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  1. tonyb

    Ray-Ban RB3025 legit check

    Maybe in one of the attire forums you would find people better versed on such matters. But I find it an interesting topic. How common are phony Ray-Bans? I see the regular retail price and compare it to the far lower prices I see in online pitches and I gotta think the latter are offering...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Traffic fatalities in the U.S. had been in a steady decline — both on a per-capita basis and in absolute numbers — for decades, until about five years ago. I don’t think it’s just coincidental that that increase pretty well parallels the ubiquity of “smart” phones. Unless we find a way to...
  3. tonyb

    Western, anyone?

    Beautiful Aurora, the Newark of the Front Range region. It suits me. It’s an unpretentious, generic, largely working-class suburb. We’re in a rambler/ranch/whatever you wanna call it, in a subdivision built-out in 1977, full of quite similar structures (ramblers and split-levels). It’s been...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There was a story in The New Yorker a few years back on this very topic. Back before backup cameras and automatic braking, suburban cul-de-sacs were among the likeliest places for little kids to get struck by cars. It was attributed to the youngsters being beneath the drivers’ rearward vision...
  5. tonyb

    Western, anyone?

    I apologize if I left you feeling snubbed. Shoot me a message or give a call, provided you still have any interest in that. Again, I apologize.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ People are likelier to have a driving mishap nearer home than farther away for a couple of reasons, the first being that’s where people do most of their driving, and, because familiarity fosters complacency. A person who has backed out of a driveway, or pulled into the nearby convenience...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes, and yes again. The overwhelming majority of my screwups, and those of my erstwhile role models, were born of impatience. It’s of a piece with “a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.” (There’s a reason cliches catch on.) I would hope that with advancing years people would get a...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I used a hammer and a screwdriver. Lucky I didn’t break the thing.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The big downside of old (real old) refrigerators is the need to defrost them. If you let it go too long between defrostings (as was the habit of just about everybody I knew back then) you had a bit of a mess on your hands.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I could see myself buying a door-in-door “smart” fridge that makes “craft” ice and has an ice water dispenser and all that *IF* I trusted it would last at least 20 trouble-free years. And even with such an assurance I might still hesitate. Refrigerators used to be good for a lifetime or more...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Just saw a TV ad for an LG refrigerator/freezer that makes “craft” ice. I just might need two of those.
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I’m no kind of musician, nor musicologist, but having just read the Wikipedia entry on “pop music” I’m left thinking you got it about right — it means pretty much whatever the speaker says it means. The Wikipedia take on it seems full of contradictions, what with citing among the genre’s...
  15. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I had long thought that “pop” was an all-encompassing abbreviation for “popular,” the stuff played on rock radio and country radio and “urban” radio, but now it seems it means something not quite that.
  16. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That’s seen something of a resurgence recently, leastwise in my circles. It’s commonly abbreviated “boho” when referring to interior decor and attire and other such superficial matters. A rug merchant friend, who also peddles vintage and antique furnishings, is all for it, of course. If it...
  17. tonyb

    No Matter How Much You Try You Cannot............

    A person can be completely honest about a particular matter in a particular moment, but I get your point. Whenever I hear “to be completely honest” I strongly suspect that whatever immediately follows will not be.
  19. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    “Shirttail relative.” I used the phrase myself today, but I’ve rarely heard anyone else use it in decades, it seems. I trust that most native American-English speakers would figure out its meaning from context.
  20. tonyb

    No Matter How Much You Try You Cannot............

    ... roller skate in a buffalo herd. (But you can be happy if you’ve a mind to.)
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ A person of my acquaintance has worked for not-for-profits. This person has also served on the boards of directors of other NFPs a time or two. In the search for cost savings during budget crunches a board member can expect to hear the executive director and perhaps other higher-up...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Where I live trash service is not mandatory, although almost everyone uses one of the three haulers operating here. It’s terribly inefficient, and hell on the roads, to have all those heavy garbage and recycling trucks going up and down the street two days of the week. But get this ... I pay...
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ It seems that every few weeks I get a solicitation from one undertaker or another. The ones offering cremation only do a lot of direct mail advertising.
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