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Some more cool places I forgot from last trip Lac Thai. Terrific Thai food. Get up to the third floor. Take your shoes off. Make sure to have the soup as the main course. Ciao. Coffee shop. Again the third floor is really comfortable. Across from Sun Wha Quan an ngon. Amazing traditional Vietnamese food.…

From the last trip to Ho Chi Minh City, always like to collect a list of conveniences and places to get things. It’s amazing what a few queries can produce. Anyway first some random facts on connections from Seattle. Best flight in terms of time is for an afternoon flight BTW if you are concerned…

Time once again for the annual review of calling overseas. Let’s pick a random example country and see how low the rates can go. For instance, if you want to call a Vietnam cell phone, what are the costs From US to Vietnam Cellular If have a mobile phone and sign up for AT&T World…

There are so many units out there and iLounge doesn’t spend much time reviewing these days as the market has stabilized, so what are the best systems out there for sound: Boston Acoutics Horizon Duo-i as a clock radio Logitech lead for a while with the discontinued Anywhere High-Performance (A) which beat the Bose Soundeck…

After spending a week listening for 8 hours a day to channel 16, I can’t help but wonder about the origin of the various strange terms. Why is French the language of the maritime trade for instance. Anyway, for all those classic things you here, what do they really mean? Out. You should normally never…

Wow there r so many. Apple is truly creating an amaIng franchirse. When u get yours here are the top 5 new apps I love and the top 5 I use over and over. 1. Cardstar. This let’s u put all your loyalty cards into your iPhone and it generate scanablr bar codes on your…

Putting aside policy issues and so forth, what a great time to get rid of that really unreliable, expensive to maintain, battery eating,  gas guzzling Volvo 850 and get something light and efficient. Here are some choices like the Nissan Cube and maybe some others. Reviews coming! Or if you really want to get off…

OK, I’ve tried a zillion headphones. From Shures to JVC to everything highly reviewed. I’m still back to the Etymotic ER-4P. Lost these on the plane and got them back. Main reason besides the amazing sound is that they really fit. The Shures are a semi-isolating. You get 10dB of silencing. The ER-4P really fit…

Thanks to twitter of all places, here are some great quotes and other things that suite my mood right now on this glorious early summer morning 🙂 Anais Nin (1903-1977) “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new…

Strange problem with iPhone 8.0, when I press on the slideshow button for an event, nothing happens, then when I click again, the screen goes blank like it is trying to do a slideshow and then returns to the main iPhoto screen. Nothing on the web on how to fix, but feels like either the…