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Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Vasco Nocturne Automatique

Barrett — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:42:42 -0000

This is fantastic minimalist styling, and the proportions look amazing. I may get one for a friend, just because it feels very uniquely him. As for what I'd love to see from the brand, something a little sportier, with 100M water resistance would be a killer one-watch collection go anywhere, do anything watch. The dial color and proportions would let you go from beach to boardroom to broadway all with the same watch.

Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Marathon Arctic Edition Large Diver’s Quartz (TSAR)

Barrett — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:37:48 -0000

This is one of those watches that not only feels right with a quartz movement, but benefits from it immensely. Professional precision; professional durability; no excuses or compromises.

Re: New Genesis X Speedium Coupe Debuts As A Stylish, Electric GT Concept

Barrett — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:34:49 -0000

Holy hell this is gorgeous. If they make the Speedium Coupe, and the specs are even 75% as good as it looks like they'll be, I will 100% buy one.

Re: The Next-Gen 2024 Ford Mustang’s Front-End May Have Already Leaked

Barrett — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:45:34 -0000

Feels like they stopped designing the Mustang in 2005, and have just been refining ever since. You could put it side by side with the S197 and tell me it was a special edition of it, and I'd believe you. And lest it be up for debate, I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Re: Hands-On: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra In New Dial Colors For 2022

Barrett — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:10:03 -0000

I like the Omega AT in theory, but in practice: the fact that all three hands are shaped slightly differently really bothers me. If they were all the same shape, it’d be a knockout.

Re: How The 2024 Chevy Silverado EV Compares To The Ford F-150 Lightning, Tesla Cybertruck And Rivian RT1 (w/POLL)

Barrett — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:21:46 -0000

I wish it were ranked choice voting here, because I picked Rivian, but the Chevy is a close second, Lighting third, and Tesla dead last behind "no thanks, I'll wait for something else entirely."

Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Ball Roadmaster Marine GMT

Barrett — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:02:33 -0000

You know, I sometimes think the green trend is overdone, but this particular interpretation is a really excellent addition that feels stylish, not trendy. Checks all the boxes: GMT, dive watch, rotating bezel for a third time zone, great lines. Count me intrigued.

Re: 2023 Corvette Z06 Teased, Debuts On October 26th

Barrett — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:36:41 -0000

"I'm Jacob-"
"I'm Yuri-"
"And we're going for a drive!"

Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Franck Dubarry Diver Watch

Barrett — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:36:44 -0000

It's the hands that got me. I just can't stop staring at them. I know it's a dive watch, but the first thought I had was seeing myself wearing it through Morocco. Something about the delicate tilework and Berber-Arabesque designs seems like the appropriate backdrop for this watch. I couldn't tell you why.

Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Marathon MSAR Automatic Dive Watch

Barrett — Fri, 01 May 2020 10:17:35 -0000

Love the clean look of this, and honestly considering grabbing one for my birthday in a couple months. As far as models beyond this one, a GMT is really all that comes to mind, as it's by far my most useful and used complication.

Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Orient Star Contemporary Semi Skeleton

Barrett — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:01:23 -0000

I'm a definite Orient fanboy (owning a few and gifting more than a few others) and I appreciate that they're delivering their Orient Star line to such a high degree of quality and polish at such an awesome price. What I'd love to see from Orient and OS is more options with GMT movements. As someone whose professional life involves phone calls and emails throughout a multitude of time zones (and whose person life involves a fair amount of travel through the same), it's easily my most used and useful complication. And while I would love to see an OS interpretation of a moon phase or the like, in the end, the elegance of an Orient Star combined with the usefulness of a GMT hand is what would get me to pull the trigger.

Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Marathon Search & Rescue Diver’s Automatic (GSAR) “Grey Maple” Watch

Barrett — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:28:59 -0000

There's something really attractive about watches like this that are still almost brutalistically function first.

