Best posts made by Newell Post

FWIW, I appear to have won my campaign for election to the city council of my small-ish Silicon Valley city.

@curlydoc Well, I'm sure Henry, Edsel, Walter, and Willy didn't advertise them that way, but yeah...

At 5:58.... 49 years ago I decided to become a professional architect instead of a professional cornetist. I'm not a famous architect. I never built the Empire State Building. Nobody outside of a few local areas ever heard of me. But it was the right decision for me.

Thanks for posting this, Dale. It is worth watching to the end, with or without the Carnival of Venice.

Sorry. I used to love cars. Now I hate cars. They are a necessary evil, but I just want ones that start and run reliably and drive comfortably.

@bigdub The water droplets are very good.

https://designmanifestos.org/adolf-loos-ornament-and-crime/

@j-jericho Before daylight savings time, people just adopted a "summer schedule" or "double summer schedule." In the former, they scheduled everything an hour earlier. In the latter, they scheduled everything hours earlier. Leave the clocks alone. Just change the schedule.

@bigdub Yogi only said about 5% of the things he supposedly said. The other 95% were made up by his childhood buddy, neighbor, and teammate Joe Garagiola who attributed them to Yogi. Both of them were still alive when I lived in St. Louis and they would occasionally make local appearances together.

Yogi would start out (haltingly): "Well,..... youse knows what..... I always sez. When youse comes.... to the fork in the road..... take it!"

Then Joe would jump in and say: "Yeah, well let me tell you about the other 500 things Yogi said. Blah, blah, blah. Yak, yak, yak...." And Joe would continue for about 15 minutes with more Yogi-isms.

So, where is the USC marching band when we really need them? That Super Bowl halftime show was unwatchable.