NEW TURNSTILE
Interesting…
Redwood watches just released a new GMT model that looks beautiful. The price isn’t eye-wateringly high and I like the subtle details in the dial face—the numbers around the crown are perfectly imprecise, the ribs on the edges are just the right height, and the orange GMT hand is sharp. Plus, it’s got a date window. At 40mm it’s at the very top edge of sizing for my wrist, but it’s really pretty. The only thing I’d like to know is how thick it is; my solar Vaer diver is the tallest watch I own at 10mm and it verges on being annoying when it catches on my sleeves.
If the world was a normal place right now, I’d consider buying one of these.
I’ve had these tabs open in Safari for a while now, which is my cue to do something with them other than have them take up space in the menu bar. From the top:
- Vintage Truck Magazine does what it says in the title; they’ve got back issues available online for order, and they cover the gamut of brands and years and models. I don’t need more paper laying around the house, but I might buy an issue for $7 just to see how deep they go on some of the models I’m interested in.
- Choose Democracy has a list of actions you can do to fight the coup, starting with how to orient yourself and ending with reminders to take a breath and not try to do everything all at once.
- Because I haven’t finished this yet, this is a video on how to install a Holley Sniper EFI unit. I suspect my issues go deeper than the install—there’s still something not right with the engine itself. Further investigation is warranted.
- I’ve had two rolls of 120 film from the Yashica sitting on my desk waiting to be developed; I’m getting off my ass and sending these out to thedarkroom.com, who I’ve been using for years as my go-to large format development shop.
Twenty years ago, in the early days of the internet, a physics teacher with an interest in aviation history started building a list of U.S. aircraft serial numbers, matching them to the aircraft type, and researching the history and distribution of each individual plane. His list—and his name—became famous in the online aviation community as the go-to reference for what a plane was, where it was sent, and what happened to it. The list was always bare-bones: a tabbed HTML file with the barest of formatting, but he updated it frequently. I went looking for a serial number the other day and my decades-old bookmark led to a broken link; some further searching revealed Joe Baugher had passed away from cancer in 2023, and a new historian took over the list at a new URL.