VWestlife

Location: New Jersey, USA
Web Site: http://www.amstereo.org
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/VWestlife
MakerTube (PeerTube): https://makertube.net/c/VWestlife

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NIP-05 Address

vwestlife_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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2026-05-14 21:56:53 UTC

LHD commercial-use Honda Acty Kei truck spotted in NJ today. It was carrying more cargo than the Ford Super Duty in front of it.
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2026-05-05 23:22:15 UTC

If only TV was like that again.
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2026-05-01 00:11:05 UTC

In the vacuum tube era, sometimes even $100,000 TV cameras needed you to bang on them to get them to work right. (The red, green, and blue tubes would drift out of alignment, as you can see in this clip.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FDyV8kYSE

2026-04-13 21:37:38 UTC

Subaru took the Outback, a wagon that appealed to women, turned it into a boxy macho-style SUV despite the company's own focus groups telling them not to change it, and raised the price by $5000, and now is astonished that sales of it have nosedived: https://www.autoblog.com/news/subaru-ditched-the-wagon-and-outback-sales-dropped-over-40
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2026-02-03 01:14:51 UTC

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Sweet & Low won't cut it if you're on the down-low, with that bright pink packet.

2026-02-02 23:35:54 UTC

Equal tastes great (if you're) straight. To me it tastes awful. But I'm one of those people who can immediately tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESHbxM5EQvQ

2025-10-13 01:18:24 UTC

I got my Covid-19 vaccination today, and despite being well under 65 and not having any medical conditions, at least at a CVS here in NJ, there were no questions asked and no attempt made to dissuade me from receiving it. (I've never had Covid, and want to keep it that way.)
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2025-08-27 03:23:48 UTC

I've seen many TV owner's manuals, but only one which tells you how you can use an AM radio or camera to check if the remote control is working.
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2025-07-30 22:06:06 UTC

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Thankfully this 1987 Porsche 944 is still on the road today, also with 159k miles on it as of its latest MOT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ-0Zl1qNgc
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2025-07-28 22:08:54 UTC

The 2002 bugeye Impreza WRX steals the scene. Unfortunately the car soon met its demise on the show, and apparently it wasn't just CGI, because its last MOT was in 2016 at 159k miles, shortly before this episode was filmed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAkJ8GFne0I
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2025-06-07 01:34:20 UTC

Funny error message from old Intel webcam software. Apparently in 2001 they never thought anyone would have more than 2 GB of RAM in Windows XP, so on my ThinkPad X60 with 4 GB of RAM (3 GB usable by the OS) it wraps around and reports a negative number.
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2025-06-02 03:57:56 UTC

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Susan Kare's Chicago font (of Macintosh fame) on a PC platform! The heresy!

2025-05-30 01:19:48 UTC

Old IBM terminal with "battleship" keyboard still in use in a Canadian Tire store in 2018.
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2025-05-07 22:06:07 UTC

Am I the only one who figured out that if you slow down to a crawl to go over a speed bump, it actually causes more of a jolt to your car's suspension than if you go over it at a few MPH? I can understand it if you're driving a low sports car and don't want it to scrape, but I see people crawling over speed bumps in full-size pickup trucks and SUVs.

2025-05-02 21:50:21 UTC

Le mouse did not pass le test.
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2025-02-15 03:14:57 UTC

The proto-MotorWeek, from Bob Mayer on WTVJ in Miami in the 1970s. Early segments had the voiceover done LIVE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XYOgLEH2g

2025-01-20 15:02:30 UTC

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I like how his left hand magically has a watch attached to only one side of it, and right hand magically gained a microphone(?).

2024-12-04 21:20:19 UTC

The weirdest Famiclone you've ever seen: a Chinese "educational computer" with a small built-in black & white CRT that runs what looks like MS-DOS (but isn't), but can also play Nintendo games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sskfhUpGRM

2024-11-28 01:40:42 UTC

My 2018 Jetta at almost 90k miles. But apparently LG smartphones have trouble maintaining constant white balance even when pointed at a big white object.
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2024-10-25 22:33:34 UTC

I've been using it for years, but I just discovered MPC-HC's ability to automatically generate a contact sheet of thumbnails from a video file.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/370/433/701/859/713/original/519447b610da8af1.png

2024-08-17 01:44:45 UTC

Four cassettes for one cent!
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