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No, I didn’t know that Porsche came close to replacing the 911 with the 928. Both cars are awesome.

Lots of cars had concealed headlamps but not anymore. You can get a list of them by googling “cars that have hidden headlamps”.

Porsche wants to immortalize the 911. Future generations of it will probably have the same overall classic shape that it does now. The 928, no longer in production, was a different car altogether. The 928 had a conventional front engine rear drive drivetrain whereas the 911 has a rear engine rear drive drivetrain. The 928’s round headlamps are different from other cars hideaway headlamps. They don’t retract and hide. Instead, they tilt back onto the hood when not in use and point straight up. When the headlamps are turned on, a small electric motor pushes the headlamps so that they face the front of the car.

I think concealed headlamps were dropped by auto makers because of car-pedestrian accidents. If the headlamps are in the raised position and if the front of the car should hit someone, more severe injuries would result than fixed position headlamps that don’t project above the car’s sheet metal surface.

My car has hidden headlamps and I rather like having them. By retracting the headlamps when not being used, the headlamps stay cleaner and that means better illumination at night.

I think the small triangular driver and passenger side vent windows were dropped by auto makers to lower costs. The vent windows were small and could swivel to allow you to direct an air stream at yourself and not have to use the car’s HVAC to do it. The triangular vent windows helped on hot days when the car’s been sitting in the heat and before the AC has the chance to cool off the car’s interior.

I’m glad to see that New Yorkers will be able to use cash instead of being forced to use a credit or debit card to make a retail purchase. I hope a similar law is introduced and passed in my state. Or better yet at the federal level.

I don’t have a debit card. And I don’t want to use my credit cards for trifling purchases such as a cup of coffee, a movie ticket, or a tooth brush. I’d rather just use cash for these transactions.

https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/12/new-york-state-enacts-cash-acceptance-law

I just started reading “The Satanic Verses” by Salmon Rushdie. I’m finding it hard to read. I’m going to take a pause from it and get a Cliff’s Notes Study Guide booklet for this book before going back to reading it.

Below is a photo of the machine for those of you who have never seen a Power Plates machine.

By the way, I haven’t seen pianojuggler, the first person to respond to the linked topic, post anything here for a long time. pianojuggler was one of the former WTF forum’s moderators. Anyone hear from him?

https://well-temperedforum.groupee.net/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9130004433/m/4913977697?r=4913977697#4913977697

Instead of buying a vibration plate machine: Do you belong to a health club? They might have one. Mine does. It’s a Power Plate machine and it costs about $10,000 because the club needs a commercial quality machine that would hold up to constant usage by people all day long. The Power Plate has two user selections: frequency/amplitude and time. Frequency is how fast the plate vibrates and amplitude is how much distance the plate travels. I don’t know how much therapeutic value the machine provides but to me, the machine is great to use after a workout.

Frequency/amplitude on the machine’s control panel can be set from 1 (slowest) to 8 (fastest). Set it to the maximum of 8 and the vibration can make your teeth chatter.

Silver Spring Horseradish Sauce.

Its heat index is on the hot side but it’s not overwhelmingly so. Silver Spring is my favorite one so far but I by no means have tried all horseradish sauces. A Spanish ethnic grocery store where I bought it discontinued selling it. It didn’t sell well enough I guess but I found another store that carries them.

Make sure you test drive the car before buying it to check CVT noise levels. Drive it with both the windows all the way up and all the way down.

When I last drove CVT cars, it was a 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander and a Subaru XV Crosstrek. Both of them were very loud during acceleration. You couldn’t carry on a conversation with your passengers. There was a loud droning sound but it’s not present all the time. It was only upon acceleration. It’s an intrinsic problem with CVTs. The drone is coming from the engine because of the way CVTs work. Don’t know if automakers have solved the droning since I last drove one which was 2013.

Cats are curious and they all have different personalities. Most cats would participate in any of those vignettes except the one in which the bowl is rotating fast. I think most cats would become skittish and jump out if the bowl is spinning too fast. At least mine would of.

The Joint Security Area refers to both the Korean Joint Security Area (JSA) and the title of a movie. The JSA is a small section of the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas where North and South Korean border guards face each other. Visitors can visit the JSA as shown in one scene of the movie.

“Joint Security Area” is an action-drama fictional movie not based on true events about a group of North and South Korean soldiers and an incident between them resulting in two North Koreans being killed and the investigation into it.

Mostly in Korean and English with subtitles.

