I believe it. The Woodland Hills store had, IIRC, something like 40 or so. It was crazy when the gear there was something necessary. Too bad, the owners messed up and got distracted and let that financial guy steal all that money. 

That’s what I remember. Too bad you had relationship stuff that happened at work; that can be painful. Ouch. 

It was. Unless the owners have come up with a real plan to get out of their mess which I doubt. In its heyday, Frys would be packed with people, especially during XMas season. There were times where I had to plan for acquisitions for work around the crowds. Like I’d work all day, go to dinner, and then hit them around…

Why? My girls liked the Woodland Hills Alice in Wonderland version.

I think they’re done. Last time I talked to an employee (last Novemberish?), he said they’re waiting for stuff to come in but it seemed to me to be just a canned answer. Their business model seems to have just exploded after their internal accounting scandals and the owners just can’t figure a way out of it.

Yeah, sometimes the theme didn’t work out well. For instance, I was at the one in San Diego (near UCSD) and although it was supposed to be an airplane hangar, it just reminded me of a warehouse. The one in Manhattan Beach was supposed to be sort of a South Pacific feel but really was more like a run-down Don the…

Reminds me of my local Frys Electronics; it’s a sad place nowadays but in its heyday, it had this at the Atomic Cafe :

I dunno. When last visiting there, the number of Merc overland-style Dakar type trucks was substantial. Seems like ever major park I went to there were a couple of Europeans driving them around. Pretty damn nice too. Wished I had one when my RV blew a tire on AK8 climbing up out of McLaren river. One of the rally…

Ehh, drive 1/2 mile down a sideroad and you are in inextricable wilderness. 4Runner or a Yukon w/4wd and a wallet for the gas. 

That’s an awesome movie. 

How sad. 

No, I think those hand unit systems were pretty standard for that era. They were all mechanical so fairly simple to maintain and easy to diagnose. Mostly just rods and small u-joints and rod ends. The thing was the angle of the rods was such that in combination with his particular seat and steering wheel arrangement,…

Had a friend who had a newer Hyundai when they were still considered junk. But she drove it up into the mountains during winter and blew the radiator. So, right away, she put in fresh cold water to cool it down. Apparently, it was time then for a new head. The hilarious thing was she went around explaining how her car…

I had a friend who had one of those. Specifically, it was early-’80s era Honda Civic hatchback (probably like an ‘84 gen-3, IIRC). Anyways, his legs were non-functional so everything was hand-driven. Pretty cool setup and I always found his driving to be perfectly fine. However, one day I went for a ride with him and…

And depending on the Cat version, some are seaplanes and some are amphibious. Just to confuse the issue.

Wasn’t there a guy who came in to replace Rogoway? I vaguely remember one who put out a couple of articles but disappeared after that. Did GMO just drop the whole concept?

Lovely but that RR for some weird reason makes me think that Gerry Anderson came up with it....

No, but I seem to be an eternal optimist. Also, continuously disappointed too. So cautiously deluded? I’m very, very lucky in many respects. Apparently, I’ve picked up some bad habits along the path. 

Tonic water with some lemon or grapefruit juice squeezed in. Works awesome. Sodastream works good too the same way. Don’t need any sugar for me but some probably want something in there. The artificial stuff just makes me more thirsty.

I can’t help but think that the wizards of Wall St. have really failed us badly. It’s terrible enough that the gov is a pile of contaminated parasite shite. But Wall St. cannot give up its numbers at all. If they had gone straight to 200mph on managing the economy shutting down, things could’ve been different. The…