What the fuck is a kilometer

"What the fuck is a kilometer" is a phrase often uttered by Americans who have never experienced the beauty of the metric system. Usually the phrase is enjoyed with eagles screeching in your ear and guns being fired. No matter how many times they were taught what a…

Dear Amazon,

You are the biggest e-commerce company in the world and it's not even close. Well, you're not even an e-commerce company. You have your hands in AWS 🤑, advertising, Prime Video, and AI. It really should not be hard for you to keep your storefront safe. Every…

My favorite Oculus product

I have a VR headset. A few, actually. Two of them are Oculus headsets, though the only one I actually use is a Valve Index. I'll probably write about the Index later, but today I'm going to talk about my favorite Oculus product. I got my…

$600 $300 Headphones

Last year I was gifted a pair of headphones for my birthday. I love them. They sound great, have decent battery life, and the noise cancellation is good. That said, I have a few gripes with them. Before I get to the issues, here's what they look like:…

LEVEL8 Got Me on CLOUD9

Back in the days of the unibody MacBook Pros, you know, the thick ones with optical drives, I was at an Apple Store. To protect my then-modern MacBook Pro, I got a LEVEL8 13" laptop bag, and it was the best fucking bag in the world. The padding inside…

Why does nobody sell 22" 4K monitors?

As both people who read this blog know, I am a Macbook user. I have used various models for years now, but I got my first "Retina" Mac back in 2016. Retina is a mildly useful marketing term meaning that your eye can't make out the…

Goodbye, Rec Room.

The following is the exact review I left for the game on Steam. If you would like to read it there instead, click here. 1,743 hours. That is how much time I have spent playing this game, according to Steam. This, of course, does not include time spent playing…

Dunning, Kruger, and Chromebook

This will be another story about an interaction on Discord. For the first one, see the bagel post. The user that this post frequently mentions has consented to their name being used. I was chatting on Discord a day or two ago, and a user asked about how to get…