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  1. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^ i’m getting the Bill Gates tracking chip implanted tomorrow along with my COVID shot.
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Local code bans cats running loose off their “owners’” property. If there’s any enforcement, I’ve yet to see it. But then, in the five-plus years we’ve been in this house, I’ve seen but one cat routinely patrolling the block — an all-white one who lives (I think) around the corner. I’d like for...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One of our dogs, the more elderly of the two, has been a regular visitor to the vet of late. On one recent visit I was asked if I was Sandy’s owner. No, I said, Sandifer is an autonomous soul, no one “owns” him. I’m the human who sees to it he has decent food and shelter and affection. (And who...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The lovely missus and I have assumed custody of a neutered male cat of indeterminate age (somewhere between 3 or 4 and 10 or 11, depending on what evidence and whose recollections you might find credible; I’ll ask the vet’s opinion when I take the cat in for a going-over on the 17th). I didn’t...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ It’s a wonderful life.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    But none of this has anything to do with the politics of the moment.
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    But none of this has anything to do with the politics of the moment.
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Love ’em and/or hate ’em, the smartphone is a world-changing technology, maybe not right up there with the printing press, but not far behind. I miss the world made by the communications technologies of my early years. I miss the stacks of once-read copies of today’s paper at the end of the...
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That’s that 91 octane stuff, ain’t it?
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yet, the world has been going straight to hell ever since the thought occurred to a Neanderthal named Grog. Too much is made of “generations.” Sure, folks of that “greatest generation” we so laud around here sacrificed and triumphed in ways their children and grandchildren never did. But that...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Might it be that in world that rewards dishonesty a person would be suspicious of most any compliment? Or any other seemingly kind gesture? Corruption is endemic to the species. So is cancer.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Nah, couldn’t have been that.
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve heard worse.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Back when I was compelled by a professor to read and opine on Marshall McLuhan (the professor was in his thrall), I found him among the most painful of academics to read. And that’s saying a lot, considering how painful the writings of academics generally are. Too bad, really, because his ideas...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There is a certain mental discipline that’s becoming less necessary. It spills over into other aspects of our existence. It frightens me when I hear serious speculation of a post-literate humanity. It doesn’t seem nearly so far-fetched as it did just a few years ago.
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If what you’re referring to is GPS, then yes, I use it whenever I’m headed into unfamiliar territory. Why wouldn’t I? I don’t use the feature that talks to me and shows an animated facsimile of where I am on the road. I find that distracting. But then, I have decades of practice consulting...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ TD Ameritrade commercials are just the worst. That bearded twerp is insufferable.
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A friend has a wife and two daughters with long, lush, thick hair. (One daughter has since left the nest and the other ain’t far behind.) I recall visiting him on a couple of occasions in years past as he snaked the bathtub drain, extracting great globs of matted hair, glued together with the...
  22. tonyb

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    My memory of the old acquaintance I alluded to above, the fellow who lost his left ring finger in a freak accident, prompted me to look into what became of him. Turns out that he died in 2017. So today I made an entry in the online guest book. I often do that when I learn of the passing of a...
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Take this with a healthy dose of skepticism, but I read somewhere years ago that when chased with lotsa hot water coffee grounds actually help keep drains clear. It wasn’t so much as suggested that the coffee would clear a clogged drain, but that the grounds would pick up grease and whatnot...

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