Alabama Slim

I'm the answer to ya prayers if ya praying for #CHANGE... #4 #iHoop #SportsManagement #Coach #HuntingdonCollegeAlum #MemphisLaw⚖️ 1L #CriminalJusticeReform

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

Does an undrafted player that has never been signed or even entered the draft have player’s rights under the NFLPA??

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

Brendan Sorsby's counsel, Jeffrey Kessler, tells @YahooSports that the NFL's decision "is a violation of the collective bargaining agreement and we intend to pursue the player’s rights with the NFLPA."

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

I am a millionaire.

[SOFT @user4_Soft]

I will be a millionaire

[ARROW @phresh_arrow]

Normalize being more fit at 30+ than you
were at 20.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

This is why it costs $6.5 million

Here's how a Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime is made:

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks.

It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design.

In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself.

The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it.

This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials.

Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against.

Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.

[Dume @gietzschean]

We should normalize just suiting up on Fridays and weekends and drop PJs, sweatpants, crocks, sneakers.

[Dr. KaNisha L. Hall @DrKanisha]

Tennessee State and Meharry have an accelerated program for students to become doctors and dentist in 7 years. Currently this program has no Black Men applying. Applicants can email [email protected] and also have them follow @theblackdoctor on IG! Please like and share!

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

1) Speak like a Lawyer.
2) Express like a Philosopher.
3) Think like a Scientist.
4) Analyze like a Psychologist.
5) Observe like a Detective.
6) Love like a Poet.
7) Decide like a Judge.
8) Create like an Artist.
9) Work like an Engineer.

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

@3rdLetterTwice_ Form still there.

[shay 𓂀 @surrealistshay]

turning your home into your own museum + art gallery >>>

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

Personal foul - Targeting

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🐂 INSANITY DURING BULL RUN: This happened today at the Las Delicias de Trujillo resort.

Bull run During the San José Fair, it ended in tragedy when two of the bulls got out of control

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

43 FG Attempts and 43 FT Attempts is crazy! Did anybody else shoot the ball? #NBA

[Boluwatife @TEEPHTREND]

I'm fertile ground; nothing dies in my hands, and everything I lay my hands on will prosper.

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

The smartest are quiet. The happiest are private.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Robert Greene said it well:

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

Cam Newton is unknowingly exposing himself to sexual harassment allegations in his future.

Any woman that knows he finds her attractive can easily say he made unwanted sexual advances toward her.

Also, the word he needs to learn is maturity not self control.

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Cam Newton says it’s IMPOSSIBLE to have platonic friendships with women without wanting more 😳💀👀

“I don’t have women around me that I’m cool with that I don’t have plans on st*bbing”

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

😂😂😂 no motion.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Grizzlies majority owner Robert Pera reportedly got furious and threatened to buy out the minority owners after a woman he met out didn’t believe he owned the team and thought Justin Timberlake did, per @PabloTorre

(Via @LeBatardShow )

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

I wonder what rule change are they going to make for Josh Allen this off season…

[Alabama Slim @AskRome]

Double entendre

[💞 @LowkeyEnergy_]

does the "fuck" in "fuck bitches, get money." mean ignore or have sex with