I’ve met a number of people who think pretty much any digital photography, especially if there has been any post-production work, is not “real” photography. I’ve discovered that it’s almost always down to the idea that digital is more forgiving - you can burn off a bunch of frames, delete in real time, and if you do…

I have only just seen this episode like halfanhourago, but yer Seinfeld deepish cut made my night. Thank You. 

Um, it’s clearly 1960, so there’s six years left of Lenny Bruce. Plenty of time if there’s another couple seasons. 

I think the Vegas sets are purposely kind of hacky, because that’s what’s getting the laughs from a bunch of tourists. As noted elsewhere the stuff that kills at the Gaslight might bomb here. 

In my lifetime? Nothing really. Before I was born? Probably my dad’s Austin Healey 3000, although at one point my folks both owned first generation Camaros. Dad had a ‘67 with a 350 and a stick, and my mother had a beautiful 1968 RS. The ‘67 was beat to heck and leaked oil, and the RS was wrecked in an accident.

I think it was a deliberate mislead - they kept referring to her going back home as “going to Providence”, and I bet we all assumed they meant Rhode Island (I know I did). Providence, RI had (and still has) a fairly large industry in jewelry and silverware manufacturing - with the stereotype of Jewish jewelers it made…

I had (and probably still have somewhere) their book “How To Play With Your Food” (or something). I know I’ve done at least two of the tricks described in there, and I wish I still had the sheet of stickers that came with it.

I remember that one trick was a simple “Is this your card” deal, where you had to order a…

I had that one - it was a gift. Kept it.

To add to my old school gaming cred, we had the ET game for the 2600 - purchased in a store and everything. Finished it. 

I forget the name of ours, but had the same experience. The place had dark wood paneling and a separate room for kids stuff (and I’m sure adult films too). In my ,ind the place was huge but I was like eight so it probably just seemed that way. But every Saturday we’d go down there and rent a movie. 

Because I’m an old now, my folks got us an Atari 2600 back in the day. We had a bunch of games (including the E.T. game. Which we bought new), and then my dad (who was in his mid thirties then) got hooked on the Snoopy and the Red Baron game. After like the third time he stayed up all night playing that (and he…

And they’re even less likely to buy print magazines about old Chevys. The target markets for several of those are basically old people. 

If you need that much toilet paper to wipe on the regular then you need to see a doctor. Something’s wrong there. 

Is it? I’ve never even seen one much less driven one. I just figured that it’d be slipping the clutch a bit as you drove along - but I may be thinking of something else entirely. 

It was a wagon, and nobody was doing SHO swaps then. Car could’ve been used, I really don’t know. But definitely manual Taurus wagon.

So there was a guy at my high school who’s parents were killed in an accident, and he received a very large payout (insurance, inheritance, I’m not sure. He was a year or two ahead of me and had maybe just turned 18 so I didn’t really know him). This was in like 1991 or so. In any event he started driving to school in…

I vaguely remember reading about shady dealerships taking used Sportomatic equipped 911/912s, fitting them with a clutch pedal and a heavy spring, and selling them as standard four speed cars. Of course the obvious thing would happen, people would drive around with one hand draped sportily on the gearknob, wrecking…

I’m not saying her whole family is like “See ya!”, but I can totally see, say, her folks and her bratty sister (not the one at the shop - does she have a brother too? I forget how many siblings she actually has) deciding that since she’s made this decision that she’s on her own. Her family seemed kind of shitty, as I…

Re: Tami. I genuinely think that her family has decided to abandon her because she wants to be with Lip. It seems that’s something they’d do after she decided that she’d rather see Lip than BOOOOONE! 

You’re mistaking “flawed” for “reliable”. Until very recently we had a 2015 Honda Civic (purchased new) that had plenty of flaws. Automatic transmission that seemed to take ages to take up drive when you went from park to any gear, and which seemed to be made of rubber bands. Throttle response that was best described…

Lifehacker’s over there.