What Happens When You Send Me a Letter?
An educational behind the scenes look at how incoming mail is processed
Benjamin Bryan
Making Free VoIP calls from your Android Phone
Rainy day, time to finish up this blog post. Raindrops coming down… So Eli and I did a little exploring of VoIP solutions and found four to enable free or low cost calling on phones with unlimited data plans (or over wifi). I tested using the LG Optimus V from VM and the Droid Charge … Read more
Debt
As of April 13, 2011 United States debt: $14,279,000,000,000.00United States Population: 310,383,000Debt per U.S. Resident: $46,000.00 California Debt: $368,502,000,000.00California Population: 37,555,000Debt per C.A. Resident: $9812.00 So, our family of three owes: $167,000.00 We don’t make that kind of money so the government will have to wait until Eli makes enough money to pay it off. … Read more
Complaining About Gas Prices?
Here’s how to be happy when gas prices go up by hedging your fuel expense: Set a reasonably high gas budget, perhaps 25% higher than your average monthly expense. Whatever is left in your gas budget at the end of the month, move to your brokerage account. When you have enough money (say $1000) … Read more
Apple’s Stock Hitachi Vs. Kingston SSDNow V+
This is why your next computer upgrade should be a SSD. I ran the following tests on Apple’s stock Hitachi 5400RPM 320GB: 1. Cold boot2. Logos passage guide on 1 Kings 8.3. Open IE from Windows 7 in Parallels “cold” boot.4. StarCraft II load 4v4 map with 7 AIs. I then replaced the hard drive … Read more
We Are Now a Droid Family
Ben: HTC Incredible Kris: LG Optimus V Eli uses his parents droids for now.
Usability Failure of Baby Clothing
Should be color coded snaps.
Brilliant Super Bowl Commercial from Motorola
Motorola’s genius marketing department hit Apple with a Super Bowl commercial. I think a lot of people wouldn’t understand what Motorola is inferring about Apple, so I’ll explain it. For reference, here’s some great commercials from Apple: Apple’s 1984 commercial… And Apple’s 1985 Super Bowl commercial… And Apple’s tribute to the crazy ones, the misfits, … Read more
Best Invention Ever
(via Popular Science, issue July 1933, via John C. Dvorak)