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My first ever coffeemaker was similar to to this one. I showed it to my mom and she called it a Vaculator. It made a good pot of coffee.

Same beans? Same grind? Same ratio of ground coffee to water? I too would have expected that the percolator would have produced the darker-looking brew.

Were it me and if I were quite a bit shorter, I'd like my final ride to be in this one or in this replica.

I flew the nonstop SBA --> ORD route yesterday. After touchdown, we took the tour of what felt like every taxiway at O'Hare before we got to the gate. Along the way we passed this: .

Did some yard work this afternoon. I spotted something peeking out in the pachysandra:

Orange marmalade, anyone? Made with real oranges and lemons.

Mobility-impaired passengers may (likely?) require an aisle seat. Boarding them last would work, but deplaning them last may not. Orders of boarding a plane have been studied a lot. Here's one of many writeups, a Scientific American article, about the topic.

NHTSA safety recall report

On a dare, once, in my misspent youth, I ate a jalapeño and anchovy pizza. I would not ever do that again.

Yes, point taken.

To be fair, it's not just Windows machines. Saw this at Costco this morning. On a Chrome display screen next to some appliances this morning:

Looks like here: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa

EDIT: As I think about it, it was likely more like $4K a year. The tickets were still a sizeable % of annual income.

The only long-ago airfare that I know was from 1962 when my parents flew ORD <--> LAX to visit my mom's sisters. It was their first flight and they were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. They flew coach. The tickets were $400 each, round trip. At that time my dad was likely making...

Um, uh, never. I did see a macOS panic once. It was due to a failing hard drive.