Last year, FastMac announced the U-Socket. Designed to replace a wall outlet, it adds two USB ports for charging devices. Given that I had a plethora of devices–from my bike computer to my phone–that are USB charged, I pre-ordered three. After a year of final development, discussion with Underwriter’s Laboratory, and production, I finally got [...]

Vintage Star Wars action figures, and a circa 1997 Hot Wheels Mars Sojourner Rover.

Every so often, I’ll have a pen with some issue that takes me a bit to resolve. Sometimes, it’s finding a tool or a part. With some pens, it can be tricky to identify what is needed and a supplier who can provide it. Other times, it’s deciding what the best course of action is. [...]

When my daughter was younger, there were pink beanbags for sale at a kiosk at the mall. She loved to go there and lay in them. My mom got her her own pink bean bag, with kitties and her name on it. She hasn’t used it as much as she used to. Eddy has recently [...]

Confession: in middle school, I liked Duran Duran. OK, perhaps that is a more shameful thing for a guy to say in high school in the mid-eighties, but there you have it. Of course, they didn’t make things easier. While their first three albums were pretty good, he slide to pretension was swift aft that. [...]

Now I’ll never get to use it!

I wanted to share a few more photos from our trip to Louisiana. First, a few years ago, almost as a joke, my mom started a flamingo-themed Christmas tree. It took on a life of its own, until now it is her main tree. My wife and I took a walk along the lake. I [...]

In addition to going to the zoo, we walked around the French Quarter. That night, my mom watched my daughter, so my wife and I got to go out. We got some incredible pecan pie at the Camellia Grill–I didn’t know they had a location there. We also walked through Jackson Square. In addition to [...]

…and they all ask’d for you. While in Louisiana visiting my mom, sisters, etc, we took a couple days to go to New Orleans. Naturally, a zoo was involved, the Audubon Zoo. They had a lot of flamingos. Flamingos were the favorite of my mom, along with elephants. They had two white tigers, who were [...]