Robert Hall

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People of WalMart

The 20 somethings I know seem to by and large have practical appliances...the usual Priuses, Corollas, Civics, Accords, Camrys. The one guy I know that seems to be an enthusiast has an Infiniti G35 sedan w/ a manual.

Haven't seen Sixty Eight Panther in a week or so either..

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territorial

Well, the Russian angle is a legitimate concern, seeing as to how their industries and banks are rife with organized crime corruption. I wouldn't trust anything with them.

Actually saw a Camry from that era today, a black wagon with serious paint fade. I think the generation after that (looked kind of like a Taurus, '93 or '94) was when the sales of the Camry really took off in the US.

Seems like it would be a nice place to vacation, lots of scenery and mountains, and it's close to Canada. I went though the edge of it on a vacation about 15 years ago heading to Maine from the Boston area.

In the morning commute I saw a very sharp, extremely clean and shiny, restored '69-70 Chevy longbed 4x4 pickup on the freeway..was a goregous dark olive greenish brown, with large tires and black wheels.

Probably high mileage... the TBs depreciated pretty badly..midsize SUVs in particular depreciated really badly after last year's gas price spikes.

Dolce & Gabbana...popular w/ blingtards. I stick w/ prescription RayBans for the shades....

I had a conversation on the phone over the weekend w/ my brother (whom I'm not that close to), and we got off on cars gone by...he turned 60 last Friday, and has owned approx. 50 cars in the last 44 years... the numerous '60s Mustangs (incl. the '65 289 hipo coupe, the '66 GT convertible my folks bought for him new (that later got wrecked and sat in the barn for 10+ years till he sold it in '79), the '65 GTO, the '74 Firebird Formula that burned, the '76 Trans Am, the '68 Camaro SS 396 he sold a few years back...all the cars he has had over the last 40+ years in E. Ohio, W. Pa, and Columbus... Rob

Pennsylvania (Carlisle)

I used to be a Linux fan, SuSe and Redhat, even all the way back to Slackware 15 years ago, but in recent years prefer OS X. Solaris is probably still my favorite UNIX variant, going back to the early '90s. Trying to do simple things like hooking up a printer, connecting to a wireless network drove me nuts w/ Linux. With MAC OS X, it. just. works. Rob

I don't see a problem with Magna having ownership of Opel, it's the Russians I don't trust...their banking and businesses tend to be controlled by corrupt criminal organisations.

People into creative stuff seem to prefer them (GUI design, websites, photo manipulation, publishing, etc). As an enterprise Java and Oracle developer that dabbles in Ruby on Rails, I prefer them as they have pure UNIX goodness inside (OS X is UNIX based). Alas, though, the corporate cubeland development environments are still predominantly Windows, though the production environments are UNIX (Sun Solaris, IBM, and HP usually in the banking, finance and insurance worlds that I know pretty well). Rob

I like my Saturday morning Venti triple shot mocha douchearino w/ a artisan sandwich on the side. But I don't actually go into Starbucks, I roll through their drive thru in the JGC or the Merc 500SEL (which doesn't have cupholders--ARGGGGGGGHHHHHH). Years ago, back during the 2002 tech bubble, I was an unemployed techie for a while and hung out in coffee shops in Colorado Springs (Pike's Perk, great local place) w/ my laptop w/ other unemployed techies enjoying the free wireless.. Though nowdays, a MacBook Pro is necessary to hang out in coffee shops, a Windows laptop will only get you laughs of derision in the more tech oriented zipcodes, I've observed. Rob

I can't recall the last time I've seen any '80s Camry. I'm sure there are some still on the road, but I haven't noticed one in ages. I guess the theft rate is for demand for parts.

Exactly...I used to be a loft living coffee drinking, BMW owning and Jeep driving urbanite in downtown Denver before I moved to the burbs. Seems like FOG has prejudice against urban yuppies (and doesn't he live in urban area himself)? Rob

Saw the strange 3 wheel moped at work again today..determined the badge said 'MP3'. Turns out it's a Piaggio MP3. Interesting. R-Cube Piaggio MP3

I've seen a few of those..they used 'em in rural areas...seen them outside Colorado ski towns (along w/ RHD XJ Cherokees) and in Ohio... R-Cube

Saw an orange HHR today on the freeway--sort of a 'hybrid'--a panel but w/ the regular side doors. Are they an option on the panel? Saw not one but two '93-96 Fleetwoods in the last day---one last night in traffic--think it was black, and a silver blue one on the freeway this morning....looked to be in great shape. Made me think of the thread going on in the lounge. Rob

Mmm....nutella. Haven't had any in a while, I used to buy it to spread on English muffins at breakfast. Delicious stuff

Those are probably more likely independent, professional women who make their own car purchases (at least that's what the 3- and 5- series owners I've known tend to be (dated a couple, worked w/ several, have friends whose wives buy their own luxury cars)) rather than a housewife that gets hubby to buy her a minivan or CUV to haul around their offspring. Some DTSes are probably driven by Mary Kay saleswomen or grandmas... R