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Vibe Report: New Tires! [Updated 2x]

by JHF on February 22, 2010 · 0 comments

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Well, that was a fast way to spend $478!
You won’t believe how long I agonized over what tires to buy. Then again, you might. The thing about pursuing the perfect car-nut tires when you’re living on the frontier is that one has to endure the cry of the Taos merchant: “We can order them for [...]

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Woild Music

by JHF on February 14, 2010 · 3 comments

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This is ostensibly a computer post, but hang in there. Yes, the topic has come up before. Forgive me.
I’ve just been listening to Internet radio with an indispensible Mac app called RadioShift. It’s by the fine folks at Rogue Amoeba, and with a name like that, it has to be good or people will break [...]

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Hitler & the iPad

by JHF on January 29, 2010 · 2 comments

in Technology

This won’t make sense to the masses, ’cause it’s an inside joke in the Mac community. Knowing German makes me strain to understand the actual dialogue, which is pretty intense, and that kind of gets in the way of the comedy for me. But check it out in any case, and see further below for [...]

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All-Night Geekathon

by JHF on January 14, 2010 · 9 comments

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It all started with a late evening email. Or maybe it started with the chair.
I have a new one, you see. I’m sitting in it right now, and I don’t want to get up. (You can read more details here.) The office chair I’d picked up several years ago at a business moving sale had [...]

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Not Just for Geeks

by JHF on July 20, 2009 · 3 comments

in Technology

Have you ever had your computer shut down suddenly during a power outage and lose what you were working on? Or even worse, was there damage as a result? Well, I have the solution for you: the APC 750G 10-Outlet power-saving Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS).
This item is more than a surge protector: inside the case [...]

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This is too good not to share, and besides, I need to try some new embed code. (This works extremely well in full-screen mode on a 24-inch iMac, I gotta say.) Behold, a silent wonder slipping through the sky:

 

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New iMac Reactions

by JHF on May 20, 2009 · 6 comments

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I‘m still not sure what motivated me to do this, but I sure did it: I’m typing this now on a new 24″ iMac, and it’s pretty damn incredible.
Right now I’m thinking, oh my God, it’s just too big! And maybe it is — after three years on a MacBook, this is like being [...]

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If they’d only had the printer I wanted, I’d have come home from Albuquerque with one of these!
As some of you know, I’m posting this from an original MacBook (1.83 GHz, 2 MB RAM). For three years now I’ve been doing all my Web work on this laptop with its glossy 13″ screen. I put [...]

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Pontiac Vibe Report

by JHF on April 3, 2009 · 5 comments

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[I had a request for this, so here you go:]
The delightful Pontiac Vibe, aka Toyota Matrix with a different body (2007 model purchased new in February, 2008), now has about 17K miles on it. Most of those are from in-town driving, believe it or not. I’ve been using Mobil 1 since about 1,800 miles. I [...]

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AT&T & Verizon Idiots

by John H. Farr on February 23, 2009 · 11 comments

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Well, it was fun to write that title. But I am lacking the satisfaction that would come from hearing that both of them were bankrupt.
Explanation: as an Apple customer for over 20 years, I really, really wanted to get an iPhone when my Verizon contract expired, as it recently did. So I went to the [...]

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I Love This Phone (LG enV2) [Updated]

by John H. Farr on February 22, 2009 · 11 comments

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I don’t feel like taking a picture, just google the damn thing. But it’s a very good cell phone.
My experience in this area is absurdly limited. I do know what I hear and see, however, and I have never been able to hear as well as I do when using the LG enV2. It’s not [...]

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“Well??????” — A Tale of High Geekery

by John H. Farr on February 9, 2009 · 2 comments

in Blog News, Technology

It was a webmaster’s worst nightmare, and it wouldn’t go away.
I’d had less than four hours sleep each night last week, working on the new FarrFeed, and was ready to crash early. All Sunday evening, I’d been trying to figure out the PHP code for making a block of text appear on just one particular [...]

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