(Warning! Extreme Geek Content to follow.) Is Mail 3.0 set to be a GTD killer app? I’ve been an OS X early adopter long enough to keep my expectations down-to-earth. Last night I paid homage at the Apple Store, got my free Leopard t-shirt and a copy of the new 10.5 system. Here are my…
I have the upper body strength of a ripe banana–as my kids are quick to point out. So my new goal is to get ripped like a rock climber…or to at least be able to do one pull-up by the end of the month. To that end I installed a Metolius Slim Gym in the…
It was just about a year ago I bought my first Land Rover. It was a beautiful car and I really enjoyed driving it. Just not that much. I didn’t get more than five miles from the car lot before the temp gauge pegged. I spent more time trying to get the dealer to take…
If you’ve spent any time pounding your brains out on washboard roads in your Jeep, take a gander at this Youtube video of the Bose Suspension System and tell me what you think. (The Bose system is set to deploy in about five years on high-end luxury cars. Can you say Land Rover?)
I’m just getting over a hypochondrical bout of necrotizing fasciitis and now there is this to worry about–BRAIN EATING AMOEBA. The primary means of infection, according to KPHO Arizona, is through the nasal passages of youths who go cannonballing off cliffs into warm water lakes…take Lake Havasu. Please. One way to avoid certain death from…
Congratulations my lovely daughter. I love you and wish many joyful years ahead for you and Matt.
One hundred and fifty F-ING days without rain in the Southland and it’s going to peel off and piddle on the weekned of Matt and Emma’s beachside wedding. Same thing happened 20 years ago when Maureen and I got hitched. Oh well, the French baker said it is a good sign if it rains on…
It’s about time that I grease up my quill and start penning a couple of wedding toasts…or my name is, well, Toast. Rabbi Gellman gives this trenchant advice on toasting: “Being successfully sober is much easier than being successfully funny.”
Before you stock up on 6V lantern batteries to cash in on Lifehacker’s Get 32 AA Batteries from a Single 6 Volt Battery tip, take a gander at the horrifying discovery I made tonight (in a frantic effort to scrounge up enough batteries to power my Pignose amp.) Inside a 6 volt Heavy Duty Eveready…
It’s been a busy weekend. As some of you know, my daughter is getting married next Saturday. But you’re never too busy when you’ve got a dead blue whale in your backyard. In between trips to Smart and Final for Ginger Ale and phony champagne glasses I joined the human carnival that was keeping vigil…
Somebody at Tread Lightly knows their event-triggered marketing. I just got a nice little email form letter from Tracey Hackworth thanking me for my participation as a Friend of Tread Lightly. I’m guessing this is an automated response based on a trackback ping because of my post below? Dunno. Because I don’t think Tracey actually…
I just got a hit from someone looking for “easiest gps for hiking and highways.” If any of my intrepid reader* knows the answer to this, please post a note in comments. My guess is that we’re talking about something along the lines of the Garmin eTrex Legend CX Handheld GPS Navigator which uses uploadable…
There was a great One-Show wining ad for a store going-out-of-business sale that read “Oh Sure, Now You’ll Shop Here.” In an effort to try and avoid winning a similar One-Show Golden Pencil, Borealis Expedition Adventure Resource (BEAR) in Thousand Oaks, CA, just sent out a plea to its mailing list asking for corporate partners,…
Tread Lightly! is some kind of mysterious organization designed to make moronic 4WD enthusiasts (such as yours truly) feel better about ripping up nature. But here’s the best part…as an incentive to join you now have the opportunity win all kinds of cheap crap from China.
 No, we’re not talking about letting her rip. We’re talking about Treehugger’s latest survey: is a frog shaped can-smasher bad design because it teaches kids to stomp toads. Geez, Treehugger. Give kids some credit. This thing is bad design because you can just as easily smash cans with your forehead.
