I find it interesting that there is no app or service here that I need to use. Indeed, it may be about 10 years since I have seen a new app that gives me something useful. Really useful. I do wonder if the days of the really new app or service are over. Maybe if they (meaning the world, not just M$) ever really get…

Never. And I graduated in ‘70. I might do the 50 in 2020 just to see who’s alive still, assuming I am still one of those guys.

Roundabouts are BS. Germany realized this back before 2008 (the year I arrived there) and put a STOP sign at the entrance of every roundabout and every semi-major intersection. Of course, having us crazy American over there for years may have had a lot to do with that decision.

To be fair, it’d been 1984 in all of the world until recently (“recently” being from the last decade to rhe last century, depending on where you live.) Every country’s 0.001 %, from day one, has been trying to control their subjects so as to become the 0.0001%. China’s 0.001% will probably be last to leave 1984, if…

You can also make an ‘X’ or form 4 spaces by drawing 2 line perpendicularly. Then put 2 choices, twice, in the 4 squares so that when the stone does its pendulum-like swing, it hits two ‘answers’ that are the same. It’s fun until you realize that you can subconsciously make the stone go to whatever answer you want…

I like the Big Mac but I have never been able to eat one without it falling apart on me about half way through. To be fair, I have the same issue with tacos, and tortillas, also favorites. I usually finish these meals with a fork. 

I like your idea of getting rid of officials (on-field, at least). We have the tech to get rid of the home plate ump. No question. It’s just a union-approval matter now, really.

“Google will never sell your data.” LOL Why would they? They are raking in money hand and foot showing us ads all over Gmail, and all the other Google-based apps, based on the data they have already skimmed/bought/stolen from those same apps. Pfft. The days of everyone else owning our data are beginning to look like…

Well, as a Nats fan, with the way this season has gone, I would not be f**king surprised if that indeed happened. Thereby causing the Nats to call up their AA team and, of course, having them have a better month than the regulars previous month.

Is the “Port of Shadows: A Chronicle of the Black Company by Glen Cook” a new book or a re-release of one of his old books? The book’s description blurb, “The one person who was taken into The Lady’s Tower and returned unchanged has earned the special interest of the court of sorcerers known as The Ten Who Were Taken…”…

True, however we old farts have crap memories and what is often taken for granted will be kept in short OR long term memory simply spent the night in our heads (and we may not even have the memory that it was there at one time). I remember drawing maps for the first Sierra games (where the picture slid from left to…

Lincolns seem to be “sold” at Ford dealerships, off in a corner at my local Ford dealer. Sad. American car makers seem to have just given up on competing in the (BMW/Mercedes/Audi) luxury market. The level of craftsmanship, which should be able to compete with the Big3Germans just isn’t there or isn’t perceived to be…

Am I correct to say that, generally, “Whiskey” is bourbon and “Whisky” is scotch? Because you have both above. (I don’t think there are any single-malt bourbons, but I could be wrong, again.) I am only able to drink scotch, not bourbon. My wife and son are only able to drink bourbon. (Bourbon makes me sick, literally,…

You will never see any statues of Nazis in Germany (that I am aware of). Don’t see any reason to honor racism in any form, anywhere.

Blizzard pretty much deprecated professions into oblivion in the last patch. That was after the previous patch (Warlords of Draenor which included garrisons) emphasized them. That was so much fun. When they took the garrisons away, I was sad. I eventually cancelled my subscription this year as I really enjoyed…

I saw a video of some “master sommelier” rating box wines. He actually gave a “okay to good” rating to a particular box wine. So, on a trip to visit relatives, I tried that brand of box wine. Ugh. Not making that mistake again. 

Since restaurants usually put a 100% markup on their wine, I rarely buy wine at a restaurant. Doesn’t seem like a good deal. I don’t know of any BYOB restaurants in VA, but that sure seems like something worth looking for. I am so glad that craft beer showed up in the 90's. (Did a law change?) Now, my favorite…

Actually, if the human umps actually called the strike zone as defined in the rules, and consistently at that, most of this discussion/argument would have never happened (imho). A real knee-to-chest strike zone would (instead of the knew to belly-button zone we now have) would make the batters swing more, and there…

We have the tech to get the strike zone called by an AI, or even, dare I say it, AWS, as advertised on most games or the equivalent. The strike zone as called by umpires is so inconsistent and rarely close to what is defined in the rule book. Heck, if the umps would just call the strike zone as defined in the rule…

I am quite convinced that he let HBO GoT “finish” his series for him. After all, being as old as he is is no energy picnic. Hell, I am about out of energy and I don’t think I am as old as him (although I am officially an old f*rt.)