Is The New MacBook a Hybrid?
I got hooked on Macs shortly after IBM no longer provided me with ThinkPad loaners. Macs are addictive. As Steve Jobs said many times, “It just works”. The time to upgrade my 2014 MacBook Pro had arrived. It is not nearly as old as America’s voting machines, but the new Apple MacBook Pro intrigued me. I […]
Apple – Underwhelming Products?
The WSJ reported today about Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 7. It said the product looked “practical, but not jaw-dropping. As usual the analysts don’t seem to fully appreciate the seamless integration Apple offers or the incredible new technology inside the iPhone. The new cameras and image processing capabilities truly are jaw dropping. There was a lot of criticism […]
Apple – A Disappointing Quarter?
The WSJ reported today, Apple “grappled with the first prolonged slump in iPhone sales since the product was introduced in 2007.” True enough, but I remain bullish about Apple. The company shipped 40.4 million iPhones in the quarter: 449 thousand every day, 19,000 every hour, 312 per minute, 5.2 per second. Nothing can go straight up to the moon–as […]
Is America’s Infrastructure Crumbling?
During Motorcycle Trip 2016, we saw a large amount of heavy construction taking place in all 11 states we traveled through. When politicians talk about America’s crumbling infrastructure, they usually refer to roads, bridges, and airports. These are important but there are many more areas of equal, or perhaps greater, importance. For example, traveling through […]
Motorcycle Trip: The End
Final statistics: Total miles – 2,869, Motorcycle miles – 2,032, States traveled – 11, Days – 16. Day 15 began with a 63 mile motorcycle ride from Palm Coast to Sanford, FL. The Amtrak Auto Train station was very efficient and the staff was friendly. The fifteen cars were boarded by 487 passengers. The 22 […]
