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I bought some archives of Huckleberry Hound a few years back needing some inspiration on how to roll with life and be chill.   Gave me a good laugh when life was a bit strained.

It's too bad Warner Brothers won't release the rest of them on DVD. Something about music rights apparently. Some of the musical cues came from a sound library that's apparently now cost prohibitive to license them from in order to release them on DVD.

It seems music rights have become a big pain in the arse in recent years. That's the reason why more and more of our favorite shows are either being chopped up or just not shown period anymore.

I'll never understand why people seem to think that DJs are these ultra-rare, never-gonna-find-another-one vehicles and price them ridiculously as a result.  It just doesn't make sense.  Maybe they're just waiting for the right sucker who doesn't know any better to come along?

Most DJs in Ohio got scrapped by the Postal Service as they decided to not sell them to the public like originally planned. The few survivors mostly got snapped up and run into the ground by rural carriers. Also, a pile of rust in Ohio is often considered worth at least $2500.

no low-ball offers.  I know what I have.

A Pizza Hut near me also moved to one of those small areas.  And the lady employee was a real snot.  The pizzas at Kwik Trip (Wisconsin) are becoming a bit better than Pizza Hut's. 

FWIW,  After being Great,  then experiencing a quality drop for a few years, The Godfather's here in town is Excellent once again!  I don't know if this is true nationwide, but if ya got a Godfather's, give it a shot...

Don't do that; there are other Pizza places. 

That article has huge inconsistencies:

- Only a division of IBM is Chinese owned.

- Most importantly, General Motors is still American and oly has a partnership with a Chinese company for now.

Still, China's economy appears to keep growing and some argue they've overthrown the USA as the new dominating superpower.

Oh, I take everything with a grain of salt, but it seems China can have a heavy influence on a company even when they have a small stake in it.

China's economy is 1/6 the size of the U.S. economy,  but they are huge...The world's second largest.

PS I'm picking up slack for new workers almost every night right now;  Although we also have hired a couple of good workers which is rare haha...

Giant Eagle doesn't seem to want to adjust their starting wage to compete for some reason. Even the regional brands are offering better. When Walmart and Aldi's can steamroll you on starting wages, you need to adapt!

Well I can relate.  At least in the past.

I see the work force out there, especially during CoVid in retail and you can tell the younger workers don't want to be there.

At my work, it is actually the older workers who are able to slack off, they are praised for being old, and they are afraid to get rid of them, especially when they are the right sex, more media popular race, and accelerated age.     All these buzzwords that will keep that person employed till the day they croak.  And if you call them out on them really not working, you are see as a terrible person.  LOL

I just salute them for playing the system, and hope I can play it as well when I'm a much older liability.   Or, I'll more than likely retire long before then, and THAT date is only a few years out.

I felt a bit tired today and I did not sleep good last night....Got up after 5 and a half hours...But mostly it was fine...tonight I'll probably sleep well :O)

Yeah the classic episodes had much better writting than production values, while the current ones are the total opposite...

I just finished the second half of The Faceless Ones on BBC America last night. Yes, the reconstructions have flaws, but better than nothing and I still liked it.

I patiently waited for the steel box version of The Faceless Ones, and I really enjoyed it. Their (BBC's) animated reconstructions are generally not region encoded, but what can trip people up in North America is the fact it is 25 fps, and some devices don't like that. PS4  is fine with it. I plan on getting Fury from the Deep soon.

Or they could just do what a lot of major AM stations have done and add HD Radio to their existing analogue AM signal.  Best of both worlds with coverage remaining good.

I really hope we never go to anything similar to DRM in this part of the world.  Every time I go back to visit family in Europe I'm appalled at how piss-poor radio reception has become as a result of that changeover.

AM here in Dallas used to have AM 770 that was a great 70's and 80's channel.  They opted to go to a religious format and became like 80% of the material on AM.   WBAP 1040 is good news.   A Korean channel.   Really not much of note on our AM dial now honestly.

^ That's the real issue, the content. You can thank big corporate radio for a lot of that among other issues.

Well,  Darn!   My car did something similar not too long ago...

Good old rust and corrosion setting in. Currently waiting for some place in town to actually get the right line in at the moment. Even the main brake shop was short on line for my van!

Also, I live just outside the delivery radius of most of the food places in town, so there's that too.

My earlier comment on said ordering wasn't even related to smartphones.  I only use the web sites.  I will not install a company's app under any circumstances.

I was making a comment on how some places advertise that you have to get online and let them know you have arrived in their parking lot.

I had a birthday party at the skating risk. One of my gifts was a K-tel Power Play album. Later during the party, my little brother fell and my mom broke her wrist trying not to fall on him (he was probably about 3 years old).

I never broke anything, but remember looking at the ceiling several times!

