Posts from October 2024

Recently, there was some plumbing work that needed to be done where I live, and it required me to not use the water at all. I had to go without showering for a few days. That was something I could deal with, since it's easy enough to wash with a wet cloth. But what really […]

According to StatCounter, Microsoft Windows 11 has only commanded just barely over 36% of United States market share per the last three months. I'm being generous, because had I used the last 12 months of data, it would have been barely 31%. I know 36% isn't "nobody", but still, that's pretty low... I switched to […]

I consider Halloween to be the weirdest holiday of the year, because I don't even understand why it's called a holiday. I've never known anybody to get October 31 as their day off or be paid time-and-a-half for working that day. Halloween gets even weirder for the following reasons:

Counting steps is a form of exercise that does work - conditionally. I say that because whether you can actually do it or not depends on a few things. Right now at the time I write this is a fantastic time for step counting because it's mid-October. It's cooler outside and humidity is down. The […]

I was excited to see the new 2025.20 North America map update had been released. Given the giant Garmin nerd I am for automotive models (I own way too many of them), I got to see what happened after the update on everything from the current all the way down to the old and a […]

The Casio W213 at the time I write this is , but not for long because it appears it's being discontinued in the North American market.

I'm dating myself here, but the first video game consoles I ever played were the and . I also played games on the and . After that came the , and I was more or less the exact age Nintendo was targeting when that system was released. I also had a at one point, then […]

Every year during the fall season, all the Halloween stuff gets put out for sale in the grocery and department stores. The vast majority of what's sold is crap, except for the candy because it tastes better. I explain why that is here. The other thing that's worth buying are highfalutin candles, if you get […]

On my wrist as I write this is my trusty . I wear it because it has almost every feature I want out of watch. The one thing it's missing is multiple alarms. But it has the countdown timer with auto-repeat (I use that often), great legibility, and is light in weight. But if I […]

Email. As in messaging on the internet that predates the web browser itself. Before there was browsing, there was messaging. Why? Because it's just text, and that's the smallest, simplest data you can transfer. I use email to organize my life, so I get all sorts of super nerdy when it comes to using it […]