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Nanuq

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  1. Some come home... And some do not.
  2. Okay, I'm revealing one of two things here, either my curiosity or my paranoia. Take yer pick. It seems like there are suddenly lots of "unobtainable" tropic crystals on Ebay. Tropic 19 Superdomes, 39 Superdomes, and my beloved which I won't name. I know James is developing Superdome tropic 39 rep crystals, and I've held them in my hands... the only way to see a difference from genuine is to hold them both at the same time and examine their optical properties... there is a small difference. You won't see it unless you've got them side by side. So knowing 39s are out there, how much of a leap is it to think there could be rep Superdome 19s too? It would be nothing for a company to produce replica waxed paper envelopes to match. Think about that for a moment. Now the rub: I like Bolle Piraja sunglasses. When I wear them I see all kinds of rainbow artifacts on reflective surfaces. I noticed that viewing my vintage domed watch crystals with the Bolles, I see rainbows, much like a stress pattern from an interferometer. This happens on my Gigandet and LeJour gens. HOWEVER when I look at the Superdome tropic 39s I just bought, they don't do the rainbow patterns. But they DID come in waxed envelopes, from a reputable chap. So....... what causes these "interference patterns" I see, and are they only going to exist in truly vintage crystals, from the manufacturing processes used back then? If so, that would be a good way to validate a "gen" vintage tropic crystal. Who here has a Superdome of any reference number that they KNOW is a genuine, as in it came directly from Rolex? If you've got one, can I ask you to look at it in bright sunlight with a pair of Bolles and tell us what you see?
  3. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Call me suspicious, but how come all of a sudden there are "genuine Superdome Tropic 39" crystals all over Ebay? These things are rare as an honest politician. Can these be the results of someone making really good rep crystals? I see waxed paper envelopes too... would these things be out there and we wouldn't know about it here? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..... ??
  4. Greetings gents, There's a guy selling domed tropic 19s on Ebay right now, and one other holy grail crystal... he's selling a tropic 17. I've been looking for one of these for my 6536 forever, and am the high bidder. I'd ask you to please reconsider before bidding against me, my name there is "Oomingmaq" and I'd sure love to win this piece. If you do bid and ultimately win it, please keep me in mind down the road if you decide to sell it. Cheers! -Bob
  5. Here are a few nice swan-neck movements. Enjoy!
  6. This guy is selling basically case kits for v72 movements, and says he will sell his bracelets independently. They're 19mm Oyster design with hollow center links, and 571 endlinks. All you guys looking for some good 571s, here they are. His price for the bracelet shown is $49 shipped. Cheers! 19mm Oysters on the Bay
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    Snow!

    Does anyone know what it means when the sky looks like this? It means it's gonna snow! WE GOT SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  8. Wow, TTK's new Flieger is awfully close to this gen ... and about $2,400 cheaper!
  9. As many of you know, a rep Submariner is indeed a heck of a tough watch. I should know. So since I'm offering up a Planet Ocean as a POM award, it only makes sense to test it too, to ensure that it matches the durability of a Submariner. So without further ado, here are a few mild preliminary tests to see if it is even close to the same toughness as a Sub. How's the waterproofing? Let's go swimming wit' da fishies and find out... Not bad! Now we wash off all that nasty algae and fish poop... Send in your POM entries or... the watch gets it! EEK!!! I stumbled across the scene of a near-murder in the woods! Is the watch...decapitated? Whew! It was only a near miss! . . . . . Who knows WHAT nefarious tests will await this poor Planet Ocean if we don't get more POM entries!!!! SAVE THE WATCH!! Its very existence depends on your POM submissions!
  10. Congratulations to my son David, the newest Eagle Scout in Western Alaska Council!
  11. Check it out... and his other items. Who thinks this is a real dial? Dial on Ebay
  12. I received an email today from Dutchy and he's alive and well. And he received that LV you sent him, Randy. He sent me a couple of photos. He's happy as a clam at high tide!
