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
I've never been one that was really into "cooking" TV. The genre has become over saturated with reality TV, a genre that has never aroused any interest from me at all.
Parts Unkown and The Layover (along with Good Eats) were some of the only "cooking" based shows I ever really enjoyed, but I especially loved Bourdain's. The social commentary that was often at the forefront in his shows was really what kept me interested (just showing me a super delicious bowl of food and talking about it for an hour, or eating a "gelatinous" cow testicle -looking at you Andrew Zimmern, is just not my thing). He seemed to understand the simple pleasure of connecting with "daily life" in the places he traveled to, a culmination of appreciating local culture, cuisine, and the surrounding landscape. I always really appreciated that about his shows, the no BS approach was very welcomed in today's Total-BS world. Definitely a very sad loss.