Several years ago we started replacing the light bulbs in our house with LED bulbs. LED technology had been available for at least a few years before that. We delayed in embracing it because the cost was high at first. A package of LED bulbs often cost 10x what a package incandescent bulbs with the same light output cost. When the purchase price ( Read more... )

Wow, it was almost a month ago now Hawk and I made the decision to upgrade our phones. We've actually had the phones in our hands and been using them for a few weeks. How's it going? Although the transition process was ridiculously difficult our new phones are easily a win- and a very inexpensive win- over the phones we replaced ( Read more... )

Our new iPhone 16 Pro phones were delivered Wednesday afternoon. They told us it'd take a few weeks, but then the phones shipped in 3 days. Woohoo, fast delivery, amiright? Ah, but then came the fun part. We'd physically gotten the phones but we still had to get them to workYears ago when we bought new phones we'd go to the Verizon store (or AT&T ( Read more... )

Right after I posted my almost-leaving-for-Mexico blog from the United Club Lounge yesterday morning I saw this little number: a robot busing dishes.

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The first thing that struck me was, "Yeah, this is the kind of thing that happens when we raise the minimum wage." I'm not anti-labor or anti-paying people living wages. It's just the reality of ( Read more... )

There's been quite an uproar in the press over the last several days about a manipulated photo of Princess Kate and her kids. Kensington Palace released the photo a week ago to combat rumors that the Princess of Wales, who's not been seen in public since abdominal surgery, is in ill health or even dead. The picture shows her happy and healthy with ( Read more... )

One of the cool things about vote-by-mail in California is that I can track the progress of my ballot through the counting system. This isn't unique to California; at least a few other states that do widespread vote-by-mail have it, but it's different in states that have been taken over by the vote-by-mail-is-a-fraud liars and the fools and ( Read more... )

There's an interesting way to put time into perspective, and especially what events you consider recent or not-so-recent. It's to compare when two things happened versus today. One basic pattern is, "Event (X) occurred closer to Event (Y) than today ( Read more... )

This week I'm involved in another technical training workshop. Yes, I attended a training workshop two weeks ago. This is another one. This time it's not about a new product of ours but a course to help my team bolster its skill on an important industry technology, Kubernetes. It's also being conducted remotely, so there's no travel involved- for ( Read more... )

We had a blackout in my neighborhood this morning. The lights flickered then died for a few seconds, then came back on for about 30 seconds, then flickered and failed again ( Read more... )

It's now been 6 weeks since I bought my first iPad. I had doubts about whether I'd find it useful. Sadly at the one month checkpoint I found my feeling that it's a third wheel proving true. At the 6 week mark nothing's different. I did have another flying trip (to Austin last week) where the iPad could have proved useful. Recall on my lengthy ( Read more... )