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I had a similar "full circle" moment like that.

20+ years ago I first saw an RX-7 while pushing carts for the local grocery chain. Then a few years ago I see a kid collecting carts for another store of the same chain staring at mine.

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Subscription software means they don't have to improve anything since they're getting paid forever anyway.

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Spoken like someone who hasn’t repeatedly cut up his hands replacing the headlights.

For my car, every time I would replace my headlights, my knuckles would look like I’d lost a boxing match with a cheese grater. Replacing the bulbs with ones that were likely to last longer than the car was a huge ...

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when OS X came out I had a iBook SE that had some fundamental hardware issue that triggered kernel panics when it was left idle, so I was pretty skeptical of the claimed stability improvements.
I never got to the bottom of it, an indie Apple repair shop said something was up with the logic board.

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How salted are the roads in Hoth?
I've been told that cars last a lot longer these days before the floors rust out, except for maybe Mazda.

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This 1982 Mazda RX-7 I've had for 21 years, so now it's my mid-life crisis car.
It's been through many modifications, some more well thought out than others, but a little while ago I've finally decided what "finished" looks like and executing that. New engine may go in this year but a color change ...

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I just watched this movie. Excellent. Not your typical Jackie Chan movie at all. If you enjoy movies like Liam Neeson's Taken, you may enjoy this.

I was intrigued with this one, wondering what Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan were going to do together.
but Jackie wasn't really instrumental in ...

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Sorry, Link. Sounds like you were close to your grandfather and have many memories to reflect on.

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a buddy of mine acquired a machine based on the movie Maverick, the one with Mel Gibson. He said it requires a bit of regular maintenance, springs and switches need to be reset or adjusted all the time. you hit the ball to score cards to make a Poker hand.

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Is it the form factor or the newer OS that keeps your father from using the Air?

I use the Macbook as a 2nd screen and have a 27" Cinema Display with a separate keyboard and that's been the perfect set up for home use.
Soon I'm going to have to get into the modern Mac OS, if only because old ...

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Too many old machines, not enough tabletops.

I have a PowerMac 7100 staring at me in the living room on a shelf, I want to fire it up to play F/A-18 Hornet or get back into hobby programming since I still have a CodeWarrior compiler.
In storage are a clamshell iBook, later redo iBook, polycarbonate ...

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Jehannum wrote: Tue Feb 24, 2026 2:19 pm
edit: Which issue is that? I'd like to buy it for the kid.

October 2025

Alien wrote: Tue Feb 24, 2026 9:03 am
Hello.

hey

j_tso

I haven't heard from Og in well over 10 years. He found me in the Jalopnik comment section before that site enshittified.
I reached out to set up an Austin get together but he didn't respond.

Do you not post on GRM any more? Did you see a photo of your MR2 project made the magazine?

https://i ...

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It's a mid-2012 Macbook Pro, I just bought a new battery for it and replaced the optical drive with another SSD.

Granted, I don't do much heavy computing with it, just internetting and watching videos. The only time it really shows its age is when converting videos from my gopro.

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