Re: WATCH & EXPERIENCE GIVEAWAY: Ocean Adventure With Zodiac Watches & aBlogtoWatch In The Bahamas

Barrett — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:30:17 -0000

This may be the most niche request here, but not only do I second the request for a dual timezone watch or GMT, but would love it if it was also antimagnetic. My work often requires that any watch I wear not interfere magnetically, which severely limits the options. But for a watch designed to be an elegant tool, a robust, professional, antimagnetic dual-time or GMT automatic watch would be the perfect tool for me.

Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150m From WatchBox

Barrett — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 09:44:57 -0000

Omega has always been my favorite "aspirational" brand. I don't own one yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

Re: Should landlords and tenants share the cost of apartment retrofitting?

Barrett — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:20:02 -0000

Renting is, by definition, a business. So if there are additional legalities to keeping that business operating under the law, why should tenants cover that company's cost of doing business? Tenants aren't receiving any equity or ownership of the increased value of the property because of these improvements, so why should they bear the business' costs?

Re: T-Mobile ranked fastest 4G LTE network in the US, Sprint the worst

Barrett — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:06:54 -0000

In LA, I regularly pull 25-30mbps down on T-Mobile.

Re: Not sure if you’re drinking a craft beer? There’s an app for that

Barrett — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:36:24 -0000

Thanks for having me on! One addition I think worth mentioning: my cofounder Rudy Jahchan is a little shy, but he deserves at least as much credit for the app as I do. Not only did he write all the code, but he also pushed hard to include barcode scanning as a necessary feature - and I think much of our success can be traced back to his insistence on that point.

Re: Crafty new beer app warns of big-brewer ownership

Barrett — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:14:32 -0000

I don't care about popularity (in my fridge right now there's a couple Stone beers and some North Coast Scrimshaw - both hardly the poster children for beer obscurity) but I do care about my beer's origin.

As I said in the article, I prefer to support the little guys. The little guys who made craft beer popular in the first place, and who now have to worry about being pushed out of shelf space because of similar macrobrewed sub-brands. The little guys who experiment with new styles and flavors because of passion or curiosity, not because trend modeling suggested it and marketing approved.

You can intimate that it's equivalent to a music fan falling out of love with a band because other people know about it, but the truth is that because beer is so personal, some people just make purchasing decisions based on different criteria than you do, and that's fine - or at least it should be.

Some people like me, for example. And for the people like myself to whom "whether or not a beer is made by an authentic craft brewery" matters, we wanted to make finding that information easy. If that information doesn't matter to you, then our app shouldn't either. If that information does, then we're glad to be of service.

Re: Crafty new beer app warns of big-brewer ownership

Barrett — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:52:36 -0000

I do.

Re: Crafty new beer app warns of big-brewer ownership

Barrett — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:52:15 -0000

Living in LA, I'm spoiled for choice when it comes to local breweries - even more so if you include San Diego. There's definitely a special feel to supporting something from your own community.

Re: Crafty new beer app warns of big-brewer ownership

Barrett — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:33:18 -0000

Android version's in the hopper.

Re: Crafty new beer app warns of big-brewer ownership

Barrett — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:32:36 -0000

I'm an occasional home brewer, but nowhere near good enough to drink my own stuff exclusively. I still make the occasional "Old Sweat Sock Ale."

Re: Nintendo Fusion Specs, Details Leak — Wii U successor outed? | BGR

Barrett — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:01:00 -0000

This was already debunked yesterday as none of the numbers (and some of the brands - AMD Adreno?) match the actual hardware specs, and some of the hardware is server-sized, not desktop/mobile/console sized.

Re: Who Cares About 4K TVs? - by Adriana Lee

Barrett — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:55:15 -0000

Move those plans forward: Vizio just announced their new 4K sets starting at 50 inches for $999.

Re: Xbox One teardown: BOM at $471 | BGR

Barrett — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:33:17 -0000

No offense, but those interested in "console-based Internet streaming" are a subset of a subset of a subset. That's two subsets removed from "everyone will want it." Personally, the only reason I'll buy a camera is if MS ports Skype to PS4. Otherwise, I have zero interest.