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  1. HudsonHawk

    Why did we make ourselves into walking advertisements?

    Well, as a wise man once said, "it ain't over til it's over." We shall see how it turns out. On a side note, it's a common meme this week to point out how times have changed since the Cubs' last World Series championship, including the fact that two of the largest countries in the world at...
  2. HudsonHawk

    When Travel was Romantic

    That is a long trip. The longest I've made (door to door), and am currently on, is from Houston to Sumatra. It's about 12.5 hours from Houston to Moscow, about 1.5 hours in Moscow, then 10 hours to Singapore. After about 7 hours in Singapore (though if you have a choice of any airport in the...
  3. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have a jar of Mormon peanut butter in my pantry. It's pretty good peanut butter.
  4. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It mighta choked Artie, but it ain't gonna choke Stymie...
  5. HudsonHawk

    Autumnal Thoughts........

    Had a coworker in California explain on a conference call yesterday how they were getting ungodly amounts a rain...almost an inch! I thought...wow, a whole inch...almost enough to wet the grass. But in all seriousness, the rain in California is good. You guys need more of it.
  7. HudsonHawk

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Yesterday and today, I switched back to wearing straw, after two weeks of felt. It's been in the mid-upper 90s. Example # 1,368 of my heretical hat wearing ways.
  8. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I don't ever remember a time when people didn't express their political opinions. They just do it anonymously behind a keyboard now rather than marching in the streets.
  9. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There retailers who market a product carrying a well-established brand name, and which is "exclusive" to that retailer...only that particular model is not made by the established brand, but rather made by a cheap someone else, and the retailer has simply licensed the well established brand name...
  10. HudsonHawk

    School and college sports

    I can't help but be reminded of the masters/students rugby match scene in Monty Python's Meaning of Life:
  11. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Athletes as a "brand" is an interesting phenomenon, and it started with Michael Jordan. Athletes have been endorsing products since there have been athletes, everything from shaving cream to cigarettes to panty hose. But Nike and Jordan creating the distinctive Jordan brand was truly...
  13. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I had a small nightmare with "reverse branding" on my last tractor. It was green and yellow alright, but it was made by Yanmar specifically to be sold under the John Deere badge. The problem was years later both companies effectively disowned these models, JD saying "we didn't make that, it...
  14. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One of our favorite family stories between my sister and I is the only time we ever heard my father use the "F word". He was sitting behind the TV with the back panel off, trying to figure out which tubes to pull to go have tested. Of course the TV was plugged in, and my mother thought it the...
  15. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The thing I remember most about our local Western Auto was the tube tester they had near the front counter. I thought that was the coolest thing on the planet.
  16. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Western Auto also sold guitars under their "Truetone" label. They were made by Kay Musical Instruments out of Chicago, who also made guitars for Sears to be sold under their "Silvertone" label (as well as their own label). Like their cousins, old 60's era Truetone guitars are quite collectable...
  17. HudsonHawk

    School and college sports

    Speaking of sports and punishment...our baseball coach in high school would make us "run the fence". This consisted of starting at one corner of the outfield fence and sprinting to the first post along the chain-link fence, then sprinting back to the start...then sprinting to the second post...
  19. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It's a so-so space, but I have to admit I have one of the better views on the floor:
  20. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The building is literally the last building on the edge of downtown Houston, so if you're looking out the windows on one side of the building, all you see are the next buildings. But on the other side, it looks out over the rest of the city, and it's a nice view. Luckily, my office and the...
  21. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    We had a Rexall, and of course being in Florida, we had and Eckerd. My grandmother always insisted on going to the mom and pop drug store in Ybor City, Tampa's "Latin Quarter". She was a large, boisterous, red-haired dirt farmer, but for whatever reason, she never trusted a doctor or...
  22. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The things you learn around here. My building has what I guess are sort of modern oriel windows, though they are not supported by brackets or anything. But there is a small triangular window protruding from the exterior wall. It forms a point, and you can step into the small bay and you're...
  23. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've never heard the term "oriel window", so I had to look it up. We just called them "bay windows", though perhaps an oriel window is a specific type of bay window?

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