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Smart Home: Overview

Although I now have plenty of smart home devices, I would say that I started out as a skeptic. A lot of my reasoning came down to “It’s not that hard to just [walk over and flip the switch, run upstairs and check the windows, walk over to the thermostat, etc] now, so why would…

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Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea

On my recent trips to Japan, I spent some time at the Tokyo Disney Resort and visited both Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. Overview Growing up in Southern California, you are, by default a Disney person. It’s kind of a rite of passage. Your first trip with your parents as a kid is the high bar…

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iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard

I have been using iPads since the original one came out in 2010. iPads were primarily a secondary device – check email, browse the web, and watch movies on vacations – but that always meant I needed a laptop to do anything that required creating something. This all changed with the iPad Pro and the…

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Japan

Overview Japan had long been on my list of places to visit. Honestly, I put it off because I was afraid. It felt like too big of a challenge–the language, the food, and the culture. I was unsure of how I would fare in a country where the language didn’t use a roman script, where…

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