Posts from November 2024

I drive an older car with with no screen in it (unless you count the gas gauge which is a tiny LCD panel), and given I've been using Garmin GPSes for almost 20 years, that's the only screen I use in the car. If I weren't using a for navigation however, the alternative is actually […]

I've been to a good number of restaurants over the years, but I am one of those people who sincerely believes eating out was better in the '90s. Early-to-mid '90s, specifically. I used to think this was all in my head, thinking yeah, I'm older now, so of course I'll say eating out was better […]

Part of the reason I'm thinking of getting a Telecaster again is because it's a guitar that agrees with me. I can work with a Tele even if it has really ratty sounding pickups in it. But then there's the . I actually have played one of these and do genuinely like the guitar, but […]

Near-end-of-year guitar update. No new guitars acquired - yet. I am entertaining the idea of a new Telecaster.

The 512GB USB stick can be had for , which I like. I'm waiting for it to dive below $30... ...but I'm still waiting for the 1TB USB stick to drop below $50. Has it?

Over the years, I've bought many Casio digital watches. I still own a small pile of them, but I've also bought and returned a few - some on the same day I bought it. I'm going to list a few of the good and the bad, and the reasons for each.

I've talked about little GPSes before, and I recently acquired another. There's just something cool about a small tech thing that can do a big job. This time around I got a model that was never released in North America, the Garmin Drive 40LM. This little guy only has a 4.3" screen measured diagonally, and […]

Daylight Savings Time, which just happened 3-Nov-2024, is something I've never liked. And I'm pretty sure most other people can't stand it either. Both smartphones and the older feature phones auto-update their clocks for DST and always have, (or do they? More on that in a moment..) but there are a lot of clocks that […]