Lay's "Szechuan Chicken"-flavored potato chips are not particularly tasty.  Please let this serve as a warning to you.

Nice way to start your day.

It's a rare day when you wake up and find an email from your wireless provider saying "Hey - we're cutting our rates.  Have a nice day".

If those sound good to anybody and you feel like trying Ting, I do have a referral link you can use that's good for a $25 credit on your account (or $25 off of a new phone from the Ting store, however you want it).  I have zero qualms about recommending Ting to anybody with fairly moderate data needs.

Sesame Street - the neighborhood's just not the same.

So long, Bob.
So long, Gordon.
So long, Luis.

At this point, let's just rename it to "The Insipid Elmo and Fairy School Show" and quit pretending it's got any continuity ties to the Sesame Street that I grew up with.

Yeah, I get that Bob, Gordon and Luis are old as the gum stuck to Oscar's trash can at this point, but it's still a sad thing to see them 86'd from the show.

Truth - much truth.

All infotainment systems are terrible.

Good idea / Bad idea

Fun: Getting a new electronic toy

Not fun: Not getting to play with your new toy because it's gotta spend the first hours of its life downloading 1.5GB of system and app updates.

However: Yay for a new phone and Yay for Ting making it absurdly simple to activate one (even a CDMA one).

False in Advertising

If you're going to name your company "Weatherproof Vintage", I think you have some responsibility to make sure your clothes are either Vintage and/or Weather-proof.

No, what we have here is just a plain old button-down casual short-sleeve shirt.  It might stand up to sunshine and a light breeze, but not rain, snow, sleet, monsoon, locusts, etc.

Phone Home

At the $250 price point right now:

• Brand new pre-order Motorola G4 Plus (64GB storage / 4GB RAM)
• New LG G4 (32GB / 3GB) released in 2015
• Refurb Samsung Galaxy S5 (16GB / 2GB), released in 2014

New hotness, a lock to get later versions of Android, but massive, lower specs and untested?

Last year's flagship with a great camera and full warranty, but might not see an update to Android 'N'?

Two-year old flagship of reasonable size (5") and waterproof, but probably only about as powerful as the Motorola, only a 30 day warranty and unlikely to get an update to 'N'?

I'm thinking way too hard about this and my wife is laughing at me.