Reading Time: 2 min Despite my constant desire for the latest and greatest technology, I’ve held onto traditional TV delivery until today. We did some digging and just made the switch from Uverse TV (which was really pretty solid) to a handful of streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, YouTube TV and Sling TV. When AT&T added fiber internet to our […]
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A Chromecast on every TV
Reading Time: 2 min I’m a big fan of Google products for two main reasons: 1 – In general, they’re pretty great products (Gmail, Maps, Docs, etc). 2 – They tend to work on every major platform. Item #2 is why I encourage people to choose the Google Chromecast over Apple TV (or Amazon’s Fire Stick) when looking for […]
Friday Favorites 4
Reading Time: 2 min Every week I come across new things that I find interesting, and most of them turn into blog posts. However, I also stumble upon a lot of other items that aren’t worth a full post, but are worth sharing. Here are some from the past week. TV Show: Powerless It’s cheesy and may not last […]
Friday Favorites 3
Reading Time: 2 min Every week I come across new things that I find interesting, and most of them turn into blog posts. However, I also stumble upon a lot of other items that aren’t worth a full post, but are worth sharing. Here are some from the past week. Game: Stardew Valley If you take a little Minecraft, […]
Friday Favorites 2
Reading Time: 3 min Every week I come across new things that I find interesting, and most of them turn into blog posts. However, I also stumble upon a lot of other items that aren’t worth a full post, but are worth sharing. Here are some from the past week. Game: Dots & Co It’s the third in a […]
Friday Favorites
Reading Time: 4 min Every week I come across new things that I find interesting, and most of them turn into blog posts. However, I also stumble upon a lot of other items that aren’t worth a full post, but are worth sharing. Here are some from the past week. Game: Flick Kick Field Goal With all of the […]
My favorites things in 2016
Reading Time: 3 min With 2016 behind us, I thought it might be fun to look at some of my favorite things from last year. Favorite phone I ended up using six different phones last year, largely related to the Galaxy Note 7 fire fiasco. Mine never caught fire, but the various recalls were messy. Droid Turbo 2: I […]
Wilt Chamberlain could have been better — can you?
Reading Time: 4 min Malcolm Gladwell has produced some great content over the years, and a recent podcast of his had some very eye-opening thoughts. Malcolm spent most of the podcast with Rick Barry, a basketball player who famously shot his free throws underhanded (“granny style”), as seen here: Wilt Chamberlain, one of the greatest basketball players of all […]
A timeline of Louis Zamperini’s journey
Reading Time: 2 min I just finished reading “Unbroken“, at the urging of my wife, and it was a great book! It inspired me to create a Google Earth file that shows all of his adventures, but I was unable to find a simple timeline of his events. By working back through the book, and using various other online […]
Disney’s technology was surprisingly lacking
Reading Time: 2 min Our recent trip to Disney World was great — we had a blast! However, a few things struck me as very technologically inferior and I thought I’d share them here. First, though, I’ll touch on what they did right. The card they give you when you check-in is amazing. This single card allows you to: […]