Archive for the 'Gadgets' Category

Regarding TravelPro Luggage

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

I see so many flight crews carrying (pulling) TravelPro luggage that I knew one of two things had to true:

The crews get a significant discount.
The crews know it is of high quality and worth the cost.

I finally got curious enough to ask the crew of a recent flight and it turns out the answer is […]

Best of Both Worlds

Friday, November 9th, 2007

I’ve looked at the iPhone and while I can see myself really wanting it, the lack of 3G data I can tether to the laptop has been a minus. I also speculate that my fingers and its touch keyboard would not get along well, though that is mainly speculation. Of course, being on Verizon also […]

Shooting With a Nikon VR Lens

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I brought my camera, along with my new VR lens, to the Blue Man Group concert (more performers should explicitly allow cameras like they did).
The VR certainly worked as advertised, I was getting sharp pictures at 200mm with only a 1/30 shutter speed (one elbow on the chair back for stability but otherwise handheld).
Of course, […]

Sam Waterston Save Us!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Last night I found out my parents were going to an analog auction and I thought it might be fun to hold up a paddle while an auctioneer on speed called out prices, so we packed up the kids and headed over to join them.
The first thing I learned is that small kids and an […]

I’ve Been Can-Passed

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

And friends, somewhere in Washington, enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints.
Ok, so replace Washington with Ottawa and fingerprints with scan-of-my-iris and you have the general idea.
As you may or may not know, I fly to the United States on a fairly regular basis. It seems that […]

Gimme!

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Anyone looking for my last minute gift idea, check these out:

I got a notice email just today announcing that the USB Cell Batteries are now available in North America. It’s a nice idea that I would love to use to power my bluetooth mouse that runs on two AA batteries, allowing me to charge the […]