Maybe, maybe not. What other country has commercial, private or corporate space companies?
That said, the shuttle has a special place in my heart. I'm old enough to have been around for the entire history of space travel; I remember as a kid how Sputnik scared the hell out of all the adults. I remember the Apollo fire and how everyone was afraid it was the end of the space program. I watched the first moon landing on TV. I remember Apollo 13 and how nobody thought the astronauts were going to get back home.
I was working at Disney World when the first shuttles flew. I saw most of them from Orlando, a night launch from my mom's house in Tampa, and a couple at the Cape. The first one we saw up close my oldest daughter was about three months old. Had we known how loud the shuttle was we would have left her with my mom.
In fact, I saw every shuttle launch until we moved back to Illinois. The first launch I mot only didn't see in person I missed completely -- I was out looking for work.
It was the Challenger, and it exploded over the Atlantic. Leila was just a baby, she's 26 now. Patty wasn't even born yet. It's funny, I don't feel any older now than I did when Apollo 13 had its accident.
Even though I'm 59 I still hold out hope I'll get to go to space someday. My grandmother was born about six months before the Wright brothers took off from Kittie Hawk, and she flew in commercial airliners and saw the moon landing and the shuttle flights (she died in 2003 at age 99).
I envy you young people. You can't imagine the changes the world will go through in your lives. When I was 14 and Star Trek came out, the communicators, door that opened by themselves, flat screen computers, McCoy's sick bay, were all unrealistic fantasies, but reality has actually surpassed fantasy.
I'm in the US so my perspective is probably off for this, but After digital TV broadcasting I'd be dead-set against this sort of thing here. The switch to digital TV was full of empty promises that were perhaps outright lies. Digital cable is great, but digital over the air is horrible.
Before the switch I had about a dozen stations I could pick up here in Springfield. Now there are four, one of which is a stupid shopping channel (i.e., the "shows" are just commercials), one is nothing but country western music videos. That really leaves me only two stations. I could get a clear analog picture from the Decatur station, now I can't get channel 17 or 49 at all (49 shows up in the channel search but I can never pick it up).
Some of the stations I used to get were "snowy" and didn't always have color, but they were watchable. Occasionally the local stations had ghosting, but they were watchable, too. Now there's either a crystal-clear picture or a message "no signal" when there's the slightest waver in the signal.
If they were to try to replace analog FM radio here, which is a tiny spectrum compared to TV; the entire FM dial sits between UHF channels 6 and 7, I'd be livid. It would necessitate all new equipment, which wouldn't be bad in the living room because I already listen to mostly internet stations anyway (my computer's sound card is plugged into the big stereo in the living room), but what about the car?
The sociopathic greed of today's corporations disgusts me, and the fact that they seem to own the federal government lock, stock, and barrel disgusts me even more.
And, to be fair, a lot of women my age unknowingly (no near vision so they can't see them) wear mustaches, especially ones with anscestors from certain parts of the globe.
Someone (my daughter, I think) left some of those five bladed razors at my house. I found them actually less effective than the cheapos. The only trouble with the buck a dozen razors is the one in five that isn't very sharp, but at that price you can just trash them.
She left some ladies' disposable single blades there, and I was surprised to find that they were way better than the men's disposables! Smaller, easier to control, especially shaving under the bottom lip and by the ears.
But I guess the YMMV variable comes into play here; I have fine hair. If you're black or Italian or oterwise have coarse hair, the cheap ones might not do the trick.
I've been putting all my old VCR tapes on DVD and records and cassettes on CD lately. You can't tell the DVDs or cassettes from the tapes they were recorded from, but you can tell the difference between the CDs and the LPs they came from. Not a big difference, mind you, but the aliasing is audible, even to my old ears.
Yeah, you need a good pair of scizzors to trim it, too. Luckily I knew a woman who was a beautician who gave me one. As to the cost, I just get the dollar a dozen Bics. I can afford the five or six bucks a year.
I was thirty before I could grow even a halfway decent beard.
My dad always used a straight razor (don't know if he still does), and he sharpened it with a razor strap every time he used it. Of course, he was a stickler for sharp blades, you can shave with one of his pocket knives. But I don't see how a straight razor would hold an edge longer than a safety razor. A cheap disposable, yes, I'm sure they use the cheapest steel on the market.
