Back when I was a kid, I used to watch a lot of late night comedy shows on broadcast tv (we didn't have cable)... well I'd actually record them and watch them the next day as I wasn't allowed to stay up late enough to watch them when they aired. I even dubbed my favorite comedians sets onto […]
My wife and I signed to buy a house 12 hours ago and I’m wide awake at 3:30am tossing and turning not with buyers remorse but with negotiators remorse. I say that because I learned a ton doing this transaction that I wish I had known before our negotiation yesterday, and though I got a pretty […]
My wife and I visited the local "Stu Miller's Pumpkin Patch" in Summerlin Las Vegas on the NW corner of Flamingo and Grand Canyon today with our 20 month old boy. We had a good time walking around taking pictures in the pumpkin patch. We had a fun, but our boy was too small to […]
Our 5 year old Simmons Beauty Rest spring mattress recently hit the end of its practical lifespan. My wife was no longer comfortable as it really sagged at our waist areas, and the amount of turbulence when one of us rolled over in the middle of the night would wake the other up. Unfortunately, mattress warranties […]
Trying to save some money a while back, I set up an old iPhone on a mini-tripod for use as a baby video monitor. It worked fairly well but crashed just about every night, making it useless to monitor the baby in the morning before getting out of bed. Plus it didn't work at night […]
My wife and I were recently had a Steinway & Sons grand piano shipped from Seattle to here in Las Vegas. We used a national shipper, who it turns out is actually a middle man who trucks the piano across the country, but contracts the pick up and drop off to local piano movers. When […]
I recently replaced the battery on my iPhone 5 as my phone would quickly lose power during the day. When I first got my phone, I could go pretty much a whole day without needing to charge. And that included taking lots of pictures and video as well as spending time texting and using social […]
UPDATED: 8/24/15 I can pretty much tell if a person's been rock climbing for a long time just by looking at their neck. People who spend a lot of time belaying (looking up for a long time) develop this reverse "c" curve to their neck from craning their head all day while looking up at […]
I often record at the lowest bitrate on my Cannon VIXIA HF20 mini camcorder to save space. The camera has multiple recording speeds with LP being the lowest bitrate and MXP being the highest. MXP videos take up about 4 times the space as an LP video of the same duration. For example, an 8 […]
Somewhere around a year ago, my wife and I were looking for entertainment via Netflix streaming on our Wii, and we ended up watching the documentary "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead", which is about some Australian guy who's got too much money to sit around and do nothing, so he decides to health up by […]