Posts by Bruce Sallan
You’ve Got a Smart Phone, Now USE IT!
My wife and I went shopping the other day and I asked my wife to check the hours of a store she wanted us to go to, on her smart phone*. She said, “I don’t have the number.” I said, “Just find it on your phone.” She said, “How?” I nearly got in an accident!…
Read MoreEvolution of Technology – Vinyl Records
AKA Bruce’s Guide to the Evolution of Technology and His Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Part Two* With Guest Co-Author, Professor David E. Weber The Evolution of Technology series continues with the record store and vinyl records, aka lps, records. Going to the record store now seems such a quaint memory, sort of like the Beav…
Read MoreEvolution of Technology – The Transistor Radio
AKA Bruce’s Guide to the Evolution of Technology and His Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Part One* I so vividly remember my first portable radio. It had such an exotic name for the day – a transistor radio! For many of us, this changed our lives. Portable music. What a radical concept! This will be the…
Read MoreMy New Year’s Tech Resolutions
Bruce’s original hand-written New Year’s Tech Resolutions I think it’s only appropriate to make some New Year’s Tech Resolutions. This will be my first set of specifically “Tech Resolutions,” so we can easily go back next year and see how well I did. I will have no excuses! I’m a very realistic and practical guy,…
Read MoreI Have to Change My Printer Cartridges AGAIN
It’s taken me a while to understand how printers work. See, it’s a scam. That is why they’re always on sale. You can always get one “included” in a package deal when you buy a computer. The printer cartridges are always included. Many of them now claim that they’ve improved the printing quality by providing…
Read MoreTypewriters to Texting
The wonder of effective communication hit me powerfully the other day. I was sitting in the lodge at Mammoth Mountain, my ski resort in Southern California, early in the morning before the lifts had opened. My wife was eating breakfast, I was drinking coffee, and I wanted to check on a dear friend who lives…
Read MoreExercising Your Brain
I was thinking about exercising my brain. Some may call it “brain games,” but I’m basically referring to using my brain in an active manner. While I tend to write the BTT rants and other lighter fare, there is the occasional time that something serious is on my mind, though my wife would argue otherwise. …
Read MoreWhat Is a Letter?
When I grew up we put playing cards in the spokes of our bikes and liked the sound of the putt-putt-putt it made. We put a book on a roller-skate and thought we were geniuses when we’d ride it down the hill. The record-player, aka “hi-fi,” in the living room was a piece of furniture…
Read MoreI’m Afraid to Take It Out of the Box
Okay you young tech guys; let’s get some context here. When I was a kid, I opened the toys I got right away. I couldn’t wait to get to my box of log cabin logs. I strapped on my Roy Rogers gun set and was testing my quick draw instantly. Of course, my Etch-A-Sketch immediately…
Read MoreText, Steve, Text
My kids text. I text. In fact, my younger son only texts; he doesn’t talk on the phone anymore. But, some of my adult friends refuse to learn to text and my wife barely knows how and responds…usually…within a week or so. This is a problem for those parents that want to be at least…
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