rich s blog, est. 2004
A little over a month ago, I bought a W221H, still have it, and it's still on my wrist. It's interesting what has happened in the month's time that I've owned it. The price online for one of these has thankfully dropped significantly, but only for the white one. The black version is definitely more [ ]
Given I'm a navigation nerd, I sometimes do map study. One thing that's amazing to me is how the entire southern half of New England, that being Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, is literally paywalled by New York. How? The Hudson River, that's how. To get into Connecticut or Massachusetts from New York, you have [ ]
I do not know if this qualifies me as a coffee snob or not, but I do grind my own beans and use a very specific amount of water to brew a mug's worth with. The coffee I use is not any highfalutin stuff by any means. All I use is . The coffee maker [ ]
I can totally understand why some would choose to buy a new phone instead of reset an old one, as the process of setting up a phone after a reset is seriously annoying. My phone was long overdue for a reset due to all the crap I had installed/uninstalled over time. Yes, there are "cleaner" [ ]
I read elsewhere someone complaining about the price of memory cards, and thought to myself okay, it can't be that bad... I was wrong. It is that bad. Since I have a bunch of old Garmins, I have a pile of 16GB and 32GB microSD memory cards. Just for kicks, I looked up . For [ ]
Because I just bought a new watch, of course I had to dive down the rabbit hole of watch influencer videos just to see what's up. Heh, yeah. About that. Kinda comical. Before diving deeper there, here a few truths when it comes to watches. The overwhelming majority of people who actually wear a watch [ ]
This might be the ultimate watch for a Gen X, because what it does get right it does very well. The last time I talked about this watch, I said nope, I'm going to wait because the price at the time was way too high. Since then, the price has now dropped to something , [ ]
I sincerely believe the future of internet communications is going to be email, IRC, tight-leashed forums and nothing else. And for everyone else, text messaging, which technically doesn't count as internet communication since it can operate outside of internet. The last time I actually cared about social media was about 15 years ago. At that [ ]
Late last year, I said I stopped using traffic reporting. Changed my mind on that. And now I'm about to change my mind again. Took a drive into a large city recently. My Garmin is directing me as usual, it gets a traffic report and automatically reroutes to get around it. I go where it [ ]
A lot of "advances" in car tech absolutely suck, but a genuinely good one that's been around for a long time is the fast click when one of your turn signals is out. Some genius figured out that hey, all we have to do to alert the driver one of the turn signals isn't working [ ]