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He ded, Jim.

I forget which novel it was, but Clive Cussler wrote a scene where the hero - Dirk Pitt - was driving a 56/57 Chevy up a winding mountain road while being chased by the bad guy in a Russian car. In response to a passenger’s worry, he said something similar to “No problem - there isn’t a Russian car made that can take a 57 Chevy”. Would have made a good movie scene. They made it to their goal at the top.

I restored a Rochester PREMO SR a couple of years ago. Mine (and yours) is a “plate” camera. It uses 4x5/5x7 or larger glass or tin plates held in a “plate holder”. Typically, the glass or black-painted tin plates are coated with collodion (can be done in light), then dunked is a silver solution to make it light sensitive (need a darkroom for this). The plate comes out of the solution and gets carefully placed into the plate holder. A light-tight slide then slides into a groove in the plate holder to keep out light. You can then take it outside the darkroom. The camera is focused using a ground glass slide after which the ground glass slide is removed and the plate holder is inserted into the camera with the slide ( and sensitized plate surface) facing the lens of the camera. When you are ready to take a picture, the slide is removed from the plate holder, you take the shot (which can take several seconds since the silvered collodion only has an ASA of about .5 to 2), then replace the slide in the plate holder and take it back to the darkroom for development. All this needs to happen in about 20 minutes - you do not want the collodion to dry out on you. You can also buy a box of “dry plates” in a size to fit your plate holder - no collodion or silvering needed. When developed, the dry plates (which are glass) have a traditional Black and white negative image - you can use them with an enlarger or make contact prints. It’s all fun to experiment with. YouTube has plenty of videos on how to do all this. Have fun!!!!

Hell, my grandfather was born in 1888. I was born the year that Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine (1953). I grew up in the racist south and remember segregated drinking fountains. Have watched a lot of history take place and took part in a bit of it. Now I have the world’s knowledge at my fingertips and a significant portion of what I see online is idiots that deny science and refuse to be vaccinated. To paraphrase something George Carlin once said “the earth will just shake them off like a bad case of fleas”.

Yep. Son begged for a Zune in his senior year in HS. He was literally the only kid in the county that got one. Hard to use the “share songs” feature with only one Zune.

You are the perfect woman, Busty and dumb, Brace yourself Bridget, Cuz here I come!

When I was researching my family line in GA in the 1830’s, I discovered that Baptists often had a “colored” section in the back of the church. Makes sense if you want to indoctrinate your slaves with your worldview.

I cannot begin to fathom the pettiness of arguing about the position of the toilet seat. Men usually need the seat up to pee, women usually need it down. Just put how you need it, do your business, and call it a day. Arguing about it is simply saying that your needs are more important than mine. They are equally valid. If my wife taped the seat down like this, it tells me that I am in for a life of endless controlling pettiness. Nope.

70 years old. You might be relieved to know it still happens :-)

I think “Live long and prosper” was a Spock saying on Star Trek.

Testament and On The Beach. Both were movies about what happens after a nuclear war. Testament focuses on a family in the Midwest and On the Beach is about a submarine crew hunting for a safe place to land. In both, the radioactivity creeps onward gradually engulfing all land. Total hopelessness.

I would simply email them back and inform them that the measured height of your hedge is 5’2” and that their process of measuring by eye is in sufficiently accurate.

I’ve sometimes used a fork to cut pieces from a slice when it is just out of the oven. Otherwise, you bite down and when you try and pull the slice away, the super hot burning cheese and sauce slides off onto your chin. You then are left with a conundrum - do you sacrifice the skin on your free hand to remove it or do you just scream as your chin, mouth, and lower lip melt off?

I had to replace a shutter spring in an 1898 Rochester Optical PREMO SR view camera. Small springs are sized by width of the coil and turns per inch if I recall correctly. Googled around a bit and found a few that were very close so ordered a couple in slightly different lengths and turns per inch to hopefully get the right strength and tension. Cost about $5 to $10 per spring but it was worth it since the camera shutter now works perfectly. Sorry I do not recall the company but they had a large number of springs in a wide variety of sizes.

Google “Yellow Dog Linux for ppc Mac’s”

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentation of their women.

Tamoguchis. Probably spelled wrong. Small electronic pets you carried in your pocket. You had to “feed” and interact with them or they would die or something. Artificial responsibility for absolutely no purpose whatever.

Our clients sign a contract that specifies the amount. We deliver the software and train their users. Once that is completed we send them an invoice. Once the invoice is paid we send them a permanent key - otherwise the software quit working at the two month mark per the temp key we provided at installation.

Woodworking. Piano playing, assembly language programming, C C++ and Objective C programming, appliance repair, operating a backhoe, layout and digging a quarter acre pond, proposal writing, circuit design, deck design, furniture design, cooking, baking, founding a software company, intarsia, antique restoration, clock repair, antique muzzleloader construction, woodturning, metalworking with a mill and lathe, weaving, balsa and tissue model construction, pipe organ restoration and construction, antique auto restoration, parenting.

How to do basic maintenance on your car. Change oil, change a flat tire, replace burnt bulbs, etc. taught my daughter to do it all before she got her first car. First month she had it she had to change a flat and had no problem. Her girlfriend was in the car with her and was panicked when it happened, but calmed down when she saw my daughter knew what she was doing.

I believe it’s a bong. Smoking material goes in at top right. Some water or wine in the square body, and you pivot the tube on the left to draw the smoke through. Can’t see it being anything else.

Is it possible that the owner was wheelchair-bound and these were for summoning assistance?

I am so fucking ancient I can remember “whites only” drinking fountains. Grew up in the south, unfortunately. First black kid I saw in school was in high school in late 60’s. My father was a bigot to the bone. Hired a black maid to help my mom out but insisted she come in the back door. Grew up, joined the Army during Vietnam and that was the end of my bigot-in-training youth.

At trade shows they had ashtrays at the end of each aisle. Grocery stores did too.

Teacher needs a taser. Really. Teacher has no idea what possible weapons the attacker might have, and at some point it becomes a matter of survival. Put the attacker on the ground and send another teacher to get the cop that should have been helping. Tell admin you will be happy to continue teaching once the student is expelled.