Robert Hall

Yeah, they have 5 Chevy dealers in the region...still a lot of ugly..

Watching the local news I saw an ad from a local dealer chain--they were hyping that they had 450 of the 'hard to find' Silverados in stock...if the lumpen uglies are so 'hard to find', why do they have 450 of them?

Polk has good stuff...some years ago a buddy of mine in Colorado was really into Dunlavy speakers..they sounded really, really good. My sister has a set of 70s vintage Magneplanar speakers w/ a vintage McIntosh receiver she had in her house in AZ, had a great warm sound w/ vinyl records, etc. All that gear is in storage for now, probably going to set it up in the eventual beach house.

Eventually I'll get an 8k...for now, 4k HDR QLED is fine. Next house.

I haven't tried Roku, long been a Amazon Fire TV fan, but my latest Samsung HDTV has all the apps I use (Prime, Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, etc) built in...

I was long a Sony and Toshiba fan for home theatre equipment, still have Sony blu ray and CD players...have a Yamaha receiver and Klipsch 5.1 surround sound currently.. (came with the house, still works pretty well).

The Compass and Renegade are well under 30k. Jeep got me hooked when I was 29... my first new SUV was my '00 Grand Cherokee Laredo--the entry level GC, right around 30k....20 years later still driving Jeeps.

Every city has problems w/ the poors.. not sure what the solution to it is. But I love the culture and energy of large cities..Cleveland has a vibrant downtown, lots of good bars and restaurants, the natural beauty of the lake and beaches, the river, the theatre district (2nd only to NYC in size), the symphony, great museums and universities...I love spending time in the city but love living in the burbs. And it's way cheaper here than Chicago or other larger cities.. Rural is ok for vacations, but couldn't do it full time..my Dad loved living on the farm, but I find it really, really dull out there.. not to mention it is very high maintenance and the isolation.

I think hers is a Galaxy 7...she's never had any issues w/ it. I like their TVs a lot.. I have a 40 inch Samsung HDTV that came with my house, was mounted over the fireplace..great picture, works fine...it's like 9 years old...moved it to my bedroom when I got a Samsung 65 inch 4K HDR QLED HDTV for the living room this past Christmas. Still have my Toshiba 55 inch HDTV in another room, it's 8 years old and still works great, but so heavy compared to newer flat screens...

I'm conflicted as to which worse. One thing the HD does better is the front fender and the corners. The regular Silverado is a complete mess with 53 conflicting lines and angles where the bumper, grille and fender meet.... just way overwrought.

Well, that's what the Overland, Summit, Trailhawk, Rubicon, etc trims are for...

I like tablets for lying in bed and reading books and magazines in the evening or on an airplane. The phone is too small for that. I do watch YouTube videos on my phone or tablet occasionally, but at home I just usually cast them to the Samsung HDTVs (65 inch in living room, 40 inch in bedroom).

Tundras and Titans look better than the Silverado. The Silverado needs everything forward of the windshield restyled and simplified...it's too busy, too much ugly going on IMO...not sure which is worse, the regular or the HD.

Though I'm a long-time iPhone fan, I am impressed w/ the Samsung Galaxy line of phones. My sister's is 3 years old and it's battery life is still strong..great camera and screen also....my iPhone's battery life is as horrible as it has always been. Samsung does have some solid products, love their HDTVs...

I remember the reviews..like after a few uses the screen was bulging and you could pry it loose w/ a fingernail.

Mercedes engines are generally known for their long life, but as with any modern vehicle the electronics are the weak sauce to long term reliability. And some of their engines have weird design flaws. I'm sure one could get a million miles out of a GM LS engine, and it would be way cheaper to maintain than an MB to that point. Not that I would want to get a million miles out of anything, I'm not a masochist. 100k miles is more than enough for me with one vehicle...

I don't like the larger phones because they don't fit in pockets as easily, and a larger phone is harder to use with one hand...with the 7 I can hold in my left hand and use my thumb to launch apps anywhere on the screen..can't do that with a larger screen. I like my iPad and Kindle Fire for reading books and magazines, sometimes watching videos... I don't really want a phone that thinks it's a tablet. Different use cases.

I wonder how well these folding screens will hold up to daily use, though. I do like the idea of smaller phones. I really don’t want anything larger than my iPhone 7, but it seems everything is considerably larger now.

Maybe they need to turbocharge their supercharged engines, or supercharge their turbocharged engines...like Volvo does.

They have 3 affordable cute-ute models to get people into the brand, though...Renegade, Compass, and Cherokee..

GM's core issue seems to be management incompetence. They come out with an all new engine in a car being cancelled. That's incompetence. Their trucks are horrifically styled. The Camaro is so badly designed as to be unusable as far as outward visibility. That's incompetence. The C-suite is full of imbeciles. Actually, engines have been one of M-B's core engineering strengths for decades.

The Gladiator is a novelty more than anything else. Basically a better riding Wrangler with a large trunk. Not a lot of market for it compared to a regular pickup.

They all look better than the current Silverado, though...

The Rock Star is a neat little package. I got a 1/64th diecast one recently for my collection.

Despite being suburban and a couple miles from a couple busy freeways, my 1967 vintage neighborhood is very quiet. No streetlights, lots of wooded lots, houses relatively close together but not like a modern subdivision. I enjoy the quiet. For sleeping, I love the sound of the ocean. The constant roar of the surf. The night I was in Daytona Beach last week I slept really well. Even 8 stories up I could hear the surf. I need more beach time.