Recent content by raybar

We do not save prescription bottles because they're ugly and covered with labeling. Lots of nicer small bottles and jars pass through our kitchen - spice bottles for example - and we have quite enough of those for our needs.

I am extremely neat in the sense of cool or hip or trendy. But I am the opposite of neat in the sense of organization or cleaning.:cool:

I was 15 in 1962. If I were sent back to that year with all my current memories intact, I would know what investments to make, and might be the richest person who ever lived by now. If I were suddenly 15 now, in 2025, but with all my memories intact, I would be much more focused on education...

If the continuous explosions all around us from about 8 PM to midnight on Independence Day is anything to go by, the public in Los Angeles is very much opposed to fireworks regulations.

My first name is Raymond My last name is either ...bar or ...bar... or bar...

Why would you establish a speed limit for e-bikes and e-scooters that is different than the speed limit for other vehicles? If e-bikes are too dangerous above 15 miles per hour, then what about gasoline powered bikes, scooters, and motorcycles? Or regular human powered bicycles?

If I were in charge of a school where something like this happened, in addition to encouraging law enforcement to arrest, charge, and prosecute the criminals who did it, I would expel them from school with no possibility them ever graduating.

There are many police chase videos on YouTube and other sites. The police do occasionally discontinue a chase if the situation becomes excessively dangerous. Or, they may back off a bit in the hope that the felon will slow down a little snd drive less recklessly. But they usually keep chasing...

It's Lagunitis India Pale Ale around here. lagunitas.com

Haven't seen that in 50 years or more. Marijuana and LSD appeared on my college campus in September 1967, at the start of junior year. There had been some talk about the hippie drugs the previous spring, but I never actually saw any. Things had changed over the summer, evidently, because drugs...

That was attempted a few times. Didn't work. I walked out, never to return.

George1959 said, "The end of the rocket is typical for Germany." Mike said "... maybe because of embarrassment." No. This was a prototype. Prototypes are expected to fail. I even heard an engineer years ago saying that they wanted them to fail "as soon as possible" so they could analyze the...

Us boys played with dolls too, but we treated them a little more roughly than our sisters did - - shot them with BB and pellet guns, blew them up with firecrackers, burned them at the stake, rolled them off the cliff in toy cars, and so on. Dad was amused, Mom was not.

I'm in Los Angeles. Small earthquakes are all but continuous here, and go almost unnoticed most of the time. "7 in 24 hours" includes only those large enough, say 4 on the Richter scale, to be felt at some distance. The one in North Hollywood last week, less than 5 miles north of us, felt more...

Call me if any actual evidence is ever found.