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[Phil Harmonica]

Modern technology is great when it works! Never let a computer know that you’re in a hurry!

I love GPS!

 

[AshleyC]

Shiloh

Antietam for me, so far. I like that it is largely uncluttered by monuments, as is Gettysburg.

So tragic a thing. The war almost ended there. And if it was anyone besides Lee, it would have ended there.

 

[eSteve]

In general, the larger and more populated an urban area is the shoddier and more indifferent the service you will receive at a fast food place.

You want "good" McDonalds, for example, then go out to a rural town where the employees are older women supplementing their social security check and teenagers who were in the 4H Club.

100%. I'm not so much a McD guy, it's adequately nutritious and fast recovery food. I live in maybe the most affluent district in Canada, has the worst McDonald's I've seen; frequent poor service. I sincerely want to move to a rural town.

 

[AshleyC]

100%. I'm not so much a McD guy, it's adequately nutritious and fast recovery food. I live in maybe the most affluent district in Canada, has the worst McDonald's I've seen; frequent poor service. I sincerely want to move to a rural town.

I moved out of Columbus and back to my hometown almost two years ago. While neither small, nor rural (50,000 population), the difference in stupidity level is palatable.

In two years, for example, nobody has ever asked me for a handout while I'm pumping gas.

 

[Alum Ladd]

My annual Civil War tour is coming up. I’ll walk the battlefields of the Seven Days, east of Richmond. With this trip I’ll have visited every battlefield east of the Mississippi. The Revolutionary War battlefields will follow starting in ‘26.

That's the CSA counter-offensive to the 1862 Federal amphibious invasion to take Richmond? A very ambitious plan
I would say. The beginning of Lee's reputation.

If you visit Malvern Hill please post some pics.

 

[Quaznoid]

That's the CSA counter-offensive to the 1862 Federal amphibious invasion to take Richmond? A very ambitious plan
I would say. The beginning of Lee's reputation.

If you visit Malvern Hill please post some pics.

I will

 

[Hopalong]

I like a real map, still use them. I like seeing the lay of the land. I’d bet you look at a real map of those battlefields you visit before you visit them. i know I would.
I bought a new pickup in 2023; would trade ALL the worthless tech for some good paint. Everything they came up with after power steering I could easily live without.

 

[eSteve]

I wish everything had stopped in about 1970. I could do everything then I do now much easier and more conveniently. We’ve gone backwards. Those under 50 won’t agree with me, I’m sure.

Yeah. I think I'm a little younger than you, I see it too. My lifespan parallels the decline into the chaos we're all drowning in.

 

[Trollky]

I like a real map, still use them. I like seeing the lay of the land. I’d bet you look at a real map of those battlefields you visit before you visit them. i know I would.
I bought a new pickup in 2023; would trade ALL the worthless tech for some good paint. Everything they came up with after power steering I could easily live without.

We've had our car for a decade and I still think it has too much tech. I've already warned my wife that our next car probably won't have much more than a heater, seatbelts, radio and front disc-brakes

 

[Quaznoid]

We've had our car for a decade and I still think it has too much tech. I've already warned my wife that our next car probably won't have much more than a heater, seatbelts, radio and front disc-brakes

Good luck finding one. I fondly recall my ‘66 Beetle with 2 knobs on the metal dash, one for lights, one for wipers. All you need.

 

[Phil Harmonica]

 

[eSteve]

to achieve a socially acceptable shave in 5 or 10 minutes.

This interested me. I may be belabouring it somewhat but I enjoy the research, the study. So I've timed some shaves. And I can recall that a basic shave from my shadey disposable past, a single pass with the Sensor 2 and canned gel, was 7 mins. My current two-pass wet shaves, without prep and clean-up, are about 15 mins. So twice as long. I like this math. I'm good.

 

[AshleyC]

This interested me. I may be belabouring it somewhat but I enjoy the research, the study. So I've timed some shaves. And I can recall that a basic shave from my shadey disposable past, a single pass with the Sensor 2 and canned gel, was 7 mins. My current two-pass wet shaves, without prep and clean-up, are about 15 mins. So twice as long. I like this math. I'm good.

This only confirms what I suspected. Going DE/SE makes the odds of my having to hear the entirety of "My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane close to 100% if I select the streaming iHeart Radio channel "Vinyl Jazz" to play while I shave. It seems to be impossible not to hear that.

 

[eSteve]

This only confirms what I suspected. Going DE/SE makes the odds of my having to hear the entirety of "My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane close to 100% if I select the streaming iHeart Radio channel "Vinyl Jazz" to play while I shave. It seems to be impossible not to hear that.

That's brilliant! I'm not a fan of streaming but love my hard copies of Coltrane.

 

[AshleyC]

That's brilliant! I'm not a fan of streaming but love my hard copies of Coltrane.

Supposedly, the thing about "Vinyl Jazz" is that they only play the original vinyl recordings. Nothing digital.

I was at a cigar lounge in West Carrolton yesterday and a few of us were watching an episode of "The Mandalorian" while smoking. The topic turned to Star Wars toys people had as children. I remarked that I was born in a timely enough fashion to have seen all the original three movies in the theater at just the right age frame to get full enjoyment.

Another guy asked if theaters back then had anything like Dolby surround sound for the orchestral experience.

I turned to him, cigar in my hand and said, "We had a guy playing an organ."

That great little delay where you can see someone's brain connecting all the dots of a joke and he busted out laughing.

There, for just a few seconds, I was George Burns.

 

[eSteve]

Supposedly, the thing about "Vinyl Jazz" is that they only play the original vinyl recordings. Nothing digital.

I was at a cigar lounge in West Carrolton yesterday and a few of us were watching an episode of "The Mandalorian" while smoking. The topic turned to Star Wars toys people had as children. I remarked that I was born in a timely enough fashion to have seen all the original three movies in the theater at just the right age frame to get full enjoyment.

Another guy asked if theaters back then had anything like Dolby surround sound for the orchestral experience.

I turned to him, cigar in my hand and said, "We had a guy playing an organ."

That great little delay where you can see someone's brain connecting all the dots of a joke and he busted out laughing.

There, for just a few seconds, I was George Burns.

Great story Ashley. Undulating. I'll keep it going because I've just been thinking about seeing the first Star Wars.

I just watched a doc on Tubi (ha! streaming) about the old movie theatres on 42nd Street in N.Y. back in the day. It was good. The movies I saw in my town as a kid were all in old ornate theatres too. Nice ones, not sordid or smelly like 42nd St. They had a feel to them, now lost to time.

I think Star Wars was in (one of?) the first modern theatre(s) in my town, with a modern sound system I suppose. Man, that first Star Wars was quite something. I was 12 or 13.

 

[Quaznoid]

Antietam for me, so far. I like that it is largely uncluttered by monuments, as is Gettysburg.

So tragic a thing. The war almost ended there. And if it was anyone besides Lee, it would have ended there.

And anyone but McClellan.

 

[AshleyC]

And anyone but McClellan.

Ah yes. But then, McClellan is easier to forget to mention, isn't he?