Charlie

I use 30 seconds at power 3 for my ice cream.

I was also living in London in the winter of '74, so maybe it was '75.

Thanks, but VCRs are too hi-tech for me.😉

They are obviously just mugging for the camera--he has barely inserted the glans.

THANK YOU!!! It worked. Unfortunately, I still can't make the tray move on its own. It's an old machine, and he doesn't do anything to take care of it, so I think it is time to get a new one. At least we got the disc back; it's part of a series from the Great Courses titled (ironically!) "Epic Engineering Failures."🤔

Climate change: I don't remember ever experiencing temperatures below freezing in London.

Anyone have a quick trick to get it to eject a disc? My spouse had been watching one, but at the end it would not open to disgorge the disc. Both the player and the TV are Samsung, but he can't find any of the written materials on them, and since he has Alzheimer's, he doesn't remember how to do anything. I have never used a DVD, and I can't figure out what to do. (The disc is not pornographic.)

I can't believe that no one has mentioned that the act protecting same sex marriage passed last night.

I recently grumbled after losing a board game, "It's time for me to take my marbles and go home," something my father usually said when he was tired of doing something. No one else at the table knew what I meant.

I recently stayed at a hotel in which the design of the toilet seat caused my junk to land in the water when I sat down. I mentioned the problem in my Yelp review, though I didn't go into specific detail.

Before anyone asks, I see a '58 Ford and '47 or '48 Pontiac in the background.

My phone silences calls from anyone who is not in my contacts list, and I can't imagine that there is anyone in my contacts who would call me during the night without a very good reason.

I just finished Vaclav Smil's How the World Really Works, and it is one of the most enlightening books I have ever read, since it succinctly explains exactly what the subtitle says: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going. Smil recognizes a truism of human nature, that most people want a simple answer to how to solve an extremely complex problem, in this case global warming and its consequences, and shows why the simple answers--like persuading everyone to switch to driving electric vehicles--don't work. He points out that there are other simple answers that would actually have much more impact--like banning the production of anything made with plastic, or making raising of meat for food a worldwide criminal offense--that are obviously impossible. The modern world as we know it is totally dependent on the utilization of fossil fuels, and will be until far into the future, since we can't give up electricity, steel, air transportation and fertilizers for growing food, all of which are heavily dependent on the burning of fossil fuels, without radically altering our global economy and lifestyles in ways that few people will put up with. It is not a particularly long book, but every paragraph is packed with facts. It also demands that the reader have a high tolerance for statistical analysis, because the book is loaded with math, with many references to subjects measured in things like terabytes and gigajoules. (For those who need it, there is a whole chapter devoted to explaining the mathematical terminology.) There are also 71 pages of footnotes and references for everything covered in the text. Since I used to teach a course in writing research papers, I am a sucker for footnotes and bibliographies, but even if you skip over them, you will learn a lot.

Jankovic and Rios actually made slam finals, they just didn't win one.

Wasn't the historical Casanova a top?

I am attracted to male body parts that are hairy, so unless there is a lot of bush, the penis is not of particular interest to me. And I am a card-carrying homosexual.

Too many people only think about food at Thanksgiving and Xmas, but people need to eat all year round. The money I used to spend on escorts I now give to two local food banks every month.

Yeah, I saw that one, too.

Yes, I did see that movie. I still thought the bars were safer than the streets as a place to pick up guys.

I grew up thinking that gay bars were the safest places to find someone to go home with. What a different world it's become.

I use Avast VPN, but I'm getting tired of the constant pop-ups promoting other Avast products.

One of the best known of all professional tennis coaches, and one of the only ones in the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, has died at 91. Many of his famous pupils are in the Hall of Fame with him, and several more will be as soon as they are eligible for induction.

The Ramrod was the site of a notorious attack by a psychotic former cop, who shot several men outside the bar one night in 1980. Two people were killed and several wounded, including a friend of mine who was lightly wounded.

Thanks. I new it was a Chevy, but I couldn't think of the model. Something kept distracting me.

Every time I look at that photo, I draw a blank on the car, but I keep staring and staring....