I have a goatee. Used to have a full beard (and hadn't been laid in three years) but a woman in a bar suggested I cut it into a goatee, so I did an informal survey of women 18 to 70. When asked "should I cut my beard into a goatee" sixteen out of seventeen said "yes". The one "no" was standing next to her boyfriend, who had a full beard. Ever since I have no trouble at all getting women. Apparently, looking and sounding like you have more than three brain cells turns women off.
I don't know what it is about a goatee that attracts the ladies, but they seem to love it. But I only shave my cheeks and neck twice a week; they seem to like the stubble, too.
Maybe a beard made me look too intellectual, especially when I wore glasses, and I have a bad habit of using words that aren't in normal people's vocabularies. I've been trying to not do that most of my life, but it isn't easy.
I had that pointed out the other day talking about electronics at my girlfriend's apartment. The woman who lives upstairs from her asked Kathie "did you understand any of that?" Kathie said "No, when he talks over her head I just ignore it."
Wow, I haven't had a slide rule since about 1970. I probably wouldn't even remember how to use it, although I do remember they were pretty easy to use. faster than a digital calculator and didn't need batteries. And you could use them outside.
The point of a cell phone isn't to tell time, that's just an added benefit/ The point is to make phone calls, especially since pay phones are obsolete. I live by myself, why would I want a landline when I can have my phone in my pocket, cheaper than a landline, and use it whenever I want? But since I do have a phone in my pocket, why would I need a watch?
Douglas Adams is laughing his ass off at you despite being dead.
Five bladed modern disposable? FIVE BLADED MODERN DISPOSABLE??? LOL!!!!!
Those expensive five bladed disposables don't shave any closer than a dollar a dozen bics. I'm afraid you've been hoodwinked by the advertisers, son. The fact is, if the blade's sharp the shave's the same whether it's a fifty dollar straight razor, a twenty dollar safety razor, a ten dollar five pack of five blade disposables, or a dollar a dozen bics. All of them will cut the whiskers to the skin, any closer and your skin will peel off.
I'll bet you buy Alieve instead of generic naproxin, too, don't you?
Besides, you do realize that shaving your whole face is kinda gay anyway, don't you? You're removing a secondary sexual characteristic. The difference between shaving and a radical mastectomy is tits don't grow back. Leave a mustache, at least (unless your closet lesbian wife makes you shave)
it's people borrowing symbols from a time when "men were men" -- a way for men to assert their masculinity in a way that they see as intelligent and sophisticated, rather than uncultured or brutish.
Then explain those effeminate earrings and brutish tattoos? If you have to take on some fake accessories to show yourself as masculine or sophisticated and intelligent, you're neither.
Why can't you young fellows have the balls to just be who you are?
Safety razors are definitely better than disposables.
For what? I've found (and it took me five decades to discover this) that women love a goatee and stubble. The stubble makes it look like you're not looking for women. And if not for the women, why bother shaving at all?
You don't have a cell phone? I never saw a cell phone without a built in clock. Admit it, you just want to look illogically kewl like the rest of the kids.
Pros: you don't have to spend a dollar for a dozen of them four times a year ($4 per year). If you slip and nick your jugular you'll never have to shave again.
Cons: they cost like fifty bucks apiece You have to have a razor strap to sharpen it every time you use it (takes a while) If you slip and nick your jugular vein your wife and mortician will have a mess to clean up.
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Yeah, PayPal is going to replace cash, sure. They were saying the same thing about credit cards fifty years ago.
Maybe, maybe not. What other country has commercial, private or corporate space companies?
That said, the shuttle has a special place in my heart. I'm old enough to have been around for the entire history of space travel; I remember as a kid how Sputnik scared the hell out of all the adults. I remember the Apollo fire and how everyone was afraid it was the end of the space program. I watched the first moon landing on TV. I remember Apollo 13 and how nobody thought the astronauts were going to get back home.
I was working at Disney World when the first shuttles flew. I saw most of them from Orlando, a night launch from my mom's house in Tampa, and a couple at the Cape. The first one we saw up close my oldest daughter was about three months old. Had we known how loud the shuttle was we would have left her with my mom.
In fact, I saw every shuttle launch until we moved back to Illinois. The first launch I mot only didn't see in person I missed completely -- I was out looking for work.
