The Old Folks Home

[dmjalund]

1 hour ago, Scott Ruggels said:

We had a Gremlin until my m om killed it.

Did she get any XP for it?

[Cygnia]

Talking about music last night at dinner and the hubby of my hubby's niece asked "What's a cassette tape?"

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

10 hours ago, Cancer said:

Cigar boxes.  My mom kept her old rock collection in them.  Not sure when we got rid of that.

 

 

I used to love cigar boxes. Dad was a smoker, mainly pipes and cigars, and I would get any old boxes he had. 

 

I tried a few years ago to get my hands on some for a project. They're collectibles now and far too expensive. 

[Ternaugh]

1 hour ago, Cygnia said:

Talking about music last night at dinner and the hubby of my hubby's niece asked "What's a cassette tape?"

 

"It's how we listened to portable music before MiniDisc."

[Asperion]

13 hours ago, Scott Ruggels said:

We had a Gremlin until my m om killed it.

The original midevil gremlin or the modern take that was reimagined in their movie?

[unclevlad]

16 hours ago, Scott Ruggels said:

We had a Gremlin until my m om killed it.

 

 

Definition of a mercy killing, right there....

[Old Man]

[unclevlad]

7 hours ago, Logan.1179 said:

 

 

I used to love cigar boxes. Dad was a smoker, mainly pipes and cigars, and I would get any old boxes he had. 

 

I tried a few years ago to get my hands on some for a project. They're collectibles now and far too expensive. 

 

Vintage ones, yeah, that wouldn't surprise me.  New ones shouldn't be, unless they're really high-end cigars.  Might be trickier to find them;  brick and mortar tobacco shops are scarce.

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

10 minutes ago, Old Man said:

 

I think they're going to be in for disappointment. 

 

[Pariah]

Just out of curiosity, does anybody know what Superman changes in these days?

[L. Marcus]

I dunno -- karaoke booths?

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

Harley Quinn is having her 30th anniversary. 

 

[tombrown803]

1 hour ago, Old Man said:

Now she has a perfect reason not to allow her kids to get their driver's license in a few years, and even better a one to tell them "no" when they ask for a car

[Old Man]

1 hour ago, tombrown803 said:

Now she has a perfect reason not to allow her kids to get their driver's license in a few years, and even better a one to tell them "no" when they ask for a car

She could do what I have done, which is keep my manual transmission car. 

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

That's brilliant. 

[unclevlad]

4 hours ago, Old Man said:

She could do what I have done, which is keep my manual transmission car. 

 

Did you upgrade from a crank starter model yet?

Heh.  That acually reminds me.  I've been reading Dan Willis' Arcane Casebook series, which is urban fantasy...circa mid 1930's.  (Think it started in '32, it's up to around '37 now.)  There's an FB group for it.  LOTS of interesting shots from that period...the fancy cars more often than the common ones, buildings, street shots....  Quite amusing.  The cars are impractical as ALL heck, but damn, they're gorgeous.

[L. Marcus]

An old mate posted a pic on Facebook just now, of us in a group photo when we were doing our stint in the Royal Guards at the royal palace of Drottningholm. Damn, time has not been kind ... and I've never been able to pull off that military look.

[Cancer]

Quote

SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?

 

[L. Marcus]

Eh, sure, why not.

[Old Man]

Holy thread necromancy, Batman!  Talk about old!

[Cancer]

I had to explain the line to my daughter & her friend this evening (they were using a command-line prompt to circumvent a monetization grab when copying files, which is what brought it to mind).

[Ternaugh]

I went back to my original property to train a new tech, and the whiteboard still has the phone numbers of the other properties (including several demolished ones). I had added to the list several years ago, and the entries were still there:

 

CPE1704TKS

Jenny: 867-5309

Hal x9000

Reliant: 16309

 

 

[death tribble]

I knew only two of those and looked up the others. The middle two were the ones I knew.

[Rich McGee]

On 6/24/2022 at 4:42 PM, Logan D. Hurricanes said:

I think they're going to be in for disappointment. 

Future calling, you're dead wrong.  No preteen in 2022 is going to have to drive a fossil fuel vehicle if they don't want to - and many won't.

 

For a real entry:

 

"The damn old shrew is listening in on the party line again!"

Edited January 10 by Rich McGee

[unclevlad]

3 hours ago, Rich McGee said:

Future calling, you're dead wrong.  No preteen in 2022 is going to have to drive a fossil fuel vehicle if they don't want to - and many won't.

 

For a real entry:

 

"The damn old shrew is listening in on the party line again!"

 

11 years old?  No.  Electric cars won't have taken over in 5 years.  It's not clear to me they'll take over *at all*...in the sense of completely replacing fossil fuel vehicles.  At least, not in the current setup.  If graphene batteries can be developed...that would change a great deal.  Graphene-based batteries promise to be much smaller and much lighter...and the battery pack can be a good 1/4 of the vehicle's ground weight.  Acceleration improves.  Range improves.  I don't recall if recharge time can improve, but long charging times are a problem for those who have to drive a lot.

 

But there's still big question marks...live in an apartment?  Where are you gonna charge up?  Charging stations need to be built out.  COLD weather issues:

https://www.cars.com/articles/our-tesla-model-y-in-cold-weather-how-was-range-affected-448043/#:~:text=At an observed 3.91 miles,a 28% decrease in range.

 

In my case...I would've had the apartment issue, along with a daily drive of, IIRC, 25-30 miles each way, for about 15 years.  Map shows 2 charging stations on Highway 70 that I could use...and one is at a Staybridge, so might be guests only.  BUT...many of these are SLOW charging.  ChargePoint shows the publicly available site is 6.6 kw...20 miles of range *per hour* of charge time.  That's fine at home, in a garage, but totally unacceptable for a roadside charging station.