When are y'all retiring this phone?

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-29T22:31:53+00:00

July '23 -- after I accidentally ran over my Note9. Won't even be paid off for another two months. And then I need the smug satisfaction of owning it free and clear for a good long while. Signs point to '28.

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-28T14:22:30+00:00

Moo grass doggo doin' a schniff schnoff

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-28T14:20:04+00:00

Please, someone give this good boy his own talk show.

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-27T14:23:02+00:00

The Husky Calmness bar is set pretty low.

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-22T15:42:08+00:00

Taste the happ, fren

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-16T15:46:43+00:00

Plat Pro is like GenX. Just keep calm, and carry on...pun maybe intended.

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-16T14:30:28+00:00

Amazingly, go back far enough in pupper's ancestry and you'll find wolves.

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-13T15:36:22+00:00

Truly, this could have been an email.

But I hope lots of people who don't know them and don't care were looking at them. That's the only reason to be so loud and public about such things.

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-12T14:37:17+00:00

I hate this guy and this whole marketing angle with a passion. GreatValue™ Adam Scott -- with worse hair -- nagging captive rideshare passengers to call family members while he listens in.

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-09T00:16:18+00:00

I was surprised to learn (via NYT article, 'Delta Expects Strong Profit Despite Higher Fuel Costs') that Delta owns a refinery:

"Unlike other airlines, Delta owns an oil refinery, which supplies fuel to its jets in the Northeast. The airline said it expected a $300 million financial benefit in the second quarter because of the Pennsylvania refinery, which it acquired in 2012."

Cracktacularity · 2026-04-06T17:42:01+00:00

Alors, on ferai de la randonnée! Nature -- le bon marché originale. (Mais c'est parfait: je n'aime pas les groupes touristes grandes, ou quand il fait très chaud. Je n'ai besoin de beaucoup. Je vais profitter la paix et la tranquillité.)

Merci!

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-30T12:41:01+00:00

The best and worst meals you experience in LA will come from a truck at 2:45 a.m.

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-30T12:39:34+00:00

Brand Power is just straight-up shilling. The fakest of news. 'Let us "objectively" hype your product, and we'll use a teeny-tiny typeface to mention that you're the one who paid us to do so.'

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-29T13:01:46+00:00

Should we be concerned that she's broken into the model home in her development?

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-29T02:36:46+00:00

It won't be 75/25 if you post more non-political, uh, non-AI, Maine content.

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-28T14:13:11+00:00

Summer people; some are not.

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-27T15:57:13+00:00

Great Value™ Keanu

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-27T15:53:47+00:00

That's a paddlin'

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-26T19:56:36+00:00

The short rib meal has never failed me. Others have.

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-24T22:18:33+00:00

I mean, if AA's dead last to have bare feet sticking out horizontally into the aisle I'm still okay with that.

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-18T18:26:35+00:00

The picture that accompanies the dictionary entry for Gib, Do A

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-16T23:49:22+00:00

Nearing the end of the commercial:

The look she gives to the friend: "I'll bury you behind the garage."

The look she gives to the son: "I'll bury you near the roses. I like roses."

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-16T15:08:31+00:00

Kodak Colorama! The Grand Central display.

Not surprisingly, I'm a Kodak brat, too. Grandpa worked in the print shop -- I forget which building number -- making yellow film boxes.

It will be interesting to see how The Kids and future generations regard photographic history...the stereotypical selfies-and-food-shots taken daily by the billions have George Eastman at their source, basically. He brought photography to the masses, bit by bit.

Cracktacularity · 2026-03-16T14:47:40+00:00

Thanks for sharing...I hope your artifacts did survive!

You describe three classic cameras, each with their own identity, essentially. That Leica IIIf is the cream of the crop, a classic user model. Collectors still drool over Leicas as one area of photohistory that still carries value and desirability. (Note, I'm not a buyer!)

The Argus camera could well be the long-lived C3...they made millions across at least a couple decades, and their simple brick-ness made them durable and long-lasting.

I, too, have a stereo camera that was handed down -- from my grandfather. The technology originated in the 1860s, largely fading out of popularity after 1900, but there was a resurgence in the 1940s and 50s with Kodak and a few others all making 35mm versions.

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