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New inventions in our lifetime........
David In Indy:
Oh. I just thought of another one!
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Oh Hell. I forgot what I was going to say. >:(
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Oh yeah...... coffee makers! :D
I remember watching my mother's percolator for a very long time when I was a kid. I loved watching the coffee "percolate" up and down through the little glass handle on the lid. But it took hours for it to percolate...or brew.
Now, we can pour a pot of cold water into a machine, press a button, and in 3 minutes we have a fresh pot of coffee! That is, when the damn things work. I flooded my kitchen in vinegar last week trying to clean mine.
Does anyone know a good brand of coffee maker out there? I'll buy it just as long as it doesn't piss vinegar all over the kitchen counter.
It's all good!
Coffee makers! Now that's a great invention.
Or as they use to say... "Now that's a great cup of coffee honey!" :D
Katie77:
Typewriters......I learned on a manual typewriter....bang, bang banging on the keys......if i made a mistake, we had a typewriter eraser.......
The the electric typewriter came in, and we were so used to banging the old keys, that everytime we hit a key now, it came out half a dozen times.......
And carbon paper copies......i worked for a finance company, and we had to type an original and about four copies of the loan contracts...if we made a mistake, we got out the little bottle of white stuff, and dabbed each copy, waited for it to dry, then type the right letter.....the white stuff smudged all the copies...
Thank goodness once again for computers.....
mvansand76:
The.... iPod/MP3 player...
Not so long ago, just before I got my iPod, I was sitting on the train with my portable cassette player, listening to all these mixed music tapes I had made when I was a child. I opened the cassette player to get the cassette out and the sound that it made, KAPLOING (or something, can't really describe it) actually startled some people out of their sleep-induced comas and there were these kids who looked at me and the machine in my hand with a mortified look on their faces, and they were asking their mothers what it was.
Aaaaw... the good old cassette player...
David:
--- Quote from: David925 on October 08, 2006, 08:57:43 pm ---Boy, I remember the very first time I heard about a cell phone... actually it was a car phone. I couldn't figure out how it would work. I remember picturing a huge reel of telephone cord on the trunk of the car. Then I remember realizing a reel of cord on the back of a car wouldn't work. The cord would get all tangled up as the car drove down the street and turned corners. I think the first time I ever heard about a car phone was probably in the early 1980's. Of course back then, only the very rich could afford one and I never actually saw someone using a cell phone until the early 1990's. My friend Claude owned one, and he carried the phone around in a case (about the size of a brief case) which contained the phone, the telephone's computer and a large battery.
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Remember in the 1970s when some TV detectives had "Mobile Phones" ?
I remember a TV show called "Cannon" starring William conrad. He drove a silver Lincoln Mark IV with a telephone in it. It looked like a regular phone. He'd pick it up and ask for the mobile operator and then give her the regular phone number he needed to be connected too. Very impressive then!
It wasn't until the mid 1980s that they became more popular. Yet still very expensive! $1500.00 - $2,000 US Dollars then! :o
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: David925 on October 09, 2006, 01:58:29 am ---
Does anyone know a good brand of coffee maker out there? I'll buy it just as long as it doesn't piss vinegar all over the kitchen counter.
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Saeco Vienna Deluxe Super Automatic
Press the button and the machine grinds the beans, puts them in the little holder, spritzes the water through, dumps the beans and makes one perfect cup of coffee...anything from the tiniest cup of espresso (ristresso) to a mug of American style coffee. If you want the whole barista experience, you can foam milk, make lattes, etc., but I never bother.
I bought this machine five years ago and it was expensive. My husband almost had a stroke. But it has paid for itself ten times over in that I never buy coffee out anymore...it is just not up to the standard I have become used to.
Leslie
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