I Ditched Autopilot in favor of Super Cruise
I want to enjoy the best of driver assistance technology that’s available today. For me, that’s Cadillac.
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Our Home Theater on a Shoestring Budget, Part 3
In Part 2, I wrote about my quest for a decent-sounding audio system that was simple to install and wouldn’t break the bank. The Samsung TW-J5500 powered tower system was my eventual choice. In this concluding article of the series, I praise my TiVo and how it is the ideal video source for my project. … Read more
Our Home Theater on a Shoestring Budget, Part 2
In Part 1, I wrote about my plan to build a simple home theater on a budget and my process of selecting a projector and screen. This time, the topic is sound. I found out quickly that using the right terminology is very important in searching for audio equipment. In audio, the term “home theater” … Read more
Our Home Theater on a Shoestring Budget, Part 1
Setting Expectations When we set out to create our home theater for two, we knew we wanted a cinematic experience without spending a Hollywood blockbuster budget. Purists would say that we’re not building a “real” home theater, but my goal was to keep the number of components, and thus the cost and complexity, to a … Read more
Scott Treats Me Like He Owns American Airlines
A couple of weeks ago, I flew out of Columbus, Ohio on American Airlines. I was connecting in JFK, and since I had a tight connection time (gotta have words with my travel agent on that) I was getting concerned because the incoming aircraft had not yet arrived, and boarding time was approaching. I walked … Read more
Do pens to detect fake bills do any good?
I wonder how many counterfeit twenty-dollar bills are really caught by those “detector” marker pens that seem to be at most retail check-outs these days? Not many, I’ll bet. We were in Target the other night and I paid with a twenty. The clerk took my money, put it in the drawer, swiped The Pen … Read more