My buddy runs a 1998 Link-Belt and swears the new units don't have the same feel, says the old girl talks to him through the levers. He babies the hell out of it too, same lazy swing on hot days and all. There's something to a machine you know every squeak of, you just don't get that with a fresh one.

Who leaves the house without their RFID card and just hopes for the best? You basically won the EV lotto with that guy, my glovebox has had a backup since day one.

Oh man this one got me. I used to shoot Tri-X at 400 forever and thought muddy shadows were just "the Tri-X look" or whatever. Then a guy at my local shop asked why my negs looked so thin on the low end and I realized I was basically underexposing everything by metering for the bright spots. Started rating at 320 and metering the darks and wow, way more detail down there. My night shots especially stopped looking like a black hole with some random streetlamp floating in it. Still shoot 400 in good light but man, that lower speed really saved my indoor stuff.