They’re real. I have a True Value hardware and shoe repair within walking distance of my house, even though there’s a Home Despot a mile away.

When I was doing software, I followed the ergonomic recommendations and found the setup uncomfortable.  Different strokes for different folks, I guess. 

Yeah, the single-window approach may have something to do with it. Back before I was a lawyer, back when I was a software engineer and multiple screens became a possibility, we were all issued two-screen setups, and I hated it. I tend to have a certain focus, I guess. I ultimately gave away my second screen to an…

That’s not been my experience. The key for me is to find a good table or desk, and a display that’s sharp enough for me to work at a comfortable distance (as I’m doing now). It may not be ideal for everyone, but for me it works very well—indeed, I used to follow the ergonomic advice about sitting up, monitor height,…

I have to disagree with the premise—that is, that working with laptops/notebooks is uncomfortable. Maybe it is for some, but if you have a decent machine with a good quality screen and good keyboard, There’s no reason it can’t be fine to work with. I have tried all sorts of setups with external keyboards and monitors…

Ugly, ugly, very ugly.

As one of the other folks who were holding back the Y2K crash, I salute you. Interestingly, a year or two later, the UNIX calendar rolled over an extra digit and a few new things started failing. But it’s like working for the Checquy—what people don’t know can hurt them can’t hurt them, so long as they never find out.

My only real objection is 17MPG???

Cutaways like these are amazing. When I was a kid, my dad subscribed to Car & Driver, and I remember the fold-out (IIRC) cutaways they used to publish. I had a cutaway drawing of a winged Chaparral taped to the wall above my bed when I was 10 or 12...

There used to be an expression, “doing well by doing good.” That pretty much covers this event, and many others. And as long as there’s doing good involved, why not?

One of the nicest things about being an Old is that you don’t have to give a rat’s ass about what other people think.

Want!  I will not ask where your office is, but I will find it!

DAVID BERG! With onions, relish, pickles, hot peppers, krout, mustard, ketchup, and several other things I’m forgetting.

Oh, come on. Everyone knows it’s an almost-a-Foot-Long! To be eaten with tiny donuts and many, many glasses of milk.

The BEST hot dog I ever ate was in 1983, served from a cart just below the Eiffel Tower in Paris. For buns, the vendor had halves of French (natch) loaves that were pushed down onto spikes that were approximately hot dog diameter.

Here’s another:  “People like us,” or, more colloquially, “us.”

I’d read it with context. Not context to excuse the bad stuff, but to explain that at the time, many people held to these views; that they are discredited, but that some people continue to hold onto them. And explain why it’s important not to hold such views, and to take people as individuals instead of categories.

Holy crap! Until I saw that video, I’d forgotten that the thing could take a rack. On one cross-country trip, we mounted a Sears Escargo shell on top. Now that was a tall car.

No question that the second generation model was The One (red with white wheels was the Honda showpiece—ours, being FWD, was medium brown with black bumpers instead of body-colored), but I loved my low-priced model. Manual, no air, no RH mirror (even on the red one those cost extra), no power steering, no power locks, …

Meh. I never liked the Accords very much. Now, had they decided to make Prelude wagon!