Archive for 'Days of Yore' Category
We Have These Vehicles
15 November 2009Volkswagen Mark II Golf, $500. So, I bought a hooptie. This is my first front-wheel-drive car. It’s also the smallest car I’ve ever owned. It also has the fewest horsepower of any car I’ve owned. And I’m a bit abashed to admit it’s the first car I’ve owned with a manual transmission. Schwinn cyclocross bicycle, [...]
We Have This Aftershave
3 October 2009So, I’ve started wearing aftershave. Well, sort of. I use it after shaving my head (which I do every week). Thanks to AAFES, I can still get Aqua Velva even though I’m back in Germany again. Why Aqua Velva? I blame Pete Rose.
I have too many razors
28 March 2009Give away the handles away, make a killing on the refills, right? I have entirely too many razors. Starting from the left on the above picture: German Merkur 42 double-edge safety razor copy of the 1904 Gillette. I bought this via eBay recently after tiring of my electric. I actually first started shaving with my [...]
We Have These Great Ideas
20 February 2007Yeah, the Wheel of Lunch? That was MY idea. I even had a crude prototype working on this very site years ago. But alas, I got distracted by something shiny and never followed up on it. Someone track down Noel Doran, Esq. (probably somewhere in Palmdale). He can vouch for the fact that I proposed [...]