Generally good advice here—though I’d argue a little with the balance suggestion. Depending on your riding, you are likely not to have a 33/33/33 balance between hands, feet, and butt. My recent experience is illustrative:

I had the great good fortune to meet the Carters very briefly a couple of years ago. Although President Carter was still strong of speech and conviction, he did not carry himself at his full height. Combine that with camera effects and this photo isn’t all that surprising.

I’m not going to read all the comments below to see whether it’s mentioned or not, but how could this list not start (and end) with The West Wing?

I have to say nice price for personal reasons. I learned to drive in an Opel, a ‘74 if I remember correctly, one of a number that were provided by a dealer to the summer driver’s ed program that my school ran. TBH, I’d rather have my current Honda Fit car in a second, but there’s some nostalgia here...

Pluga is good. I like to start potentially difficult mediations by literally breaking bread, and Pluga is the butter I take along on such occasions.

Oh god!  Cornbread!  You MUST Have butter on cornbread!

Any sandwich with jelly or honey, butter is absolutely mandatory, else you will have something simultaneously soggy, crunchy, and unpleasant come lunch time.

When I was a little tyke, butter sandwiches with the innards sprinkled with brown sugar...

I have no beef with short-throw keys. I use notebooks exclusively these days, and love the keyboards on Lenovo Thinkpads, the Microsoft Surface Pro, and even my cheap HP Envy. I grew up on mechanical keyboards, but it was the Thinkpad that changed my mind. But I tried a Macbook and the feel was just...off. It may be…

I have to say that I am amazed Apple got away with it for so long. Not only is the keyboard fragile, it feels terrible. And yet, people bought them. When I shop for a notebook, keyboard feel and display quality are the two primary factors. There are many things I like about Apple’s designs, but this particular…

I am not what you’d call an “early adopter,” but I did buy my first computer in 1984.

I’ll agree.  I grew up in Minnesota and have lived in upstate New York, Wisconsin, and currently, Connecticut.  I’ve never seen it or heard of anyone who has experienced it.

I know there are far worse first jobs...

Nice. My red one was probably $1 (a lot for a pen in those days) c. 1966-7. Likely purchased at Kresge’s (similar to Woolworth, if you remember them) in the mall near my home.

Have you ever seen the old Sheaffer Peacock ink? Now that was a color!

Nice. My red one was probably $1 (a lot for a pen in those days) c. 1966-7. Likely purchased at Kresge’s (similar to…

I had one of the cone-top student pens (in red) in elementary school. Used the hell out of it, and always loved the point at which I had to replace the ink cartridge b/c of the smell of that blue ink. In grad school, I bought up a bunch of cheap inlaid-nib pens that the bookstore was remaindering, and then lost those…

I had one of the cone-top student pens (in red) in elementary school. Used the hell out of it, and always loved the…

Sheaffer’s fountain pens were among the best.  Their school pens were outstanding; their inlaid-nib pens were truly great.

Sheaffer’s fountain pens were among the best.  Their school pens were outstanding; their inlaid-nib pens were truly…

This is amusing.

A true story:

1. “What’s worse—a few minutes after she went after them, the woman’s phone was returned by an Uber driver.” — How is this worse? It’s certainly more embarrassing for the woman who accused the boy. It’s not worse.

*To the extent that guitar strings ever stay in tune. The joke among classical musicians is that guitarists spend half their performance tuning their guitars and the other half playing out of tune.

*To the extent that guitar strings ever stay in tune. The joke among classical musicians is that guitarists spend…