I understand the feeling, and I had a soft spot for the Zune despite never owning one. For me, it was minidisc. I went through a series of portable and home MD recorder/players and my closest is probably stacked with a few hundred MD discs, still. I only have one player, with a bad battery and a display that doesn’t…

I don’t have nearly that big of a collection, but to this day I still prefer buying CDs over downloads, unless I feel fancy and pony of for something off HDtracks.

I totally agree. Streaming music sites may not have the “it came and went without anyone noticing” rate of a Netflix of Hulu, but things do disappear from time to time as licenses expire. Just like with orphaned music on mp3 players, if you can’t remember it, it might as well have never existed.

Art’s Coast to Coast AM was something special on late night talk radio. He gave nearly everyone equal respect, but it was often clear that he was allowing some of it just for the entertainment value as much as anything. He never seemed to take anything excessively seriously.

It’s this way in the pre-scandal BEW and ALH engines, too.  I haven’t gone under my car for an oil change in over 10 years.  Which is good, since it has a metal skid plate that’s heavy and cumbersome to remove.

Since the gist of this was geeking out over the technical aspects of his show, I feel like I gotta bitch a little at Food Network (and Cooking Channel in particular) for airing his old 4:3 shows in god-awful Stretch-o-Vision™. And not the kind you can negate with a few button presses on the TV remote, but the janky…

I’m surprised at all the comments on high Target prices. My local Target seems to be within a few bucks per trip of Walmart, and Cartwheel+REDcard usually winds up making it a full wash. The grocery section is not great but it’s “expanded” which means it’s almost 1/3 the size of all the Super Walmarts’ grocery sections…

Same experience here. No General Tso, that was strike one. Mediocre mall-court food was strike two, and the lack of any discernible heat or flavor was strike three.  Ours has been open about a year now, and it is a ghost town.  And this is even in a place where “buffet slop” is a passable take on Chinese, so you know…

They have?  I thought they were some weird combination microwave-convection oven doohickey that only half-toasted half-heated anything.

I’m a fierce Doritos independent. I’m always voting third party because I feel like both of the two main parties are just flip sides of the same MSG-laden coin, with flavors too mainstreamed to be effective in today’s snacking climate.

What’s worse, is all they offer to drink is crab juice or Mountain Dew.

Wasn’t tasting an Arizona Iced Tea punishment enough for the poor kid?

Oh my goodness, I had totally forgotten this existed. I saw the first two or three episodes about six months ago as part of a research thing. I was prepared not to like it because the voice acting and animation seemed rather rough around the edges, but it won me over thanks to some solid storytelling. I can’t wait to…

There are only 80 working hours in the week!  But seriously, not all of us are fully functioning humans who can work for a living.  Some of us have health issues that require us to be more… limited. Being online helps me deal with the pain.

“Some of us are able to navigate the internet - ads and all - quite well though...”

It’s a reaction based on being exposed to oxygen after being open for a while.  Sealed hot sauce won’t do this.  I’ve had to toss the occasional bottle of Crystal hot sauce because it turned brownish-green over time in the cabinet.  But, at 79¢ a bottle, it’s not like I’m being exceptionally wasteful.

White Castle is the oldest fast food chain in the nation as far as I know, and Krystal is very much a knock-off. The guy who founded it based some of the parameters, including the small square slider format, on White Castle.

I would like Chex Mix a lot more if it weren’t for the fact that I know what homemade Chex party mix tastes like. The bagged stuff just doesn’t compare.

One of the good things about the Whataburger locations west of Texas is they sell the green chile double year-round.  It used to be a limited time burger east of Texas but they quit doing that, unfortunately.  I used to drive clear into Florida just to get one; then they built a store in my town but quit offering the…

I puked regularly all through high school.  Apple Jacks was rather unpleasant but the worst cereal to puke up was, by far, Nerds cereal.  The shade of “rather distressing reddish pink” in the toilet sent another kid running to my homeroom class to get a teacher because he thought I was having some sort of weird…