Yes! My wife and I have her parent's electric popcorn popper that's just a heated metal bowl with glass lid. It pops 99% of the kernels using a minimal amount of the oil of our choice and give us beautifully popped popcorn with great flavor. Best of all, it's completely reusable so there is no "Jiffy Pop" pan or microwave bag to throw away. BTW the "oils" in single use poppers and bags are highly saturated so they'll remain solid in your car on a hot summer day.

That's what we found. Most offices swap out their chairs well before they're even slightly worn looking so you're buying an almost new piece of furniture. Good deals, too.

Both my Honda and a little Phillips micro stereo in my kitchen read MP3's off a thumb drive. Interestingly, I found out I had to re-format the thumb drive to a FAT32 in order for the car to read it.

A liberated woman well ahead of her time, if you read her bio. Her likeness adorned many a warbird and no doubt reminded pilots what they were fighting for.

Or if they're broken or not.

Hope it holds up. I tend to find chairs from Staples, Target, Amazon, etc. end up with ripped vinyl or stripped bolts within a few years. We went to a used office furniture store and bought something commercial that's not as flashy as a Staples Gaming Chair but that's still comfortable and sturdy after 8 years.

And how about when a member posts a series of photos of funny restaurant signs and such? Does the restaurant have any rights to UHH's reproduction and sharing of their work? In fact, I'd bet most funny sayings on those signs are someone else's work so is the restaurant infringing on some author's copyright (assuming it's copyrighted). How about when someone posts a joke originated by a professional comedian? I'm sure that are myriad of similar examples and reuse of internet-posted materials is a massive grey area, legally, but just like jaywalking that might be illegal, no one's going to enforce anything.

Generally, copyright protection is to ensure an artists's/cartonists's/author's work is not used by someone else for monetary gain without permission or compensation. Although I can see where it's technically illegal (like jaywalking) once a piece is on the internet, I'm sure the originator is aware his/her work is going to be shared.

For an environmental conference I was organizing I once contacted Larson's office to ask if we could reproduce a cartoon as part of the advertising for the conference. I explained we were a not-for-profit organization (NH Dept. of Environmental Services), we would not use the cartoon to make money and it would benefit the environment. Larson's staff was sympathetic and said they understood his work was commonly reproduced for a variety of reasons but preferrd we wouldn't use his work as a general policy. They stopped short of saying they'd take legal action if we did. We ended up honoring their request.

My wife was a real Allman fan. We saw them 4 or 5 times (without Duane but with Dickie) and then Dickie with Great Southern, twice. His “blazing” guitar easily matched Van Zandt or Caldwell who had that reputation. A gifted writer and performer who suffered from some inner demons leading to several band break ups and some not-so-nice relationships with women.

Yeah I checked with my friend who also had the Stanton cartridge and he confirmed the specs called for 3 grams…which was indeed heavy compared to its peers. He said he lowered the weight to 2 grams and it worked fine and it could have been even less without affecting the Shure tone arm’s tracking.

To the best of my questionable memory that was what the specs called for. I sold my vinyl setup for a pittance a few years ago when my hearing started getting lousy. I now rely on cd’s and YouTube Music. Not as good sound but at least I can pull up just about every concert and song I ever liked.

That’s a good point. My turntable, tone arm and cartridge cost around $400 back in 1973 when I bought them. I guess that’s about $4,500 in today’s dollars. Funny; back then I was living on peanut butter, salad and eggs, having very little income, but I had the best damn sound money could buy. You know, priorities!

I'd be suspicious of (very expensive) gimmickry. There were tables in the '70's that didn't rely on gravity but they never won out over traditional tables & tone arms because of inconsistent tracking. I had a Thorens table with the Shure SME high track arm and a Stanton 681EE cartridge that perfectly tracked deep in the center of the groove and kept a constant 3 gram pressure. Its sound still beats any digital format. I suppose the Miniot might appeal to a rich Millennial who wants to impress his/her friends but who doesn't know any better.

Great set! Pure Americana! As fast food restaurants close down because people are rejecting their overcharging for tasteless food, let's hope places like this continue to thrive.

My cat stares at me like that for no reason, all the time. I ask him "Do you want to go out"? "Do you want food?" "What do you want?"

(no response)

I think he's just messing with me.