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at ASR saw I this -
Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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Saw this at ASR:
This explains so much...
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My dad has only ever had a flip phone. Do you remember how hard it is to text with one of those? Almost as hard as a TV remote!
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I've never tried to text with my TV remote......I'll take your word for it....
When I had a flip phone and someone texted me, I called them back to answer. I wasn't about to mash 87 times to answer 3 words... -
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
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Years ago, before unlimited cell phone plans, my dad sent his first text message to me via the old T9 method. His message said, "I think I'm texting". I replied with, "You know those may cost you 10 cents each". Never got another text from him...ever."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
Sunset last weekend in St. Petersburg...the one in Florida.
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
Years ago, before unlimited cell phone plans, my dad sent his first text message to me via the old T9 method. His message said, "I think I'm texting". I replied with, "You know those may cost you 10 cents each". Never got another text from him...ever.
I remember some parents finding out their kids had been texting with high 3 digit near 4 digit bills when they received them. I clearly remember one parent at work stating their texting costs were near .25ยข a letter. Crazy time for sure. -
I installed cellphones in cars when airtime was $4.50 a minute if you went over your 30-minute allotment. The contracts were $300 plus a month, and the Motorola installed carphones were $1299.00 plus installation. Of course, the only ones that could afford that bill were celebs and the ultra-wealthy. But if you worked for the company, your phone, and the minutes were free. That was good for impressing the ladies when you reached in your pocket for that brick phone... They thought you were rich and packin'...The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2800 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon MiND2 Shunyata Triton/Typhon Rotel RP9400 Turntable
โWhen once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.โโ Thomas Jefferson
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I remember my first cell phone (โ95?) - I had a $100/month plan for 60 minutes. Man, I was calling everyone and anyone at the end of the month to use up that airtimeโฆโHuman beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.โ
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I had a bag phone for my car. Damn expensive I remember. There was a hot girl she and I went for a long drive. She wanted to try it out. I let her. Frig. For the price of that call I could have taken her to Michelin Star restaurant. At least that's what it felt like. I was 17. Young dumb and full of ....
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I had a bag phone for my car. Damn expensive I remember. There was a hot girl she and I went for a long drive. She wanted to try it out. I let her. Frig. For the price of that call I could have taken her to Michelin Star restaurant. At least that's what it felt like. I was 17. Young dumb and full of ....
Back in the day, I called my GF at the time on a flight home. Had to swipe a credit card and I think it was like $40. It was worth it in the end, though! ๐
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Woke up for coffee and gas. Thought I was transported to Cantafordya.
New blend makes inflation tolerable...
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mhardy6647 wrote: ยปWe have a friend who is a bit of a gearhead*.
Always interesting to see what he's driving. Last time he visited, he was driving a lovely, very early Mazda Miata, on his way to some sort of car thing in Vermont.
He stopped by last week driving another Japanese vee-hickel, but a much newer one.
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* he is, in fact, a retired mechanic, who had his own garage on Long Island for a long time.
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Man if I could buy gas with no ethanol all day every day I'd be a happy guy. The only pure gas we get is premium. Our E85 is only .30cents cheaper here in Illinois, AND it takes TWICE as much to drive the same distance as 10% blend.
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That needs a white stripe down the sides.....
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I've often wondered why the Baltimore Orioles liked oranges. I've yet to hear of an orange grove in Maryland
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I did see something very interesting on a nature show about woodpeckers.
Hummingbirds when they fly north in the late March early April they follow Sap suckers. The sap suckers drill holes in Birch trees to get at the sweet sap running in the spring. The Hummingbirds feed on the sap coming out from the holes before flowers bloom.
I often wondered what the hummingbirds were feeding on, I couldn't see much sap coming out of the daffodils or tulips. -
They love grape jelly as much as oranges.
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The (rather battered -- thanks bears!) oriole feeder in the photo is triple-threat. Besides the oranges, it is full of nectar (which I make at 1:3 strength in the early season for hungry migrators) and the little side-cups are filled with store-brand grape jelly.
No boutique locavore stuff, sorry, birds! 
Mrs. H told me the sapsucker thing, too. We haven't seen sapsuckers in the yard yet this year, but we're hearing their syncopated tapping around the 'hood (and have been for several weeks).
Here's a legacy sapsucker picture from 21Apr2022.
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This one is also pretty good. It's on reserve so far this year, FWIW.
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In preparation for the decommissioning ceremony for the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, we have the exceptional honor of being escorted by one of the newly re-engined Federation ships...the B-52X.โ
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This is like a Deep Thoughts bit on vintage SNL.
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
