Recent content by Alistair

I am a self-taught hunter from an urban background, which is probably why I suck at it! None of my family are into hunting or shooting really, but my father was willing to indulge my interest by buying me a couple air rifles from age 10 and letting me shoot in the back garden. After that, I...

I think it depends on the level you are at in your career when you start. I did my MBA when I was lower middle management. I knew a lot about supply chain and product development, but not a whole lot on anything else. The modules on those topics were tick box exercises, but I got quite a lot...

I generally agree with your point, but with a caveat. Having people properly educated in useful subjects are one of the biggest assets a country can have. Hard science, engineering, medicine, law, finance, computer science, math. All create enormous value and go a long way to securing the us...

Lol. Someone has spent too long in the darker recesses of the internet...

The Seiko 5's are easy enough to adjust if you want more accuracy. You'll need something to pull the case back, but Youtube has tutorials and they're cheap enough that it's no great heartbreak if you cock it up. Plus there's no water resistance to speak of, so no worries about that either. The...

For whatever it's worth, my views are as follows. At this juncture, I am resigned to the fact that no matter what, the next 4 and a bit years will be a complete shit show. Either we have Biden continuing to utterly and completely run the country into the ground as he has in this term, or we...

Not my industry, sadly. All stupid American Standard units, at least for the US sites. At least the Canada facilities are metric. An absolute nightmare to deal with when trying to scale recipes, or move stuff between sites, or work out tank volume to number of packages, or do engineering...

Land Rover huh? Yikes, I'm sorry for your loss.

That seems like a very reasonable 'experience' to justify a watch purchase to me. Graduated college, first big boy job, that's a big milestone. I've bought watches for both of those reasons and I'm sure I'm not alone. Perhaps not a cool story, but important to them, which is really all that...

There are no new battery operated Omega's these days. All Omega specific mechanical movements. They did make a few entry level quartz models in the 90's though. I'd agree that Rolex is more flashy, or at least more recognizable for the most part.

My take as a Rolex and Omega owner. Omega makes watches that are at least as good as Rolex, if not marginally better. Similar quality of construction, similar if not better movements, similar if not better accuracy, equivalently good case design (excepting maybe the Submariner which is arguably...

My experience is that Rolex don't even want you then, unless you're likely to be spending millions or can be a 'brand ambassador' for them (whatever that means). I played their silly games for my Milgauss. Went to the store, looked at the piece, said I'd take it. "Oh no, that's the show...

Yup, pretty much how they do business. Artificially limited supply, stupid hoops to jump through during the purchase experience, requests that you buy cheaper / less popular models if you want a specific piece, stupid wait lists and an absolute refusal to even put you down on the list half the...

Polymerization, evaporation of lighter hydrocarbons, water absorption (especially in ethanol blends like you see at most US gas stations). Maybe you can get longer than a year if you have a sealed container with a stabilizer, but crack it open and the clock is ticking. In practicality, 1 year...

The points above are worth considering. No fuel station in America will function if the power grid is out. No fuel station will work if its electronics are fried. If they do work, well, the gasoline is delivered to them by tanker trucks. They won't work either. Neither will refineries... Your...