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  1. tonyb

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

    ^^^^ I’m looking forward to Lizzie’s review. In the past I’ve used cat litter made from recycled newspaper and also this real pricy stuff called Dr. Elsey’s Cat Attract, which I suppose was kind of effective in getting a problem cat we once had to be a bit less of a problem. It may have...
  2. tonyb

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

    I’m not generally one to recommend products, but this stuff called The World’s Best Cat Litter lives up to its name. If the cat keeper tends to the litter box daily, sifting out the doo-doo and the clumps that form with the pee-pee, there is no odor, leastwise none that I can detect. It doesn’t...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Found a 1946 nickel in my pocket. Gotta wonder whose coin collection got stolen.
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ My health insurance company has been haranguing me about tele-health, and what a great thing it is for the patients, whose health is the company’s first and greatest priority. I don’t doubt there’s lots to be said for tele-health, not the least of which is that it is less costly. So...
  5. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    Am I to understand that you’re picking up the NBC, CBS, and the other signal and rerouting them through your AM transmitters?
  7. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    Can a near-identical grille cloth be found? I dig the diamond pattern.
  8. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    My little collection of old radios has me looking into a low-power AM transmitter. Don’t know that I’ll actually do it (getting the old radios serviced and repaired really should come first), but the idea intrigues. There’s so little of interest to me on broadcast AM these days that getting...
  9. tonyb

    Larry McMurtry

    ^^^^^ Yeah, I read that yesterday. My lovely missus was a big fan when she was a little girl.
  10. tonyb

    Larry McMurtry

    “The Last Picture Show” is among my favorite stories.
  11. tonyb

    Larry McMurtry

    RIP
  13. tonyb

    Man-on-the-Street, San Francisco, 1 Jan. 1951

    ^^^^^ I wish I could say that surprises me.
  14. tonyb

    Man-on-the-Street, San Francisco, 1 Jan. 1951

    As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, I spent several weeks in 1968 in the same home as a man born in 1870. I wish I could say he regaled me with stories of his early life, but by the time I knew him his bag of marbles was mostly empty. I was told that he was still pretty sharp up until a...
  15. tonyb

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

    The so-called “smart” speaker. We had one, briefly, a couple years ago. I can see how it has a real utility for people with more limited physical mobility. But I found it creepy to have a normal conversation interrupted by that damned thing asking me what it thought I might have asked it to...
  16. tonyb

    Old sayings, which make no sense?

    “The honorable ... “
  17. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    At the Post Office today, a work station, a counter where the patrons box up their shipments and address envelopes and whatnot. Even young(ish) people recall when the local telephone directories were the go-to references for street addresses as well as telephone numbers. So of course you’d...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Ever since I introduced the lovely missus to roasted asparagus she all but insists it be prepared that way. Marinate the spears in sesame oil and garlic powder, spread it in a single layer on a baking sheet. Nothin’ to it.
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s not just seasonal over here in God’s Country. Asparagus is in the supermarkets all the year round, grown in Mexico and points south during our winter.
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I, too, have had to be reminded to take off my “boss” hat in the house. It’s a human failing. Corruption gets tamped down but never quite extinguished.
  22. tonyb

    Where is the Spring????

    A week ago we were digging out from a blizzard. Sideways snow for hours on end the day before. Yesterday it was pushing 70. Lawns soggy with melting snow. Dogs tracking it in. In the six-plus years I’ve lived here, I’ve seen 70 degree days in January, an 80 degree day in February, and I’ve...
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Plenty o’ kinks among the Irish, clergy and otherwise. But then, Harp, you’d probably know that better than I. We in my mongrel order are no strangers to scandals of that sort. Even in the finest families ...
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