Dang, that would have hurt with real money.

I always stick to mutual funds and ETFs. The few individual stocks I’ve picked on my own have always lost money. I lost $750 to Beyond Meat, and a couple thousand with BitCoin Cash (should have held it for another year, but hindsight etc.). My mutual fund picks have all gone up. Some more than others, but none have lost me money.

I didn’t know that the MMOC marked the beginning of the GRM blade format that we know and love to this day. Proprietary, yet backwards compatible.

At least you voted, unlike someone.

Giving it a spin right now.

Yes, good timing actually because I’m assembling smushes for next month’s BVWSC shave. I’ll send both in the same envelope.

If Will does samples again this year (I haven’t looked at the release schedule so don’t know if this is a “skip” year) that might be a good idea, but it’s an incredible scent and you’ll want more. I don’t have enough left for BVWSC, otherwise I’d nominate it.

Want a smush?

Thanks, Oprah.

I just built a computer for a friend and she decided to get an AMD when I told her it was about the same performance but used half as much electricity.

This is a person who knows nothing about computers. Intel is losing their “household name” status in a big way judging by that.

Here is the new community. https://sub.wetshaving.social/c/bvwsc

I tried to get our own version of that website up and running in docker, but it’s above my skill level at this point. Nothing wrong with using their instance of it, though.

November 19, 2024

• Brush: Maggard 24mm Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna Lab Blue (1)
• Lather: Barrister & Mann - Vespers - Soap
• Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Lyssa - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral
• Fragrance: Barrister & Mann - Lavanille - EdP

Really nice shave. I was inspired by @snooting@sub.wetshaving.social who just got one of these razors. It pairs quite nicely with Lab Blue blades, but honestly it works with just about anything.

Vespers is amazing.

It sounds like using a 3rd party website is a popular idea and will reduce workload for @porkbuttsntaters666@sub.wetshaving.social, but there are some concerns about spoofing votes.

As ridiculous as fake votes for soap sounds, I wouldn’t put it past some loser from another instance seeing a voting thread and clicking on it.

Instead of requiring some sort of sign-in, here’s my proposition:

1. We create another community especially for BVWSC Voting. The community will be set to “local only” so users from other instances can not see it.
2. The announcement posts will still be made in c/wetshaving, but with a link to c/bvwsc so the voting link will be hidden from other users.
3. We can require usernames for voting and nobody needs to create any new accounts (including whoever makes the poll).
4. If @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social decides to vote under my name, I will publicly shame him and remove him as moderator!

I thought of a solution which I’ll post under the main thread.

Great stuff. That’s odd about the brush logos. Surely Stirling didn’t check all of their inventory (that would be crazy), but I would think Zenith has better quality control than that.

Have you emailed Stirling? I have no doubt they’d send you another one.

Titanium Legacy++

I’m always glad to see other people like it. It’s a unique razor, and Ron is a great guy!

There’s a setting to require inputting a username, so that would help a lot.

There’s a setting to disable anonymous voting.

I have no opinions, but we could look into using something like this for voting: https://rankedchoices.com/

We can even self host it - https://github.com/davidmoritz/rcv

It requires that everyone (who votes) ranks everything due to the drag-and-drop nature of it.

Here’s a little test I made https://rankedchoices.com/vote#fx8h

Looking forward to it.

This one gets used the most - https://maggardrazors.com/products/maggard-razors-shaving-brush-knot-24mm-synthetic?

This one is a close second. It’s softer and has less character, but I still love it https://apshaveco.com/products/24mm-synbad-fan-synthetic-knot

I also have a Stirling “2-band” synthetic that lives in my suitcase which is enjoyable.

November 18, 2024

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers - “Gianmaria” w/26mm Maggard SHD
• Razor: Wolfman Guerilla (Gen 1)
• Blade: Bolzano Superinox (Germany) (6)
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Soap
• Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Petrichor - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

Nice shave. Still auditioning this knot for this handle. I’m quite torn. It’s a nice knot, but ultimately I do love using synths most of the time. I have some “nice” badger knots and I hardly eve use them, so no point in adding another one.