvc ## Show VMs with some stats vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms ## Show power status of VM vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate <vmid> ## Power on a VM vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on <vmid>

What I expected When running Krita in Windows on a Lenovo C940 laptop I should be able to use the built-in pen to get pressure sensitivity. E.g. when using a pen which becomes larger the more you press. What I got The pressure sensitivity is non-functional but strange. On a normal document, when doing quick swipes with a pressure sensitive pen, there is a thin line and many large circles which appear haphazardly. Selecting just a single point of the screen and pressing seems to maybe work. But when the pen is moved, the large cicles appear immediately. Also, when in the scratchpad, everything works perfectly. ...