Sorry ta hear it...I just checked and our local skating rink (Roller City) is still Open!  I used to go there in 4th Grade (1977) and skate to Meco's Theme from Star Wars!  It had arcade games too, but I haven't been there since the 80's...I still remember our 6th grade class going there on a Wednesday night and almost everyone having to leave at 9PM, but my brother paid extra so I could stay til 11PM!

It's been suggested that the best way to interpret Star Trek V is to see it as Kirk's dream.  He spent an exhausting day in Yosemite climbing El Cap, he had lots of beans and booze, and then he fell asleep by the campfire.  If everything that happens after that happens only in his dreams, then the movie makes a lot more sense.

It's like Rocky V...it never really happened.

(In all seriousness, though, Shatner deserves more credit than he gets.  I don't find many issues with his direction, and the movie does manage to touch upon some big ideas and delivers some powerful moments.  The biggest problems were with the script, and as you say, an unusually fraught production.)

Drive Thrus rule!   Then ya can take the food home,  eat in front of the TV, and all is well in the world 

It's annoying when you go to a KFC as an example thinking there's a drive through and looking like there's a drive through to find out there's no drive through!

Here is my thing: I don't usually go fast food unless I am out and about or traveling somewhere. If I can only do drive thru, I will look for the nearest family restaurant or simply grab something at Speedway or Bell stores, which earns me points. The only take out I do at home is pizza!

Keep pressing them to solve your issue.  I know I had to when I was at work. 

Hopefully you can get one cheap from a wreckers.

Assuming you have comprehensive coverage on your insurance, that covers things like hit and runs and vandalism. Its deductible might be significantly lower than collision. Worth asking. Also, cameras are everywhere these days. This wasn't near a traffic light, was it?

re: near traffic light... sorry.. noticed you were in parking in a shopping plaza. Depending on the owner of that plaza, coverage for video might be limited.

Nice!   Where'd ya get it?

At a resale shop called The Exchange. It's a chain of stores that deal in resale of all types of media. Sadly, the old game stuff is getting thin anymore or pricey.

It's an excellent movie.

There is a clip from this movie in Bugs Bunny's RABBIT HOOD. "Nah that's silly, it couldn't be him."

I remember that Bugs Bunny short. It was neat how they integrated a scene from the actual film into it and it actually worked.

Love me some Fernando: 

Nice songs, almost always with a feeling of melancholy or isolation... ? with a deep feeling of a caring heart.?

Actually Frida is from Norway which would make ABBA 1/4th Norwegian?!

This seems pretty common.  I know Canon will periodically change their inkjet cartridges so you ultimately cannot find older ink and need to buy a newer printer.  The whole printer ink/toner business is obscene in terms of pricing and making it difficult to refill ink/toner yourself (which people wouldn't try to do as often if the ink/toner wasn't absolutely ridiculously priced). 

Can't see why they wouldn't....

Good catch.

I think that's only if you're sharing your items for sale in a group, not regular marketplace?

This was on the regular Marketplace. BTW, item sold already!

most of movies are now the same old movies being done over as well, they seem to gut out the story and place all kind of modern day commentary in it. It's not really entertainment, it's not even a semblance of the book or movie it came from... They're almost always touting the latest current event of the last 2 years and shoving it in your face, and down your throat...

so it's borish on all fronts and does nothing to entertain, excite your senses, or even give your logic and reasoning something to work with let alone complex enough to fire a single neuron.

It's basically a wasteland on television and the big screen. Very sad time for almost all media these days... I picked up the local paper, all the same crap the AP and whatever these wastes of space think will pass for news today, but worse in that the appearances of the articles are as if they're now written in crayon. Maybe that's their pointless way of making the garbage more palatable. Whatever happened to simply reporting what is or was... as opposed to whatever some creature thinks of what happened or worse yet, re-wording things in order to make whatever happened or was said mean the opposite of what happened or a person meant or said. Yeah it's 5000 feeds of a crap sandwich these days, all chained together... and it follow you around on your phone with little chance of actually selecting what it will force on you, even after changing the settings, notifications, blocking, thumbs down, etc... inevitably Apple or Samsung and their news app foists the garbage and entertainment suggestions on you.

I know what you mean. It was new and fresh back then.

It is the old joke, "1000 channels and nothing to watch."

I mostly find myself watching re-runs and such. Reliving epizodes of Married with Children and such. 

Either that or putting re-runs on as background noise while I code. It is just comforting. Though maybe I am just becoming an old curmudgeon. x3 Though at least back then for the most part everything was not trying to push some kind of agenda on me, it was just entertainment.

I got 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from -- Pink Floyd

Already??

Seems like ya just ordered it! 

I ordered it from a seller in Michigan, so it didn't take too long to get here to Ohio. Definitely an Album you want to set aside time to listen to all the way through.

Listened to two songs of his new album and yes, I like them, so will definitely order the album... (I like both "worlds" Shaw + DDY). Besides, I have three nice A8 drawings (not done by me!) of 1980s pop stars, one of them is DDY...