Farewell, 5-Bladed Razor: I Will Not Miss You

Posted by Q under Consumption, Q's Musings

Over a year ago I decided to usher my shaving habits in to the 21st century and purchased one of those new-fangled 5-bladed razors at CostCo. I had been shaving with the same razor, a Gillette Mach III, for over a decade, and figured it was time to upgrade. Big mistake. The benefits of 5 [...]

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Techno-Love: Range Finders

Posted by Q under Consumption, Golf, Techno Love

When I first took up golf, my wife said, “Well, at least it’s not a gear sport.” I presumed she was kidding. It took us both a few months to figure out she wasn’t, and it is. The product cycle of new golf technology is now down to a staggeringly short six-month time period. Drivers [...]

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Techno Lust: Ogio Shling System

Posted by Q under Consumption, Golf, Techno Lust

9/10/06: Post 1.011 I have been meaning to take up golf for the better part of a decade now, but haven’t been sure that my body would be able to take it very well. Golf isn’t the most impactful game, but it does involve a lot of truncal rotation that I was not sure would [...]

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Waste Not, Save Not: Part II

Posted by Q under Consumption, Q's Musings, SF Flavor

8/29/06: Post 1.010 How I interact with my entertainment is an extremely personal, deep-rooted relationship. My television viewing habits are ingrained, dating back to the formative “on the couch in Tahoe” years of my early twenties. When one lives in a house of nine other testoserone-driven males one quickly learns how to “drive” the viewing [...]

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Waste Not, Save Not

Posted by Q under Consumption, Q's Musings

8/21/06: Post 1.009 I walked into the Sprint store last week with a very simple and straightforward goal: turn our existing three cell phone lines on two different carriers into two lines with Sprint. It is a long and convoluted story, but Michele and I had two existing numbers on Sprint, and I had another [...]

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