The one observation I have about divorce (from growing up in the ‘60s and ‘70s) is that, in my experience/observation, children from families that have experienced divorce are probably somewhat more likely than others to go through divorce themselves.

W/r/t stainless steel, you write:

I grew up in Minnesota, a born-and-bred DFL supporter. Those were the days of the so-called Minnesota Miracle.

I saw my very first Smart on a business trip to Canada around 2006. I was amazed—you can fit two of those in a standard parking space!

Congrats from a former resident of La Crosse on getting the car(s) you wanted!

I’ve been hit three times. Never right-hooked.

The first time, in ‘99, a driver made an illegal left cross in front of me and stopped dead in the middle of intersection when he saw me coming downhill at 27 MPH. I had seen him make the illegal turn and was angling to go behind him when he hit the brakes and I hit the…

I am in total agreement. Keep your luggage WITH YOU. There are few things as frustrating as being one of those who does and then finds that the bin above their seat is already stuffed.

Also, unless you have a continuing flight that leaves in less than 30 minutes, wait until the people ahead of you are off the plane…

Pancake mix probably won’t kill you. But it won’t make you jump for joy, either.

Make your own—2/3 cup flour, 2 Tsp baking powder, 1/2 Tsp salt, 2 Tbsp sugar. Whisk that all together in a bowl, then add a cup containing 2 eggs, 1.5 Tsp oil and water to take the eggs and oil to 1 cup. Whisk some more.

In general, the best advice for RAM is always “more.” That being said, I’ve been running 8GB Windows machines for quite some time, and I’ve never had any trouble.

Yep. That’s known as premeditation.

You left out my two favorites—artificial hip joints (thanks, distracted driver) and insulin pumps (you have no frickin’ idea how great those things are—I can go nearly a week without worrying about where my insulin bottle and syringes are).

It might get smelly, but grass grows fine over Graves...

This car embodies “bun on a plate.” As for a greenhouse, if you want one of those, take a peek at a ‘81 Honda Civic Wagon. Now that’s a greenhouse.

The ‘80s called.  They want their salad spinners back.

We have a relative who sends applets and cotlets as a Christmas present every freaking year.

Back in the mid-‘80s, one place I worked for had word processors (I can no longer recall the manufacturer) that had full-page screen displays (CRTs, of course; there was a one-line plasma—I think—display on the keyboard that showed embedded formatting symbols). These were extremely useful for formatting documents in…

I have begun my purge.  I have a couple dozen books on my nightstand--mainly novels that looked interesting.  I am not buying anything new, paper or digital, until I have gone through these and taken each to the local used book store.  The volumes from law school are largely worthless and have been disposed of (said…

It’s the reason Spouse bought a CX-5.

Interestingly—on the “merch” side—Cinerama films generally came with a photo-essay book you could buy, dealing with various aspects of the film. While I was too young to remember anything like that w/r/t Grand Prix, I did for many years have the photo-book-thing from 2001: A Space Odyssey  and another (less successful…

Paperback novelizations were remarkably popular when movies were confined to theaters. I recall reading novelizations of Star Wars and Alien, and this would have been a decade and more after Grand Prix was released.

The reason is that, in those days, you couldn’t just see the movie again. Seeing a film counted on it…

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