  13. There is ONE good watchmaker here in town. I went to see him at noon with a couple of old beauties. One is the little 67-year old gold Rolex I bought my wife, the other is my 6536 Submariner. The ladies watch is hard to wind, and he said it's rusted. He popped the back off, lifted the dial and said "It's rusted to he--" and put it back together. He said he won't work on it. For my Sub, I want the lume off the dial and my new tropic 16 crystal fitted. He said he won't do the dial and he's not sure the crystal will fit. Oh, and no charge for the arrogant sneer. Pisses me off. It looks like Ziggy is getting more of my work! At least he's a gentleman. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
  14. Okay, eagle-eyes... what do YOU see wrong with this watch? For that kind of money it ought to be absolutely immaculate. Ridiculously expensive Rolex
  15. Check this out... a 6mm crown and tube but with the "brevet" cross. Does anyone else feel like this is a rep of the real piece? It would sure look nice on my 6536. 6mm Brevet
  16. ...on Pluto! "Since 1989, for example, the sun's position in Pluto's sky has changed by more than the corresponding change on the Earth that causes the difference between winter and spring. Pluto's atmospheric temperature varies between around minus 235 and minus 170 degrees Celsius, depending on the altitude above the surface. The main gas in Pluto's atmosphere is nitrogen, and Pluto has nitrogen ice on its surface that can evaporate into the atmosphere when it gets warmer, causing an increase in surface pressure. If the observed increase in the atmosphere also applies to the surface pressure--which is likely the case--this means that the average surface temperature of the nitrogen ice on Pluto has increased slightly less than 2 degrees Celsius over the past 14 years." http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/pluto.html ...on Jupiter! "Using whirlpools and eddies for comparison, Marcus bases his forecast on principles learned in junior-level fluid dynamics and on the observation that many of Jupiter's vortices are literally vanishing into thin air. "I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles," says Marcus. "This global shift in temperature will cause the jet streams to become unstable and thereby spawn new vortices. It's an event that even backyard astronomers will be able to witness." According to Marcus, the imminent changes signal the end of Jupiter's current 70-year climate cycle. His surprising predictions are published in the April 22 issue of the journal Nature." http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/release...1_jupiter.shtml ...on Mars! "According to a September 20 NASA news release, "for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress." Because a Martian year is approximately twice as long as an Earth year, the shrinking of the Martian polar ice cap has been ongoing for at least six Earth years. The shrinking is substantial. According to Michael Malin, principal investigator for the Mars Orbiter Camera, the polar ice cap is shrinking at "a prodigious rate." "The images, documenting changes from 1999 to 2005, suggest the climate on Mars is presently warmer, and perhaps getting warmer still, than it was several decades or centuries ago," reported Yahoo News on September 20." http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17977 Blasted SUVs.
  17. Sorry guys, I've been out in the woods chasing bears (literally) for 4 days. I was all over a bear this morning, and he was tearing stuff up last night so I had to chase him off then too. I'm back in town for a few days, then I'll be gone backpacking again for another 7-10 days. Happy 4th of July all! -Bob
  18. The Fairy Godmother's Last Theorem, Resolved Via Oracle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mathematicians have recently laid out eight math puzzlers for the new century - riddles and theorems that remain unsolved. Among their list, however, there was no entry for the Bibbitybobbityboo Theorem. As first postulated by the Fairy Godmother in Disney's "Cinderella", it asserts: Salagadoola, Mishakaboola, Bibbitybobbityboo Put them together and what have you got? Bibbitybobbityboo. She states that the combination of Salagadoola and Mishakaboola and Bibbitybobbityboo gives Bibbitybobbityboo as its result. It is up to the reader to determine the functions and expressions required to make this equation correct, and to uncover the real-world relevance of the equation. And as DBAs and developers, it is up to us to see how Oracle can provide the answer to this long-standing concern. Going beyond the simplistic cases where Salagadoola and Mishakaboola are both either zero or 1, this Theorem at first seems to imply Mishakaboola = -Salagadoola Thus, the Theorem becomes Salagadoola - Salagadoola + Bibbitybobbityboo = Bibbitybobbityboo but surely a puzzle that simple would not have held sway over the collective mathematical community since it was first postulated over a carriage-worthy pumpkin. Investigating the problem further, one finds that it could not even be properly solved with Oracle until the later versions of Oracle7! After much research, the case can finally be closed. For the full problem definition clearly states, in a later section of the same discourse: The thingamabob that does the job is Bibbitybobbityboo. It does a job! Bibbitybobbityboo can thus be a function or procedure, and Salagadoola and Mishakaboola must act on it in a way that returns