See also: ZIP drives. High-speed spinning floppies that can hold 100MB. They would have been frickin’ amazing ten years earlier, but as it was, they were done in by flash memory and other cheap storage options.

Never underestimate the power of nostalgia to make a person part with their money. My brother in law recently bought a vintage Transformers Jetfire toy. It doesn’t do anything... he left it at my in-laws house, seemingly on purpose, just waiting for someone to throw it away or put it into the Goodwill box, but he…

Yes. I’m also going to admit to enjoying a very subtle design (like flames or ponies or something) for a tiny contrast between the base color and a very very slightly shifted or pearlized version of the same. Looks like a ghost in certain light, but otherwise is just a dark car.

Uh... special... dispensation from... uh... gotta go.

To play Devil’s Advocate for a second, some people find photography of the deceased, or around the wake/funeral/whatever to provide some sense of closure, as mentioned in the last paragraph of your article.

I believe I would drive the bejeezuz out of that mint-colored thing. If it weren’t painted mint.

I don’t disagree with any of that, nor did I assert otherwise.

Meh, that’s what I remember about them. Started great, were corrupted by asshats with different agendas. You may be factually correct, but in my memory, every time there was a CM event, someone had an elbow in the face. Many bikers were hurt by idiots who didn’t know the traffic laws - both bicyclists and drivers.

My guess is because we’re a car-driving and -loving nation, for better or worse. When I was younger, I never even wanted to own a car, but in the city I was raised, it used to be super difficult to ride to do anything, especially when you’re young and poor.

Nope. And I never would. Not with the stories in the press, from friends who rode in them, and from friends who live near the paths of the rides. No way, uh-uh, nosir. I would tend to avoid places where people deliberately congregate to piss other people off. That’s just asking to get beat for no reason.

Maybe I’m misusing the term, but in my mind, “Critical Mass” was an event that was initiated by bicyclists to include anyone on the streets where they rode. So, in my saying “Critical Mass was frequently violent,” I was not attempting to paint any particular group as being the instigators of violence, but merely…

Gotcha. I’m trackin’ now.

What are you talking about? I think the user you replied to was referencing the Crimean peninsula. Not Mexico. Or Cuba.

Names, Claire! Who... is cooking... the avocados?

Not sure what you mean by that, but I wasn’t stating an opinion on DDOS, just facts on Critical Mass.

Except that Critical Mass was (is?) frequently violent.

Brilliant!

Not a typo, but a different kind of mistake. We weren’t supposed to be calling it “Uniom” until after the speech tonight, when he reveals:

I wish I could give you extra bonus points for this gem: