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My Christmas Wish for Tecnology... ... is something much less grand. When I do a camera check and adjust the lights and shades in my LR/DR/Office with its wall of WSW facing windows and have it all just right..... I want it to look that way on whatever platform I'm using!!! It doesn't...

Wow! I wonder if the humanoid ones were hooked up to a guy who was dancing. Even so, that's still jaw dropping! I was watching the dog and the legs had either L<->R or Front<->Back symmetry at all times, but kept balance with all that jumping. .... Amazing. The bird was even more...

From the ~1880's to WWII-ish most 1-3 family homes (and frequently larger apartment buildings, esp until 1920's) were heated by low pressure (2-5psi) one-pipe steam systems. There was no hot water heater. Hot water was produced from a coil running off the boiler. AFAIK, 1-3 family homes did not...

#8 I remember Eaton's. I got some good clothes there...... I also picked up some killer Priape jeans, although I have a feeling that was at a store on St. Denis. Speaking of Montreal, if you want a cute movie, check out "Mambo Italiano". It's set in Montreal Nord around Duplessis and...

A swimming pool wouldn't affect a septic tank unless it were installed in the leaching field. If it were, given sufficient rain to saturate the field and sufficient input from the house, it could back up. And that would be all kinds of wonderful! Garbage disposals: I think I'm an outlier here...

"Neutrogena Hydro-Boost water gel (that one with tons of hyaluronic acid that you feel "frying" your face the moment you rub it." I'll have to check that out. Here's my list: Oxy-Wash 10% benzoyl peroxide Neutragena 3% salicylic acid shampoo Lava bar soap Sulphur soap when I can find it for...

From the description it sounds like you wash outside and have a fire going?

I've always found that a teaspoon or so of detergent on the door for the prewash results in cleaner dishes no matter where I am or what machine........

They had that dishwasher for ~20 years. That routine with my mother replayed a couple of times weekly while I lived at home and then at least once each visit after I'd moved out. Funny (sad?) thing was that I was NEVER able convince any bystanders that the conversation they witnessed was not...

"I'm of the opinion, that people concerned about energy use and our environment needs to look further into cost of repairing these appliances and encouraging better build quality." I agree, but that'd be a hard sell. Most people seem only to want the words "green", "natural", and "small carbon...

Wow, this brings back memories. My parents' first dishwasher was the '_?_?_?_?_?_' which was slotted in between this one and the Superba. It had a heavy duty cycle (called something else, IIRC) and an adjustable upper rack, but lacked the water heating feature I wanted but the parental units...

Speaking of the Trabant, There's a movie called "Go, Trabi!" set shortly post-wall. A group of young East Germans heading to West Germany for a good time. Car & Driver wrote a review of the movie in which they mentioned the movie being realistic car-wise. Having no experience with an Autobahn...

This is so cool. This is the kind of thing I like to read to keep languages from hiding in my brain. Except in this case I might not be familiar enough with the actual info to take advantage of it. Let us know what interesting/unusual things you find... Thank for posting this :-)

6'5" ?? You're distracting me. Stop. My soap 'problem' is finding a combination of soaps strong enough to keep my acne under control. Everyone's like, "But your skin is so clear!" Yes, BUT the time and energy required to to keep it that way... Keeps. Going. Up. I've had great luck with...

A few years ago I did some research (aka online window shopping) for a friend who was thinking about buying one. As other have said, they all seem to come out of the same factory in chine. There seemed to be two models of the same unit. One heated the water and one did not so they each had...

#8 So true! #9 Join the club. I dumped IE for Opera so far back you paid a yearly fee to Oslo. Worth. Every. Penny. I tolerated Windows until EOL for Win7 was announced and I got a look at 8. No thanks. I've been Linux ever since. I have Win10 on one laptop as a company I worked for...

#7 "Flame resistant" children's clothing, especially pyjamas and bathrobes, was introduced before smoke alarms as we know them today were available. They were hard-wired and very expensive. Few homes had them. Wood burning fireplaces and stoves were much more common than today, as were use of...

#27 Thanks for the links. I HATE when companies use non-describing descriptors for settings. For example the names of the bottom 4 settings of the dial. I have to check the manual just to get a basic idea of what the cycle does because the name says nothing...... Stupid, IMO. But check it I...

A few thoughts to add.... -- There are mesh laundry bags one can buy. You put the item or garment inside the wash. It reduces the friction between the item and the washer. ..... Less wear and tear. :-) -- I sometimes think care instructions on tags are overly cautious and do not take into...

#9 You and your circle are not the average consumer. I just made the cut-off to be a Baby Boomer and I can tell you that the majority of people my age neither know nor care about how many things work. Hell, when I was in college I worked in a bank, most of whose customers were old enough to be...