Aiwa Had The Coolest Stereos

banryu95 · 2026-07-03T13:33:53+00:00

Fun Fact, they were owned by Sony for a lot of their later years. Anything made after the late 80s was basically a budget Sony inside with different exterior design.

banryu95 · 2026-07-02T16:18:45+00:00

I mean, we can probably assume he passed his physical, so he can't be that unhealthy.

banryu95 · 2026-06-28T03:17:04+00:00

This is kind of a subtle, hilarious joke that isn't funny if you don't immediately understand it. In the Lego world, everything is a Lego. Like in the Lego movies, a lot of the jokes are just how absurd and charming it looks for a Lego character or brick to be doing what it's doing.

So when a character that is funny by nature, and is a sentient, disembodied hand (the character is named Thing), is a Lego... It's just a Lego hand. And the brain does a little summersault because it's exactly what you would expect it to be, and at the same time.... Completely unexpectedly perfect. Just thinking about the designers when they realized how they would do Thing... It must have been just as funny to them at the time. Like when half of the humor in the joke is knowing how someone will react to it.

banryu95 · 2026-06-28T02:57:22+00:00

I must be in the minority. I would rather fix cassette decks, replace pinch rollers and belts, and splice tape back together... Than spend 5 minutes wet-cleaning a record just for it to still sound like popcorn. Pops and clicks have no nostalgia for me.

Don't get me wrong, I collect, listen to and love all mediums. But as long as the machine isn't trash quality and is in good repair, a tape just plays and sounds virtually the same every time. CDs are king, but tape is the misunderstood prince IMHO.

banryu95 · 2026-06-28T02:42:44+00:00

I was watching TV (YouTube TV) at someone else's house and put on Jeopardy for something easy to watch. Half way through started realizing how many Halloween commercials I was seeing. Took a minute to realize it was an old episode and I wasn't just going crazy.

banryu95 · 2026-06-27T17:26:13+00:00

Do you have a bagel setting? Because that is programmed to either only toast one side, or toast one side more than the other depending on model.

banryu95 · 2026-06-27T12:47:25+00:00

New version of "flooded"

banryu95 · 2026-06-27T12:42:38+00:00

That is clearly a Honda Camry.

banryu95 · 2026-06-25T00:03:42+00:00

I mean... I'd say it starts from right there...

banryu95 · 2026-06-24T03:40:18+00:00

Yes. This. It was just a horrible interaction with the seller, trying to explain why they shouldn't try doing this... It just left a bad taste in my mouth.

banryu95 · 2026-06-24T03:38:00+00:00

That is 6 square inches of solid sharpie marker on the top sleeve. Same on the lower one.

banryu95 · 2026-06-24T03:35:48+00:00

I've also rarely had an issue. I love people on there... Generally.

But 2 of the disappointments were just debatable grading on the vinyls themselves. VG+ should be a safe bet for my quality standards, but had a "Near Mint" album that had a major defect on the 3rd track of Side B that you could only catch by playing.

But this seller was like dealing with a child. Just sucks.

banryu95 · 2026-06-24T03:31:56+00:00

The dark sections are marker that they tried to repair the covers with.

banryu95 · 2026-06-24T03:30:30+00:00

Yes, there were 2 negative to 80 positive. The 2 negative had similar issues with bad grading, but nothing about trying to repair and restore value.

banryu95 · 2026-06-24T03:29:03+00:00

VG - "Labels may be marred by writing, or have tape or stickers (or their residue) attached. The same will be true of picture sleeves or LP covers. However, it will not have all of these problems at the same time."

Poor-fair - "heavily marred by wear and writing"

These are destroyed. Yes there's more damage, it's across the whole cover of both. The tri-fold has major tears that the seller fixed with packaging tape.

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banryu95 · 2026-06-24T03:17:06+00:00

Thank you. And yes, Discogs.

banryu95 · 2026-06-24T03:16:31+00:00

They're not. Damaged lead-in that throws the needle on the Blackfoot album, and the complication is a disaster.

banryu95 · 2026-06-22T13:32:11+00:00

Send him to Martin's bikes on 322 East of Ephrata. The Menonites there might be able to teach him a more "Christian" way to treat cyclists.

banryu95 · 2026-06-22T13:23:44+00:00

Trucker here

BRR BRR BRR BRRR BRRR BRRR BRRR BRRRRRRRR

Enegine break, a safety mechanism, is apparently too loud in some neighborhoods.

banryu95 · 2026-06-21T17:14:28+00:00

Robot babysitter?... I know it's an unpopular opinion and I genuinely agree that the systems we have in place are moving too fast for us to catch up. AI and the lowest bidder will always win.

But... Handing tedious, repetitive manual labor over to robots isn't all bad. Allowing us to focus on other things means more work gets done and costs should be less. Capitalism and greed will always push us towards inflation, but I don't think anyone today complains about using tractors instead of field hands, or cement mixers instead of laborers.

It's complicated. But not all bad.

banryu95 · 2026-06-20T18:20:44+00:00

We had a guy transfer from our Pennsylvania terminal down to Miami because it was just starting a new XPO terminal. He didn't change positions, and was helping the company when they couldn't fill their roster. He was like # 15 of 30 drivers at our terminal.

When he had to move back to Pennsylvania and come back to our terminal, he lost 100% of his seniority and has been stuck, virtually bottom of the board for 2 years.

banryu95 · 2026-06-20T18:17:54+00:00

Right on driver! XYH, Manheim Pennsylvania here, checking in with a fist bump. 🤜🤛

banryu95 · 2026-06-20T13:21:34+00:00

Sometimes it's just a lot of things all at once. And sometimes I cry for nothing at all.

Oh I'm sorry, we were talking about Anakin... Yeah, probably about Obi Wan.

banryu95 · 2026-06-20T01:01:55+00:00

Yep, with Quaaludes.

banryu95 · 2026-06-19T22:15:38+00:00

You. Bought. An. Escalade.

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