A Nitto Tire with about 22,000 miles on it looks like most tires with about 50,000 miles on them.
Having bought a set of Nitto tires, I thought I would share some positives and negatives about them.
Positives:
They are black.
They are round.
Negatives:
They wear out as if made of some combination of vulcanized rubber and powdered…
I bought Microsoft Band 2 a few weeks back ($200). I'd looked at the Band 1 a year ago and was a bit scared off by its extreme flatness; the Band 2 has a nice arch. I jumped on it.
This post is about heart rate monitoring accuracy, but before I go on, the Band 2…
Linguistic geniuses? ( Wikimedia photo)
I have been super impressed with Boko Haram over in Nigeria recently. Not so much because of all the murdering and kidnapping. It’s their ability to squeeze complex meaning into such small phrases. Think about it: “Boko Haram” means, roughly, in the local Hausa language, “Western education is forbidden.” That’s four…
The path of least resistance is not always the most interesting.
The in-laws are Winter Texans, as this particular species of snowbird calls itself. So every year or two, we trek down to South Padre Island and spend a week on this strip of sand. I tell my daughters it will be gone by the time…
Walking off a short jog yesterday with an old friend from Canton, Ohio who lives in Sydney and has kids with strong accents, I came across a man flying a drone over a house around the corner.
"Louie, sorry man, I've got to talk to this guy," I told my friend.
Louie has known me for 25…