There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Ended up dismantling the exit gate on our secured parking lot yesterday with the Spyderench that's always in my bag, when the power to our block was shut off and everyone was trapped in the lot at closing.
Fused the ends on about 200 polypropylene ropes (I hate polypropylene - why do people buy that crap instead of nylon?) a couple days ago with the little butane pencil torch that's in the bag too, when my local boy-scout troop was setting up a small tarp-city for a garage sale and no-one seemed to have heard of whipping the ends of ropes.
One of the scouts borrowed the jeweler's screwdrivers to dismantle and repair a toy that his little sister wanted from the garage sale.
An friend in the next office over borrowed my tweezers yesterday to pick a splinter from a 3D printer (how do you give yourself a splinter, with a 3D printer?) out of his thumb.
There's hardly a day that goes by when someone doesn't need /something/ out of my EDC kit. Rarely the same thing, rarely the same reason, but geez do I feel naked and exposed if _I_ am the guy asking to borrow something...