Honestly, if there’s a risk that Grandmaxyzis going to lose all her family pictures, then her family pictures should be on OneDrive/GoogleDrive/Whatevertheheckdrive. It’s time to bring back a maxim from the early ‘90s: There are two kinds of users: Those whose hard drives have failed, and those whose hard drives will…

30% is probably the proportion of Windows users still on XP. If 30% of upgrades were blowing up, Redmond would be a smoking crater.

I saw that post (and a zillion OMG! follow-ons).

Nothing could make me happy if it’s associated with one of these.  Surely the ugliest vehicle ever built.

NB: Obama got three nominees.  The Turtle stood in the courthouse door.

I’ve had multiple email accounts over the years...Yahoo! , then Hotmail, then Gmail (since day 1). Gmail is my most-used, and my Yahoo! account has been dormant for years (ever since it started to look like Yahoo! was CTD).

So, like, you’re kind of hoping for an Eeetle?

Or the XsMax is its replacement.

I have large hands and prefer the SE...

My dad raised me with the belief that Craftsman tools were the good stuff; I got a bunch of his surplus stuff, and he gave me a nice set when we bought our first house.

The past few years, though, I’ve been increasingly disappointed with the stuff...anyone else have a similar experience?

My dad raised me with the belief that Craftsman tools were the good stuff; I got a bunch of his surplus stuff, and…

Back in the late ‘60s, my dad acquired a used ‘67 MGB. He’d always wanted a TC (IIRC), but this was what he could get. It was blue, which was an unusual color for an MGB. Eventually he sold it (MGBs are impractical cars in Minnesota) for an early Capri, which was the car in which I learned to drive stick.

When I was in grad school in the ‘80s, I had a friend who bought something that looked exactly like this.

And for that, Lear should be cursed for all time.  8-tracks were designed to self-destruct, and there’s nothing like hearing the clunk of heads shifting in the middle of a Linda Ronstadt song.

“Not physical in any way.”  Stick his face in front of a fan.

Oh, yeah. My dad (who taught at the U) used to go there, and he advised me regarding the need to dress warm. The lucky ones get to stand along the back wall behind the diners when it’s really cold (at least, that used to be the custom).

One thing you’ve missed, among a whole bunch:

Al’s Breakfast in the Dinkytown neighborhood around the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. Best.

Is it just me, or do vehicles like this resemble nothing so much as demented slot cars with foam tires?

Yep. I’ve stopped in stores and tried to type on 12" Macbooks and 13" Pros. I can do it. I can touch-type on those keyboards. But I do not enjoy it. I might get used to it, but it doesn’t make those first-choice machines for me.

I like using a notebook because that way I have my entire office in my briefcase. Makes things easier.

I’m a HUGE fan of buying used. A couple of years ago I got a ThinkPad X240 (still in warranty) with an i5, 256GB SSD, and 8 GB of RAM for <$300. Not quite as svelte as a Macbook, but very nice. I actually used the warranty to get part of the case replaced because it creaked a little—Lenovo sent a brace of techs out…