The Asus Eee Pad Slider Honeycomb Tablet Review on HotHardware acts as if the Asus Eee Pad Slider Honeycom Tablet is the first Tablet to have a slideout keyboard. However, it is not. I still have my Acer Travelmate C200 from 2006, which has the same feature. The only difference is mine is a Tablet PC that requires a stylus, while the new Asus Eee Pad Honeycomb is a modern Tablet or Slate (or whatever you want to call them) with a touchscreen. Either way, it really is a good design and would probably break less then all the ones that have the screen that rotates and can be flipped over.
Asus Eee Pad Slider Honeycomb is not the first Tablet with a slideout keyboard
September 30th, 2011Posted in Hardware
How to Make a Bigfoot Call
September 2nd, 2011Posted in Television
If you’ve seen the TV show Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet, you may have seen the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) making Bigfoot calls late at night in the wildnerness to try to lure the Sasquatch in.
I’ll be honest, the yells are impressive, but I’m not sure the Skunk Ape or Yeti will ever appear outside of blurry photographs or shaky videos.
Brush Script is Good at Very Small Sizes
July 29th, 2011Posted in Design · Tags: typography
If you need a script font at a very small size and you want it to be readable, Brush Script is the font to use. Unlike most script fonts, it has a thick and rather uniform width across the pseudo handwritten penstroke (which is what makes it so ugly in the first place). However used very sparingly and at small sizes, Brush Script can pull off what other handwriting fonts can’t and still look decent.
Bed Bath & Beyond – Redesign Please
June 12th, 2011Posted in Web
First of all the Bed Bath & Beyond site breaks my middle clicks so I can’t navigate with multiple tabs (a tab for different categories), because they use JavaScript links. The HTML is not valid at all, DIVs are used like tables for that nasty navigation to even work. Seriously they could fix that and improve SEO. End rant. 
Savings Accounts and Why They Won’t Make You Rich
May 19th, 2011Posted in Uncategorized
Every year we get sent some Social Security paper work, showing how much we have paid into the system and how much we would get if disabled or an estimate on retirement. However, one of the charts bugged me a bit.
The note that says “assuming a 5% annual rate of return” is out of date. Interest rates on Savings or Money Market accounts haven’t been 5% for well over two decades. Even CDs haven’t been 5% for over 5 years. And do you really think that in 40yrs that $300,000 is going to be enough to retire on (especially with inflation)? But not only that the US Government taxes you on the interest you earn every year anyway, which isn’t even mentioned.
Even if you save more money each year, interest on savings accounts have not been over 1.5% since the 1990s. The interest rates have been so low for so long people think .02% is 2% and it’s not. Which makes me wonder why people even use big banks when Credit Unions generally give better interest rates and don’t have as many fees. Although the only banks to offer even about 1% right now for Savings are online banks.