That is a great way to save on a cruise. I am sort of surprised 6 weeks out was considered last minute, but either way $100/day is pretty good. ( When I worked on board I could have had a guest sail for $50/day and they would stay in my cabin.) Usually if you live near a major port like Miami or Ft. Lauderdale you…

Who did not see this coming? Granted MUCH sooner than expected.

I’ve noticed more and more gas stations have flipped the order of the grades from smallest to largest - 87 on the left - to the other way with 93 on the left . It’s almost as if the station owners expect people who habitually reach for the leftmost pump because that is USUALLY where the cheaper 87 octane is, never…

My wife and I looked into their cruises and may still do it for our 20th but holy crap they are pricey. I worked on cruise ships for nearly 5 years and there are a lot of ways you can cruise for decent prices but Disney.....damn.

1989 had so many great movies.

It WAS news...TWO years ago.

I do too but right now I do not agree with how they are handling things. This goes to the parks as well. When I lived in Orlando I visited often and they wee always immaculate. It was very impressive and I loved going there. The last few times however it was such a drastic change. The bathrooms were gross, litter on…

Damn, you have me there, but it can wait. Still not worth giving the mouse any more money than I absolutely need to.

Depending on the camera, most Super 8 cameras shot at 18fps mainly to get as much time out of a cartridge of film. You could get nearly a minute more at the smaller frame rate and for home movies, the quality difference was not enough for most people to bother flipping to 24 if the camera even had the option. That…

The potential problem here is that people are going to paint all of these Trump donors as racist and that is not the case. When all of your choices for President are different levels of bad, people have to go with whichever one they think is less so. How are you going to feel now that you know a very good friend or…

The Disney remakes are not part of a nostalgia loop. When they used to re-release their cartoons in theaters, or buy the tapes when the opened the vault to a degree, we would all flock to go see them under the guise that our kids needed to experience them the way we did. When in reality, it was just us wanting to go…

Why are these ancient articles appearing at the top of the page more and more?

The NYC metro area is one of the few places in America where you can practically trip over any one of hundreds of excellent mom and pop sub shops that have more types of salami than the Subway employees even know exist. ( I still miss Carpanellos in Harrison, NY. A Sunday tradition was to walk over from church across…

A lot of this can still be laid at the carriers feet for doling out updates as they see fit. Especially now that the days of subsidized phone costs have gone the way 0f 3-D TV’s and most of us are paying the full cost of the phone, there is no reason a phone should be locked to a carriers control anymore. Google…

This seems to be a trend happening lately. There are few things as seminal to that generation as Woodstock and you would think it would be impossible to screw that up. ( Granted a lot of that generation would have trouble traversing the uneven terrain with their walkers, but I digress.) But also both Disney And CBS…

I remember having a discussion with a co-worker about Radio Flyer over 20 years ago. He apparantly saw a preview and I saw it on video and it did not take long to realize that the movie I was describing had little in common with what he saw. I wish I could remember specifically but there were entire scenes he…

Watch this excellent minidoc on the Bittersweet Symphony fiasco and how the Stones took an old public domain song This May Be The Last Time that the Staples Singers covered and created their own song The Last Time WITH THE SAME LYRICS and then locked it all up. ( OK Allen Klein was responsible for going after the…

I was there a lot last year and I could not believe how much the area has changed. The brass mill was still standing when I moved away in the early 90's. It was a great place to grow up and the schools were great (I lived near Pomperaug) There was not way the then antiquated NVM was going to be able to survive the…

Yeah, I’m old. Any 80's kid in the greater Nauatick Valley area spent a lot of their free time there. Pretty much one stop date night.

That is a common sense idea that had no place in government.