At Carson Pirie Scott, Sears, Weiboldts, Goldblatt’s, Lord & Taylor, and other long gone department stores that were once located in downtown Chicago, you might find something you liked. But at Marshall Field’s which is now Macy’s, you would always find something that you liked. Macy’s is a vast store to shop at. It looks like the internet is taking over as the preferred department store, a sign of the times.

I’ve always liked it. There was once a supermarket chain in Los Angeles named “Ralph’s” where I lived. They stocked cottage cheese in both small and large curd. Some of the small curd ones in addition to the plain flavor were also available in chive or pineapple added. This was a long time ago. Since then, I haven’t seen large curd, chive, or pineapple added ones sold anywhere. Currently, I buy it from Aldi’s.

The coyote was looking for road runners on sale.

I have cooked cereal for breakfast. I rotate amongst these four daily so I don’t get tired of any particular one: Oat meal, grits, quinoa, and cream of wheat. All of them contain no added sugar. I use evaporated milk instead of half and half. I think evaporated milk tastes better.

Some soy milk brands have no added sugar. Check the ingredients list on the carton.

Funny that nobody who works in any of the stores that I visited suggested an extension cord reel. Maybe they don’t know about them either, just like me, until now. It looks like it might do the trick. The real experts are right here on this forum, not working in stores. Learn something new, every day, that’s WTF forum. Thank you everyone.

wtg:

You said “Code in Cook County still requires conduit.”. Check to see whether you live in incorporated Arlington Heights or unincorporated Arlington Heights. Incorporated AH has its own building dept. and home rule electrical codes. If you live in an unincorporated area of AH or any uninc. area of the county, then Cook County codes apply.

A previous owner installed only one electrical outlet into my detached garage and it’s mounted to a roof rafter and faces downward to the garage floor. In order to plug in an electrical appliance, I have to climb a step ladder to get to it because it’s too high for me to reach. I’m 6’00”.

A non-flexible six foot long electrical extension rod would do the trick. Modeled like a flexible electrical extension cord, an electrical extension rod would plug right into the rafter outlet by reaching straight up. This would allow appliances to plug into the extension rod without having to use a step ladder. I’ve checked lots of hardware and home improvement stores for this item. Nobody knows of such a thing. It doesn’t exist. I guess necessity really is the mother of invention.

@Daniel said in Bose brings back the 901:

I was familiar with the 901's. They were part of the cultural scene of my parents' generation. Our next door neighbor had a set. They used them at low volume but I think they were meant to make a statement more than anything else.

I personally didn't understand and/ or believe in direct/ reflected technology. I still don't truth be told.

I think Bose 901s sound better at high volumes than at low volumes. For sure. When I first heard of them, I thought that reflected sound speakers like the 901s were gimmicky. 901s are supposed to be placed a few feet away from a wall for best sound fidelity. You want to bounce the sound waves off the wall. I remember one time we reversed the 901s so that the nine drivers on the rear side of the speaker were facing the room and the one driver on the front side was facing the wall. I didn’t notice that much of a difference. 901s do sound better when compared with most other speakers for sure. I’m not an acoustical engineer though and there is a scientific basis for reflected soundscapes. On an opera house backstage group tour that I once took, the docent told us that the opera house was designed for maximum sound reflection and that meant minimizing the use of carpeting and upholstery. They couldn’t get rid of all the opera house’s carpeting because of floor safety reasons. Before I left the Army, I bought unidirectional JBL speakers from the PX. I like them better than 901s.

In a house, Bose 901s can overwhelm and deafen you with sound. A friend from the Army had Bose 901 speakers. 901s rely on bounced sound reflection off of a wall. I think it had nine speakers facing the rear and one speaker facing the front and they could handle lots of wattage. You need a powerful receiver to really take advantage of 901s. They were expensive too as I remember. Because they’re so powerful at loud volumes, they’re better for discos and roller skating rinks than home use. Playing the Bachman Turner Overdrive song “Sledgehammer” at full volume would cause the walls to vibrate.

Put on your ice skates before walking across that floor. You just might need them because the floor looks slippery and especially if it gets wet.

As I remember there was a problem when the Thompson State of Illinois Office Building in downtown Chicago was under construction. It was discovered that the concourse floor was too slippery and they feared lawsuits from people falling. A machine had to be brought in after the floor was installed to roughen up the floor.

Our old forum is now a ghost town.

Can a topic in its entirety from the old wtf/eve site be brought over here to be continued rather than starting the same topic here as a new topic? It was a “What are you reading” topic and I think there were two of them.