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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve never lived in a place where vehicle safety inspections are required by law. Emissions, yes, but not such trivial matters as structural integrity. I imagine that some enterprising types are pulling the engines and transmissions out of relatively low-mileage rust buckets in the Northeast...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As I’ve become better versed in these things, I’ve come to recognize that the “ iconic” (a much overused term, but in this case a fitting one) MCM designers — Saarinen, Eames, Nelson, etc. — owe a whole lot to designers working a few decades earlier. No matter what Tom Wolfe (who wouldn’t have...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve owned dozens of automobiles, and with the exception of a few lower-end British sports cars and a ’47 Dodge school bus and a ’56 VW and a much more recent wheelchair-accessible Toyota Sienna van, I’ve been the cars’ last owner before they got crushed, as memory serves. There comes a point...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, that stuff is sweet. Drinking it straight is not recommended.
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ The arts attract women and gay men in numbers disproportionate to their representation in the population at large. That’s all to the better, by my way of thinking.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve heard financial advisor types offer that the reason so many of their clients find it difficult to save, let alone invest, can be found in the driveway. Making payments on, and insuring and maintaining, two or three cars just sucks the blood out of a family’s budget. All but the...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I can appreciate the engineering that goes into extremely expensive cars. But in a world of 65 mph speed limits and traffic jams it’s hard to argue the utility of a Ferrari or a new Porsche 911. Those kind of cars, while still far from ordinary, aren’t such a rare sight, either. I just hope...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s most commonly a preface to a lie and/or an insult.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Must be a nice neighborhood.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I buy membership to a local museum of “fine and decorative arts.” In the before times I visited monthly or so, which had the annual membership fee amortized in about six months. The “decorative” arts are furniture and tableware and other items of utility in everyday life (one display had a WE...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Of course. It’s among the things I most miss about drinking. The Old Man called it “a little sugar in your coffee.”
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I like much of that art, the Rothkos especially. However, there is an absurdity in billionaires spending millions for works of “name” art while many very good artists are left to eke out a meager living by waiting tables and driving taxicabs. It’s as if the more money a person has, the more he...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    About the only thing I have against six-figure cars is that they drive up everyone else’s potential liabilities.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s been so long since I’ve drank instant coffee thst it couldn’t tell you when that might have been. Decades, anyway. I do recall that Taster’s Choice was the best of it that I ever sampled.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I wish I had a clearer understanding of just what is getting lost in translation here. What is “disgusting tasting classic manual or automatic German filter(bag) coffee”? Is that what we call “drip coffee” over here? I drink coffee on ice, mostly, and have for years. I make it extra...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Your taste buds are more refined than mine. I gave up the sauce 14 years ago, but prior to that I was a daily drinker. And I was something of a reverse snob — none of that “craft” beer or “microbrews” for me. That high-priced swill was just yuppie beer, in my book. But I learned that it was...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My stepfather was a Georgian. His people drank iced tea by the gallon, sweetened to a cloyingly degree, as far as I was concerned. My dear old ma tells me that when she first met him he adulterated his coffee such that she called it cream and sugar with a little coffee in it. She gradually...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Maybe I should quit while I’m ahead, but ... Might this offer some insight into why so many are disgusted by mayonnaise on hotdogs?
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’ve been to Fenway twice. On one occasion I ventured down to the bowling alley, which I hear is no longer. I had never before or since seen duckpins or candlepins in their natural habitat, and doubt I ever will again. And it saddens me a bit that the bowling alley is no longer there. I...
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Several years ago I treated my friend Farzin, a fellow who had spent most of his life up to that point in Iran, to a Seattle Mariners game. The game, as you might imagine, somewhat baffled him. But I figured some ballpark fare might make the experience at least a bit more interesting. “So...

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