13 Sep
2013
13 Sep
'13
4:05 p.m.
On Friday 13 September 2013 09:47:46 Bob van der Poel did opine:
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
More truth than you want to admit there Bob. I, because I can't buy a sink
bowl for our bathroom vanity (they haven't made that exact elliptical shape
in years), had to replace the whole thing yesterday in what started out to
be just a new faucet. $300 & change for a chipboard replacement for a real
wooden unit now 40 years old. Real wood would have been special order, 2
months delivery, and $700.
I didn't even bother to screw this ones back strap to the wall. I've a
stock of white ash that would make an outstanding vanity, and the new,
solid plastic top/sink will not notice when real wood replaces that
chipboard crap, isn't even fit for kindling to start a fire with, base that
is the one I just bought. With a little luck I might get the new base done
before this one dissolves from the humidity. I'm only 79 in 3 weeks, I
should have time enough left to do that. :)
Cheers, Gene
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My web page: <http://gene.homelinux.net:6309/gene> should be up!
Microsoft is not Y2K compliant: Windows 95, 98, ... and back again to 01
A pen in the hand of this president is far more
dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of
law-abiding citizens.
However, modern crappy 200 W and more hifi
equipment often only works
when the music is insane loud, at sane levels the speakers and what
ever else in the sound chain, are more biased, than at blast level. I
had a neighbour who is young, with a modern hifi, who listened to
black eyed peas or other crap that does sound as criminal as they do.
The generation "I even listen to my music, when using the local
public transport, at full power, by my smart phone speaker" owns gear
that perhaps doesn't fulfill what should be expected for "HiFi"
equipment.
Funny, or sad ... in the 60s and 70s phone companies boasted about the
fidelity and robustness of their landlines, and now we need to put up
with the crappy cell phone (which sounds like shit, and drops calls
more frequently than a whore's drawers). Stereo systems were installed
and balanced to a room, now it's a $20 pair of ear buds on a phone
playing a lo-res mp3.
And all this when it is easy and cheap to create very high quality
stuff. Something is wrong. I figure that this is why we die when we
get older ... we just can't stand the BS that modern life brings.