miamizsun wrote: 
Opera, because I need some sophistication in my life.

i'm also using/trying the new ms edge chromium browser

a lot of the existing extensions work too

 kurtster wrote: 
I just used the tire iron to put the belt on. I bought a stock '36 Plymouth Business Coupe after that and had tons of fun with that for the $175 it cost me. I always regretted selling it later to a pizza place called "Godfathers Pizza" who used it to deliver pizza's and totally trashed it in no time.

Firefox, because it's not I.E.

 DaveInVA wrote: 
Yep floorboards in the back totally gone (62 Monza w/powerglide).  Put down sheet metal and mastik and a ton of screws.  It held pretty good, but yes it would leak during rainy trips.  Never had the fire problem.  I bought it with a blown head gasket in one of the jugs.  Tore the whole thing apart, cleaned all the shrouding til it shined and brand new o-rings in the push rod tubes, so no oil leaks and no smelly heat. 

The standard Corvair survival tools were a 9/16 and 1/2 wrench and a section of broom stick so you could put the fan belt back on when it popped off.

 Zep wrote: 
I've noticed that if I leave my browser open on the RP website past midnight (Central TZ), that the text editor misbehaves, and when I post, I get at least two Japanese Yen characters in my post.  I think it might have something to do with a batch (cron) job that must run around that time.  I can go back and edit the post to remove the unwanted characters, and fully closing then restarting the browser puts things back to normal.

Something to be aware of is your character encoding.  There's a setting at the OS level and another for each browser application.  There seems to be a push to standardize on Unicode characters.  UTF-8 is becoming the standard for the WWW.  ISO-8859-1 works most of the time in the US, but mixing the two may be your problem.

 ptooey wrote: 
Yeah it happens elsewhere from browsers... The unicode chars mess up various stream programs.... Winamp does fine with them, and so does XMMS, but I've seen others that don't. 
 

 Zep wrote: 
After viewing the RP site with no less than 5 different browsers, I'm convinced it's a "feature".

Is there a browser setting that will show non-English characters here at RP correctly? 

For example, sometimes "Detektivbyrån" shows up properly, and sometimes it's "DetektivbyrÃ¥n" ... 
 

 kurtster wrote: 
My first car was a '60 Corvair in HS. One day I was driving home from school with friends and the engine caught fire and the first place I could turn into was of course a gas station and found I couldn't stop because the brake lines got cut when the engine mounting tab broke which also broke the fuel line and caused the fire. I hit the side wall of the station away from the pumps and they came running out with fire extinguishers and just stood and watched it burn while we bailed out of the burning car.  I left it there and they used it as a garbage dumpster until it was full of junk and then they hauled it off. I paid a whopping $15 for that car. Remember when you could actually get a running car for under $50? The floorboards were rusted out and snow would drift inside at night so I had to put plywood over the holes...

 DaveInVA wrote: 
I worked at a Sunoco in HS.  They had the dial.  Weasel piss to 260, when 260 was real.  I used to drain the pump hose after every 260 customer and fill a jug.  The hoses would work that way back then.  I sometimes had a half a gallon at the end of the day.  My Corvair got 35 mpg.

When I was in College gas was 23.9 at Sears (Remember they had the pump where you dial the Octane you wanted).

 JrzyTmata wrote: 


10 cents to ride from Berkeley to San Francisco on the F express bus ...
Oh yeah, IE 8 and IE6 depending on puter.  Why ? I dunno, it came with them an I'm too lazy an ...

 Umberdog wrote: 
That was apparently the price from 1974-1975.  It does seem like it was further back in time than that, though.

 bokey wrote: 
Humph! All we had was oak, and we loved it, mister!

Hey, cc, you got mail?

 kurtster wrote: 
10 cents to use a toilet.

 Umberdog wrote: 
Living in the woods? You didn't miss much.

 Umberdog wrote: 
Sorry there sonny ...

Nickle pay phones and street cars in Los Angeles.
Geezus, I really am old ....

FF 'cause I like it.

 oldslabsides wrote: 

...or not