Matt & Jen Simerson

Before buying HDMI or other cables locally, check the price on them at monoprice.com or Amazon.com. Both will have low prices. I buy almost exclusively at monoprice because of their cheap USPS shipping. For example, a 6′ HDMI cable is $4. A toslink female to mini male adapter is $0.66 (use this to connect a [...]

Have you had the chance to play with a Blackberry Storm? Or a Palm Pre? Did you get the feeling that the touch screen, the primary input device, just didn’t feel as good as the iPhone? I’m not talking about the ignored taps that the Google Android suffers from, but that, “darn, [...]

TV doesn’t just make you stupid and fat, it also makes you obedient:
…the manipulative power of television further increases people’s willingness to obey. – Fake TV Game Show ‘Tortures’ Man
Even the Iranian regime is willing to play Hollywood movies to entice its citizens to stay home and watch TV.
It makes me wonder what we’ll [...]

Playing a HD movie against the snow white ceiling of a snow cave is unreasonably appealing. Thankfully, the 3M MPro120 is priced high enough that I can avoid the temptation.

It’s Banks vs. Families, Who Will Come Out on Top?
The short version is that I studied the economics of the middle class and I began to see that credit products were becoming increasingly dangerous. Families didn’t know how much they were spending on credit and comparison among the products was practically impossible…
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The idea behind the [...]

The new Mustang ships with 305 ponies and gets 31mpg. The article doesn’t mention if the back seat has room for two child seats.