Bruce
Bruce Sallan
Free wireless internet, aka Wi-Fi, is the miracle tool for every mom and dad that has to wait around for their kid, at soccer practice, at their music lesson, another school activity, etc., when there’s no time to go home, the location is out-of-the-way, and we parents have 45 minutes or so to kill. Free…
Read MoreMy 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!…
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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…
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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 MoreBruce’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 MoreIt’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 MoreThe 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 MoreI 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 MoreWhen 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…
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