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  1. tonyb

    Songs That Seem To Touch Your Soul.....

    “Ripple,” the Grateful Dead tune. It was played at a memorial gathering I attended last week.
  2. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Another wonder of Bluetooth is listening to long-form magazine pieces read aloud while motoring down the highway. Last night I listened to Jane Mayer’s most recent piece in The New Yorker, free of charge. (I let my subscription of several decades’ standing expire a couple-three or four years ago...
  3. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I fear that podcasts will only further “silo” the populace. A person of pretty much any persuasion and predilection is bound to find several that only reinforce and never challenge what he already thinks. “I don’t understand how … ” is a common refrain amongst many people with whom I generally...
  4. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    On a related note … The “new” van has a Bluetooth enabled “sound system,” which had seemed a hifalutin way to say “radio” until I discovered the wonders of Bluetooth and have found myself more frequently listening to podcasts and less frequently listening to radio broadcasts. (It also has...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve learned that it is now preferable, when requesting a meeting — business, social, whatever — NOT to suggest that we “hook up.”
  7. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    It’s not such a stretch to imagine a time when autonomous (aka self-driving) cars that come when summoned will eliminate the need for many people (most, maybe) to own their own personal vehicles. At present most cars sit unused the overwhelming majority of the time, and most get the...
  8. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Not so much over the past 16 months or so, what with the working from home and being spared the daily commute, but you’ve identified the primary reason I much prefer an automatic transmission and power steering and A/C and all those other creature comforts. When it takes 45 minutes or more to...
  9. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Longevity is among my primary concerns with personal vehicles. In this domestic unit is a need for wheelchair accessibility — in the home, on the grounds, and in at least one motor vehicle. Accessible vans, like so many “adaptive” contraptions, are OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive. We’ve been fortunate to...
  10. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    I know very little about Mr. Musk, but it’s next to impossible not to know SOMETHING about the fellow. I hear that he is prone to online outbursts that have people looking askance. But I haven’t looked into that, for pretty much the same reason that I don’t much care what’s in the pages of...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Perhaps so. As Mark Twain put it, “There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares.” In the matter of language, change seems the only constant. Much as we might chafe at it (as I sometimes do)...
  13. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    It’ll never replace the horse.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    An invasive species of ivy poses the same problem in the Seattle area. It wraps itself around trees and, left to do its thing, will climb the trees and essentially cover them, killing the trees.
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ In recent years I’ve seen Girl Scouts selling cookies only at tables set up outside supermarkets. (Thanks for not knocking on my door, young ladies.) I typically toss ’em five bucks and tell ’em to keep the cookies or give ’em to some shopper with a couple-three brats in tow and a cart...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes, I know. Same in GB, ain’t it, and those other former colonies where they don’t know how to speak proper American?
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Seeing how they’ve pretty well saturated the airwaves with advertising, I half expect them to start going door-to-door.
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I had a sign on the front door that said “No solicitors, survey takers, political canvassers, religious proselytizers, door hangers.” I think I threw in another category or two but memory is failing. The missus thought the tone bordered on the hostile and made me take it down. (We have a...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’ve been a renter and I’ve owned rental properties. I’ve never cared for the term “landlord.” I’ve never been a “lord” and I have no interest in becoming one. But I accept that these days, in this country, in most people’s minds, “landlord” is synonymous with “property owner,” so I just...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My relatives the dairymen always host a population of semi-feral cats. My wife, who had next to zero experience of an actual working farm, spotted such a cat on a visit there and asked my uncle the cat’s name. He smiled and said, “That’s a barn cat.” There’s a sadder story from that visit...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ll never forget gazing out the window of a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma one lovely spring day several years ago and witnessing two kids — 7 and 8 or so — running into a city planting strip and ripping up by the dozens the in-bloom daffodils planted there. Two “adults” — the little...
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s as if they’ve never seen “Talledega Nights.”

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