When they first started talking about the COVID Alert app, I wasn’t sure what to think of it. There were two things about the descriptions I had heard that didn’t sound good. First, they called it a contact-tracing app. I had visions of this short film, all being done by this app. I had visions […]
Category Archives: gadgets
Reminiscing About Tansy’s Second Trip To Her Raisers
As always, after I’ve taken a trip, I take forever to blog about it. This one was almost a year and a half ago. But I felt like writing it down because if this garbage Coronavirus hadn’t come along, I would have likely been back there this week. Back in March of 2019, when life […]
It’s A JBL Flip Your Lid 5!
I’m trying to unravel a mystery, and hope that maybe writing about it will help. So…Friday night, we had to accept the fact that Steve’s beautiful iPod dock bit the dust. Well, the dock itself is probably fine, but the cord that went from old ass iPhone 4 port to lightning port got frayed and […]
If Alexa or Google Gives You Some Bad Info Now and Then, Don’t Be Surprised
I know I have written before about a kid picking on her virtual assistant, but I’ve seen another version of this, and this one seems even worse, in a strange way. Here’s the ad in question…almost. Apparently this ad was made for the Super Bowl, and we got a slightly abbreviated one. In ours, she […]
What A Strange Bug. I Have Questions
Apple released a new version of iOS this week. I installed it on my phone this morning and so far, the world hasn’t ended. So why am I posting this, then? That would be because of this random line in the release notes. Fixes an issue that causes some phone calls from Saskatchewan to appear […]
Cars, The Floppotron Edition
And now, the Floppotron takes a crack at Cars by Gary Numan. I’ll let somebody else make the cars and drives jokes. Even I have my limits. *I totally do not have my limits.*
Wannabe, The Electric Toothbrush Edition
I’ve seen quite a few pieces of electronic equipment modified into playing music, but never electric toothbrushes. I had no idea you could do that, but as evidenced by the five of them I just watched play Wannabe by the Spice Girls, I was very, very wrong.
Too Distracted By Your Phone To Drive Properly? There’s An App For That, Because That Makes A Lot Of Sense
New app targets distracted drivers with traffic alerts Maybe I’m the idiot here, but it strikes me that the only app we should need to tackle distracted driving is one called the power button that shuts the fucking phone off while you’re driving because clearly you don’t have enough self control built in. Instead of […]
Siri Is Much Funnier Than Google
If you have access to one you might already know this, but your digital assistant (Google, Siri, probably Alexa) will tell you a joke if you ask. I do this sometimes for my own amusement or in search of a joke I can send to my family. Plenty of these jokes are not very good, […]
It Used To Take A Lot More Work To Automate A Radio Station
Radio hasn’t always been centralized and computerized to death the way it is now, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been automated to some degree practically forever. That process is obviously much easier these days than it used to be, but how did they manage to pull this stuff off before everything was digital? […]