Bibbitybobbityboo as the result. Let's consider the possibilities: 1. Salagadoola is a package, and Mishakaboola is a function within it that returns its input as its output. Thus: select Salagadoola.Mishakaboola('Bibbitybobbityboo') from dual; would return 'Bibbitybobbityboo'. However, this is a text string, not a done job. 2. Salagadoola is a function, undoing whatever the function Mishakaboola does, thus select Salagadoola(Mishakaboola('Bibbitybobbityboo')) from dual; would return 'Bibbitybobbityboo'. You could further nest this with Bibbitybobbityboo as a function: select Salagadoola(Mishakaboola(Bibbitybobbityboo(`job'))) from dual; 3. Salagadoola is a schema, Mishakaboola is a package, and Bibbitybobbityboo is a function or procedure. Put them together and what have you got? Bibbitybobbityboo. This is the strongest of the cases thus far, since Bibbitybobbityboo, as the only function in this configuration, would be the only component capable of being the thingamabob that does the job. A variant on this theme would be for Bibbitybobbityboo to be a synonym for a Salagadoola.Mishakaboola package/function combination, but that's not as strong a case. Additional cases can be made for Bibbitybobbityboo being a Java class, or a method associated with an abstract data type, or a trigger on a Mishakaboola table. With so many options, it's not surprising that the Bibbitybobbityboo Theorem remained unsolved until now. If Salagadoola is a schema, Mishakaboola is a package, and Bibbitybobbityboo is a function, then Salagadoola.Mishakaboola.Bibbitybobbityboo(`job') must do the job. Simply returning the string `job' does not meet the stringent conditions specified in the problem definition - the thingamabob must do the job. But we already know that the RUN procedure of DBMS_JOB does the job. Therefore, Salagadoola.Mishakaboola.Bibbitybobbityboo(`job') = DBMS_JOB.RUN(`job') The Theorem can now be solved: Salagadoola.Mishakaboola.Bibbitybobbityboo Put them together and what have you got? DBMS_JOB.RUN. It's not quite as lyrical, but it works, and it even fits within the meter (D-B-M-S-JOB-DOT-RUN). Fermat would be proud. The analysis of Chim-chim-aree Chim-chim-aree Chim-chim-charee is left as an exercise for the reader.
  19. Some Wal-Mart customers will soon be able to sample a new discount item, Walmart's own brand of wine. Yes, the world's largest retail chain is teaming with E&J Gallo Winery of Modesto, CA, to produce the spirits at the affordable $2-$5 price range. While wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to throw a bottle of Wal-Mart brand wine into their shopping carts, here is a market for cheap wine, said Kathy Micken, professor of marketing at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. She said, "The right name is important." So, here we go....... The top 12 suggested names for Wal-Mart Wine: 12. Chateau Traileur Parc 11. White Trashfindel 10. Big Red Gulp 9. Grape Expectations 8. Domaine Walmart "Merde du Pays" 7. NASCARbernet 6. Chef Boyardeaux 5. Peanut Noir 4. Chateau des Moines 3. I Can't Believe It's Not Vinegar! 2. World Championship Riesling And the number 1 name for Wal-Mart Wine............. 1. Nasti Spumante
  20. A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician are sitting at a sidewalk cafe enjoying the scenery, when they spot a couple walking into a building across the street. A short while later, the couple reappears along with a third person. The physicist observes "That couple entered the building, went into a wormhole and encountered a duplicate of one of themselves from a parallel universe, who has come out with them." The biologist says "You silly man, they have obviously reproduced while in that building!" The mathematician muses "You know, if one more person goes into that building, it will be empty..."
  21. I took my daughter down the Kenai penninsula for some salmon fishing and to visit my brother in Anchor Point. It was a great weekend, and we caught some fresh, bright king salmon ("chinook" salmon to all you roundeyes out there) but no salmon over 60 lbs this time. What a great weekend! Fishing for Kings on the Anchor River this morning: Here's the Cabin Bob Built: In the background is Illiamna volcano and the ocean, and a million Bald Eagles: Fishin' babes come in all ages:
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    Jetmid

    While driving downtown today at noon I spotted a beater black Nissan Maxima with the license plate: MIDJET Can it be? Is it him?? Is he so absolutely incoherent that he even got his license plate wrong?
  23. I've got a few PMs from people looking for genuine T39 Superdomes. Last time this came up, the source had 7 of them... some of you know who I'm talking about. I just asked and he has some more. He also has a crystal for vintage 5513. I didn't ask him if it's the much-rumored Tropic 19 Superdome. RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
  24. I bought a watch on Ebay, a LeJour Superman. It's an automatic rated to 900' depth, gorgeous little piece. I was wearing it last night and it occurred to me that the crystal looks JUST LIKE a tropic 39 Superdome, down to the last detail. I haven't yet taken the crystal off to see if it fits a 1665 case, but... if it should fit, there's another source for T39 Superdomes. Is it possible that LeJour could have bought a stock of crystals from Rolex and used them on their own watches? Were the T39s made in-house, or supplied to Rolex?
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