It was the Challenger, and it exploded over the Atlantic. Leila was just a baby, she's 26 now. Patty wasn't even born yet. It's funny, I don't feel any older now than I did when Apollo 13 had its accident.
Even though I'm 59 I still hold out hope I'll get to go to space someday. My grandmother was born about six months before the Wright brothers took off from Kittie Hawk, and she flew in commercial airliners and saw the moon landing and the shuttle flights (she died in 2003 at age 99).
I envy you young people. You can't imagine the changes the world will go through in your lives. When I was 14 and Star Trek came out, the communicators, door that opened by themselves, flat screen computers, McCoy's sick bay, were all unrealistic fantasies, but reality has actually surpassed fantasy.
I'm in the US so my perspective is probably off for this, but After digital TV broadcasting I'd be dead-set against this sort of thing here. The switch to digital TV was full of empty promises that were perhaps outright lies. Digital cable is great, but digital over the air is horrible.
Before the switch I had about a dozen stations I could pick up here in Springfield. Now there are four, one of which is a stupid shopping channel (i.e., the "shows" are just commercials), one is nothing but country western music videos. That really leaves me only two stations. I could get a clear analog picture from the Decatur station, now I can't get channel 17 or 49 at all (49 shows up in the channel search but I can never pick it up).
Some of the stations I used to get were "snowy" and didn't always have color, but they were watchable. Occasionally the local stations had ghosting, but they were watchable, too. Now there's either a crystal-clear picture or a message "no signal" when there's the slightest waver in the signal.
If they were to try to replace analog FM radio here, which is a tiny spectrum compared to TV; the entire FM dial sits between UHF channels 6 and 7, I'd be livid. It would necessitate all new equipment, which wouldn't be bad in the living room because I already listen to mostly internet stations anyway (my computer's sound card is plugged into the big stereo in the living room), but what about the car?
The sociopathic greed of today's corporations disgusts me, and the fact that they seem to own the federal government lock, stock, and barrel disgusts me even more.
I would love one of those! "Calling Dick Tracey!"
Most women (that is, in my experience. YMMV).
And, to be fair, a lot of women my age unknowingly (no near vision so they can't see them) wear mustaches, especially ones with anscestors from certain parts of the globe.
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Never heard of that one. How would an earring help your vision?
I'm waiting until we all have flying cars. They're bound to be safer because flying is much safer, right?
LOL! Loved that one!
Yep, that's the quote I was thinking of.
Someone (my daughter, I think) left some of those five bladed razors at my house. I found them actually less effective than the cheapos. The only trouble with the buck a dozen razors is the one in five that isn't very sharp, but at that price you can just trash them.
She left some ladies' disposable single blades there, and I was surprised to find that they were way better than the men's disposables! Smaller, easier to control, especially shaving under the bottom lip and by the ears.
But I guess the YMMV variable comes into play here; I have fine hair. If you're black or Italian or oterwise have coarse hair, the cheap ones might not do the trick.
I've been putting all my old VCR tapes on DVD and records and cassettes on CD lately. You can't tell the DVDs or cassettes from the tapes they were recorded from, but you can tell the difference between the CDs and the LPs they came from. Not a big difference, mind you, but the aliasing is audible, even to my old ears.
Yeah, you need a good pair of scizzors to trim it, too. Luckily I knew a woman who was a beautician who gave me one. As to the cost, I just get the dollar a dozen Bics. I can afford the five or six bucks a year.
I was thirty before I could grow even a halfway decent beard.
My dad always used a straight razor (don't know if he still does), and he sharpened it with a razor strap every time he used it. Of course, he was a stickler for sharp blades, you can shave with one of his pocket knives. But I don't see how a straight razor would hold an edge longer than a safety razor. A cheap disposable, yes, I'm sure they use the cheapest steel on the market.
True, but nothing like the British. Certainly not enough to warrant losing any sleep over, let alone spending billions to prevent.
I have a goatee. Used to have a full beard (and hadn't been laid in three years) but a woman in a bar suggested I cut it into a goatee, so I did an informal survey of women 18 to 70. When asked "should I cut my beard into a goatee" sixteen out of seventeen said "yes". The one "no" was standing next to her boyfriend, who had a full beard. Ever since I have no trouble at all getting women. Apparently, looking and sounding like you have more than three brain cells turns women off.
