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Posts from July 2024


AITONE Phrase Loop AT07 guitar looper review and tutorial
2024 Jul 30

AITONE emailed and offered to send a looper pedal to me for free to review. I accepted. Any time I accept a pedal for review, it has to offer something good that separates it from other like pedals. With the AT07, it offers are few good things I really like. At the tail of this […]

i beat the crap out of my keyboard
2024 Jul 25

There was a time when I was all about . I stopped with all that nonsense once my hands started hurting from use of one of those. I would keep bottoming/"thudding" the keys. It did not matter what switch type I used. If the keyboard was mechanical, I would bottom the keys. Not good. I […]

chipotle has the worst chips i've ever tasted
2024 Jul 23

For a while now I've been avoiding eating at Chipotle mainly due to it being complicated. That restaurant is one of those places where you have to know how to order before even going in there. Some say that Chipotle is basically Subway, but instead of sandwiches it's burritos, bowls and tacos. Eh... sort of. […]

i'm very happy this printer type is still being made
2024 Jul 18

Many moons ago, I got exposed to one of the best damned printers ever made, the HP LaserJet 4 Plus. People love this thing so much that they are STILL reconditioned and sold on eBay to this day, STILL have , and STILL have repair kits and replacement parts made to fix them. That's the […]

Casio WSB1000 has one fatal flaw
2024 Jul 15

On paper, this thing sounds darned near perfect. But there's one thing about it that's not-so good. Bad, in fact. I really like that Casio has been introducing a good amount of squared-off digitals lately. There's nothing wrong with round, but LCD digits by their very nature are angular, so a square/rectangle shape totally works […]

online shopping is required in this modern clown world
2024 Jul 11

Certain events happen in my life that prove to me yes, this modern era is just plain dumb sometimes. Spiral bound memo pads in 3x5 size, with the spiral being a metal coil. A simple thing. It's been around a very long time. The spiral bound notebook itself has been around since the 1930s. I […]

the sad state of address search in maps
2024 Jul 9

Something I started doing about 16 years ago in the late-2000s is using direct GPS coordinates to get to places. Why? Address search sucked. It's not that the address couldn't be located, but rather the place I was directed to was incorrect. Sometimes the destination was a little incorrect by putting me on the wrong […]

how to cool down a car without air conditioning
2024 Jul 5

I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess it isn't, so I'm stepping up to the plate to tell you how it's done. Like many other people, I drive a car with four doors and power windows. But even if you don't have power windows, this can still be done.

press CTRL+F5 to pay respects
2024 Jul 4

Yes, I redesigned my site. Don't freak out about it. This is the first redesign I've done in a while. A long while, actually. Years, in fact. I have regular readers, so yeah I had to write about this. When a site has a specific design that it carries for a long time and then […]

browser bouncing
2024 Jul 3

I have to run three different web browsers just to get all the stuff done I want to. When I was using Windows, I bounced between Edge and Firefox. My Firefox was the one that had a bunch of add-ons installed to extend functionality. My Edge was kept almost 100% stock. The only add-on I […]

a list of brown and khaki casio watches
2024 Jul 1

While it's really easy to find a black Casio (I wear a black daily), there are brown and khaki color models that are definitely worth a look. In fact, I own one that I'll talk about in a moment. An earth tone color watch is a feelgood thing, and said honestly, it fits most men's […]

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