Get there without getting lost

by Mir | Feb 19, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

Y’all know how much I love life with a GPS unit in my car. In fact, I love it so much, I feel moved to express myself in haiku: Wondrous GPS— You prevent me from swearing; I arrive on time. I know you want this sort of inspiration, yourself. (Really, who...

I believe this is called gadget lust

by Mir | Feb 10, 2009 | Product Talk

Oh. Oh, no. Guess what’s now available for pre-order? Guess what’s probably never going to go on sale, and I’m never going to own, but I would consider swapping you one of my children for? Yeah. The new Amazon Kindle. Wouldn’t that make an...

Backpacks shouldn’t be crippling

by Mir | Feb 3, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

Okay, I know I just posted a free shipping code for Lands’ End a few days ago (code MENS and PIN 6724), but I thought I’d take this opportunity to point out a great deal there. If you’ve been reading me for any length of time at all, you know that...

Extremely shiny

by Mir | Jan 26, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

I’ve become obsessed with flat-screen HDTVs. Maybe it’s because the Super Bowl is coming up, or maybe it’s because I know I’m too cheap to buy one until our television up and dies, but either way, I’m scouting them out. For you. Because I...

Groovy Nuvi price

by Mir | Jan 21, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

I own a GPS unit that doesn’t have text-to-speech; that means it tells me to “turn right” or “bear left” but doesn’t speak street names, which occasionally drives me slightly insane. I want one with text-to-speech because I consider...

So you wanna go Blu-ray

by Mir | Jan 20, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

Me, I don’t need the latest technology to be happy. But some folks do, and even those folks probably had a coronary when they realized how much Blu-ray players typically cost. Ouch. The good news is that one of the best of the bunch is currently on sale at...