I decided to give the GE Coffeematic another try. It's been almost 20 years since I last used it, so I wanted to see if it was as bad as I remember. It's been stored in a plastic bag, so it was still clean, but for good measure, I "brewed" a full pot of plain water in it first. Then, using the same ...

After Hurricane Sandy, we had no power for 2 weeks. We did have gas, but we had to light the stove with a match and make coffee with our camping percolator...which only made 2 cups at a time. About a year later, I bought a 6 cup Corning percolator like we had when I was a kid: http://image0-rubylan...

I have been using a Cuisinart Grind and Brew since we got one as a gift for our wedding. I believe we are on our 3rd or 4th now in 18 years, which isn't a great track record, but considering the moving parts and that we use it everyday, at least once a day, I make an exception. Add to that it makes...

To the "bitter" coffee issue, for me, that seems to be more a matter of what coffee is used, how much is used, and how long it sits in the carafe. Had a friend tell me once that if you put a "pinch" of salt in with the grounds, it will help with the bitter taste, but it never really seemed to make ...

Isn't the white appliance his battery powered automatic popcorn maker? :magnum: He got that later on (Professor Jonathan Higgins [5.13]), and it was quite a bit different than his Presto PopCornNow Plus: http://i.imgur.com/KZgrPdf.png http://i.imgur.com/bFGgDZS.png And I think he only ever used it ...

The two KKC shirts pictured in this thread have the number 44 on them. When did he wear one with a 44 on it in the show? The ones I remember have a 14, such as in the surf-skiing clip used in the seasons 7 and 8 title sequence: http://i.imgur.com/rfwMiQn.jpg Was 44 an earlier version of the shirt? I...

What are those two appliances between the Coffeematic and the blender? The brown circular thing just looks like an ice-bucket in the top picture. Don't know about the white conical thing - were juicers around in the 80s? It's a hot air popcorn popper, specifically, a Presto PopCornNow Plus, like th...

http://i.imgur.com/Glp2yhn.jpg That's a General Electric Coffeematic. It was part of the first wave of automatic drip coffee makers, which started with the introduction of the Mr. Coffee brand machine in 1972. Automatic drip machines rapidly supplanted percolators in popularity, which, in stovetop,...

Higgins. I find his stories, and personality in general, entertaining. Plus I like to ramble on about the technical details of my various interests, and he's probably the only one of the four that would care about such minutia, and could even contribute minutia of his own on most any topic. Next wou...

Is there anything more specific that you believe he stole aside from the idea of making a show about Magnum's daughter? If not, then I doubt you have a case. Spinning off / rebooting an old show or movie via a son or daughter of a main character from the original is probably the most common and obvi...

Thanks for the comments. This was a fun project. I want to mention a couple of things which you may already know: It is best to wash and dry these shirts inside-out. This applies to all printed shirts, not just these ones. Washing and drying inside-out minimizes abrasion against the print during the...

I didn't think Sinatra's acting was very good in this. For the most part it was okay, but his head-shaking reaction to the guy getting killed by the bus, and his punching through the glass/mirror, were both very wooden/scripted-looking. His beatdown of the guy on the roof at the end was terrible; no...

Personal/home computers were still rare even in the late 1980s. There were millions of e.g., Commodore 64s, Vic 20s, Atari 400/800s, Apple ][s, TI-99/4As, TRS-80s, and so on, out there throughout the '80s. To this day, the Commodore 64 is still the best selling computer of all time. At one point du...

Oh, that would be great! Do you have a source for MV going Blu Ray? I posted this in a different thread: Supposedly there's two complete series Magnum, P.I. Blu-ray releases in the works, one for Region A and one for Region B: http://www.blu-ray.com/search/?quicksearch=1&quicksearch_country=all&qui...

(As an aside, Magnum appears as a good example of the stereotypical ubiquitous Ugly American encountered around the world in other countries, as he exhibits anger, frustration, disrespect, ignorance, ingratitude, a disproportionate impatience to get outta Dodge, a basic loud pushy bumbling presence...