I used to... Now have them on CD and MP3. These days you can even find video of Jules & Co.  performing.

Nobody’s heard of “Wake Up Little Susie?” “The War on Drugs”? “The Mariner’s Revenge Song”?
WHAT?

I haven’t lived in Chicago for years, but I used to take the Ravenswood El to teach at North Park (then college, now university).  Never visited Ravenswood for other purposes, though...

One more thing, though it’s a little counter-intuitive. Lend it to a friend, or take it to a used bookstore. These actions probably help the author in the long run rather than the book per se, but I’ve found so many authors I love in my local second-hand bookstore that have led me to make new book purchases that I…

I’ve lived in the New Haven area for twelve years, and I can’t give you one here...but if I still lived in Minneapolis, it would be Al’s in Dinkytown. Some day they’ll complete that vertical expansion project.

Glad to see Ann Sather is still on the list.  And, yes, the cinnamon rolls.

At some point in the mid-1980s, a colleague and I opened the keyboard of an IBM (iirc) terminal to clean it. Interestingly enough, inside the keyboard’s metal base was an electromechanical relay that opened/closed with each keypress. It served no other function that to confirm the keypress with noise and…

At some point in the mid-1980s, a colleague and I opened the keyboard of an IBM (iirc) terminal to clean it.…

Realizing this is a bit late...

That’s pretty much the nature of the Meritt. Bad sightlines to the traffic, and stop signs right at the entry.  Exit 60 in Hamden is the only safe one I know of. I wish there were a reliable way to move oncoming traffic into the left lane say 1/4 mile before the on-ramps. You wouldn’t have to strain your shoulder…

I live near Hamden High School, where the only reasonably sane on-ramp is located, at Dixwell.  Aside from that, yeah, it’s a drag race.

When I was young, driving with the snow blowing across the highway got even more surreal when this came on the radio:

“Launch Tube” is a good term for them.

I live in Connecticut, just off RT 15. What you need to know about that road is (1) that it has incredibly short on-ramps which amount to stop signs maybe 50 feet, and the road, (2) an official speed limit of 55 MPH, (3) an unofficial speed limit of 75, and (4) a lot of traffic on two lanes, but no trucks.

Forget fashion and buy a down-filled parka.  Trust me--I grew up in St. Paul.

Forget fashion and buy a down-filled parka.  Trust me--I grew up in St. Paul.

Cookies & Cream?  Meh.

Full-size Hershey bars?  Pretty damn good, IMO.  On the other hand, white chocolate?  As Ms. Boynton says “come off it.”

Gotcha.

I wasn’t aware that it was typically the job of a cable to regulate current (other than in the most fundamental way, i.e., to blow like a fuse when their carrying capacity was exceeded).

I’d be interested in knowing what the “serious damage” is. I’ve yet to have problems with cheap cables, but then I’m a sample of one. I did have a Belkin charging stand give out after years of service, but that’s somewhat expected.

Mid ‘80s at a Major Midwestern University. We’re both grad students, she in discipline P, me in discipline S, taking an advanced course that’s cross-listed with both of those and discipline E.