I don't know what it is about a goatee that attracts the ladies, but they seem to love it. But I only shave my cheeks and neck twice a week; they seem to like the stubble, too.
Maybe a beard made me look too intellectual, especially when I wore glasses, and I have a bad habit of using words that aren't in normal people's vocabularies. I've been trying to not do that most of my life, but it isn't easy.
I had that pointed out the other day talking about electronics at my girlfriend's apartment. The woman who lives upstairs from her asked Kathie "did you understand any of that?" Kathie said "No, when he talks over her head I just ignore it."
Ain't easy being a nerd, is it?
Wow, I haven't had a slide rule since about 1970. I probably wouldn't even remember how to use it, although I do remember they were pretty easy to use. faster than a digital calculator and didn't need batteries. And you could use them outside.
Hmmm, I may get a new one...
OMG, ten seconds! Well worth that fifty bucks for a watch!
=)
The point of a cell phone isn't to tell time, that's just an added benefit/ The point is to make phone calls, especially since pay phones are obsolete. I live by myself, why would I want a landline when I can have my phone in my pocket, cheaper than a landline, and use it whenever I want? But since I do have a phone in my pocket, why would I need a watch?
Douglas Adams is laughing his ass off at you despite being dead.
Oh my GOD I gotta get outta here before I die laughing! You guys are too much!
Am I the only one here that wears a beard, you sissies? ROFLMAO!!!!
Five bladed modern disposable? FIVE BLADED MODERN DISPOSABLE??? LOL!!!!!
Those expensive five bladed disposables don't shave any closer than a dollar a dozen bics. I'm afraid you've been hoodwinked by the advertisers, son. The fact is, if the blade's sharp the shave's the same whether it's a fifty dollar straight razor, a twenty dollar safety razor, a ten dollar five pack of five blade disposables, or a dollar a dozen bics. All of them will cut the whiskers to the skin, any closer and your skin will peel off.
I'll bet you buy Alieve instead of generic naproxin, too, don't you?
Besides, you do realize that shaving your whole face is kinda gay anyway, don't you? You're removing a secondary sexual characteristic. The difference between shaving and a radical mastectomy is tits don't grow back. Leave a mustache, at least (unless your closet lesbian wife makes you shave)
it's people borrowing symbols from a time when "men were men" -- a way for men to assert their masculinity in a way that they see as intelligent and sophisticated, rather than uncultured or brutish.
Then explain those effeminate earrings and brutish tattoos? If you have to take on some fake accessories to show yourself as masculine or sophisticated and intelligent, you're neither.
Why can't you young fellows have the balls to just be who you are?
Safety razors are definitely better than disposables.
For what? I've found (and it took me five decades to discover this) that women love a goatee and stubble. The stubble makes it look like you're not looking for women. And if not for the women, why bother shaving at all?
You don't have a cell phone? I never saw a cell phone without a built in clock. Admit it, you just want to look illogically kewl like the rest of the kids.
Well, since the topic is "retro" here's a lumberjack song that's over a hundred years old iinm:
As I sat down one evening,
'twas in a small cafe
A forty year old waitress
To me these words did say:
"Well, I see that you are a logger
And not just a common bum
'cause nobody but a logger
Stirs his coffee with his thumb.
"My lover was a logger,
There's none like him today.
If you poured whiskey on it
He would eat a bail of hay
"Well, he never shaved his whiskers
From off of his horny hide
He'd just drive them in with a hammer
And bite them off inside.
"My lover came to see me
One cold and freezing day.
He held me in his fond embrace
And broke three vertebrae!
"He kissed me when he parted
so hard that he broke my jaw;
I could not speak to tell him
He'd forgot his mackinaw.
"The weather, it tried to freeze him.
It tried its level best.
At a hundred degrees below zero,
He buttoned up his vest.
"It froze clean down to China
And up to the stars above.
At a thousand degrees below zero
It froze my logger love.
"And so I lost my lover
And to this cafe I come
And here I wait 'til someone
Stirs his coffee with his thumb."
Pros: you don't have to spend a dollar for a dozen of them four times a year ($4 per year).
If you slip and nick your jugular you'll never have to shave again.
Cons: they cost like fifty bucks apiece
You have to have a razor strap to sharpen it every time you use it (takes a while)
If you slip and nick your jugular vein your wife and mortician will have a mess to clean up.
You kids are hilarious!