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"One time I had to pay a duty because it crossed a province."
That doesn't happen in the US, and this type of a shipping route isn't at all normal. I have things shipped here all the time (including many things from California, because there are a ton of eBay sellers located there), and I usually look at the tracking page for each shipment. The shipping routes are normally direct and logical. This particular one was caused by ineptitude, which is why it's 5 days late, due to crossing the country 3 times instead of once.
Backtracking from New Jersey to Arizona is one hell of a bathroom break. The route is like if someone in British Columbia mailed something to Nova Scotia, and it went from British Columbia to Quebec to Alberta to Nova Scotia.
Yes, but "still" indicates something that's hanging on, not a resurgence.
A true resurgence of technology that's been largely supplanted by something newer is a rare thing. I can only think of one example of it happening in my lifetime: vinyl records. They were practically dead by the early 1990s, but recently they outsold CDs for the first time since 1987:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112369/riaa-2023-music-revenue-streaming-vinyl-cds-physical-media
That's a big resurgence for vinyl records, but they are not even close to being back to where they were during their peak years, nor to where CDs were during their peak years, and they almost certainly never will be, because the lowest common denominator will never trade in the convenience of music in the form of digital files for physical media that's expensive and takes up space.
Typewriters have two roadblocks to a resurgence. Unlike vinyl records, which contain music, which there will always be a huge market for in one form or another, most people don't even have a need to write things neatly down on paper anymore, due to the ubiquity of email and other forms of electronic communication. And for people who do have such a need, a PC and a printer (especially a laser printer) is drastically superior to a typewriter in terms of speed, functionality, and versatility (it being able to do everything a typewriter can do and much more, is the second roadblock).
I doubt they will ever have an actual resurgence, but there will always be a relatively small group of enthusiasts for most any supplanted technology you can think of: old computers, old TVs, old telephones, old radios, old cars, old arcade machines and consoles, and so on. Consider this group of people who have built a working telephone network from old manual switchboards and old phones, some of which date back to the early 1900s:
https://youtu.be/AUuVC_lJJk8
But that doesn't indicate a resurgence of old phone technology and practices.
"Unfortunately, I only had access to manual ones in HS and college, I would really like to learn how to use an electric one."
There's nothing to learn if you already know how to type. Typing on one is the same as typing on a computer keyboard, except they are noisier. And the only differences compared to a manual typewriter are that the keys have an easier and shorter stroke, and the paper is always struck with the same force regardless of how lightly or forcefully you press the keys, which makes the letter quality more consistent.
My mother had one exactly like this (including the plastic carrying case) when I was growing up in the '80s (she got it in the late '60s or early '70s before I was born):
https://www.amazon.com/Smith-corona-Coronamatic-Portable-Electric-Typewriter/dp/B0112YFSFE
I never used it for anything serious but I thought it was fun to play with when I was a kid.
In the late '80s or early '90s she moved on to one of those Brother word processors, which can function as an ordinary electric typewriter or you can use it in word processor mode, which lets you type out what you want to a screen, and when everything is the way you want it, it will type it all out automatically. It was a combination of word processor software, a daisy wheel printer, and a keyboard interface. Some of them had a small built-in LCD screen that wasn't very good to use because it could only display a few lines at a time, but Mom's had a separate 12" CRT monochrome (amber phosphor) monitor, which was drastically better, like this one:
https://i.imgur.com/n84Qy48.jpeg
I have it now. I want her old Smith Corona electric typewriter too, but so far she hasn't been able to find it.
I'd take a '69 Polara. I like those '60s and '70s Mopar C-barges.
"My buddy has a Hemi Challenger that he bought in the late 70s for literally a few hundred bucks - back then it was just another gas guzzler."
That's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars if it is in fact an original Hemi car, especially if it's a 1971. They only made 356 Hemi Challengers in 1970, and only 70 of them in 1971 (which was the last year for the 426 Hemi). It was a rare option because it was so expensive; it nearly doubled the base price of the car.
Most people who were around back then never even saw a 426 Hemi in anything in real life. My mechanic friend Dave was born in '57; has been working on cars since he was a kid; has owned hundreds of cars; has worked on thousands of them, and he's never seen a 426 Hemi in real life (except at modern car shows), let alone worked on one.
Charger, which looks nothing like any Camaro ever made. If it were a 1970-74 Challenger or Barracuda it would make more sense, because those do sort of resemble first-generation Camaros.
On the other hand, the teller at the drive-up window at the bank today had the right idea. "That looks like the General Lee," she said.
"Yes, Spock was a Vulcan/Human hybrid. But it always seemed logical to me (no pun intended) that his conception required some medical genetic manipulation. Now it's certainly not canon because it was never filmed. But in some of the Trek books I have read, they mention that Amanda needed some medical intervention to conceive."
Well, like I said, it has happened countless times in the animal kingdom (mules, tigons, ligers, leopons, wolfdogs, and so on), and even though there's currently no close-enough species on Earth for humans to hybridize with, it happened in the past between Neanderthals (<i>Homo neanderthalensis</i>) and humans (<i>Homo sapiens</i>):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Interbreeding
"As far as Maurice, I often took his comments with a grain of salt. He was a tad on the melodramatic side!"
The existence of aliens is firmly established in the Bewitched universe though, since there is an episode that features a pair of them:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0523203/reference/
That misty place in the clouds that they inhabit isn't Earth; there is more than one reference to them returning to Earth when they are there. If they are native to Earth, how did they ever find that non-Earth realm that they live in?
When Tabitha was born they wondered whether she would be human or a witch, not only indicating a distinction between the two, but also indicating that being a witch is genetic, and since purely human genetics don't produce any supernatural powers, that also indicates a biological distinction between them and humans. The same goes for when Adam was born.
Dr. Bombay's treatments differ and/or have different effects on humans vs. witches, which is another indicator of a biological distinction. There are also multiple diseases/illnesses mentioned on the show that only witches can have, which is yet another indicator of a biological distinction between them and humans.
These days they could use AI to make anyone sound like Frank Sinatra. If this random YouTuber can use AI to make himself sound like Johnny Cash...
https://youtu.be/HW1qjsqS1zM
... then Hollywood should have no trouble at all making Leonardo DiCaprio sound like Frank Sinatra.
They could also use "deepfake" technology to make him look like Frank Sinatra, but I bet they won't.
It has never been released on DVD (nor BD), so if you manage to find a DVD for sale it will be a bootleg, and unless it's been released somewhere in DVD-quality or better (such as an online streaming service or a digital TV broadcast), the source of the bootleg DVD will be VHS, i.e., low quality.
You'd be better off just buying the official VHS release if you can find it (and if you have a VCR). That way you'd at least get full VHS quality (assuming the tape is in good condition), rather than VHS quality that's suffered inevitable loss through the analog transfer process and the lossy digital (MPEG-2) encoding process.
The loss from the MPEG-2 encoding process tends to be especially bad with bootleg DVDs, because, unlike more modern codecs like the various flavors of MPEG-4, good quality MPEG-2 encoding is very difficult for amateurs to achieve.
"That's like saying a dime is less than a nickel because there's not as much metal in it."
No, it's nothing like that, since you didn't include what that would be in reply to.
"Black-and-white is not less than color, artistically."
Again, "artistically" is irrelevant in this context, and I already explained why.
"It doesn't matter whether it was an artistic or budgetary choice."
Yes, it does.
"Once the choice was made, it was shot as artistically as possible."
No, it absolutely wasn't. It was strictly a technical process. We're talking about a sitcom shot primarily in a studio under blazing lights, not some artsy movie that experiments with light, shadow, angles, etc.
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