Monthly Archives: March 2020

Entertainment while Stuck at Home

While confined to home, we can’t complain. While our grandparents were asked to go to war, we’re being asked to stay indoors and wait.  The best thing we all can do now is to remain isolated until the crunch on the medical system passes. With streaming music, video, You Tube, TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and […]

Keeping our phones and keyboards safe

I’ve been hunkered down at home with my wife this week and expect what she jokingly calls “house arrest” to last indefinitely based on listening to our governor, Gavin Newsom. Along side me are my phone, a notebook computer, and  an iPad loaded with eBooks I’ve bought over the years, but have yet to read. […]

Thoughts on the coronavirus and traveling

These are the times when we need facts and scientific information to make good decisions. Yet in this political climate there’s so much obfuscation and bad information, it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s not. It’s clear we can’t depend on our president and many of these around him for accurate information. Today much […]

Streaming or Cable? Last thoughts

As part of my evaluation of streaming to replace cable (see my previous three posts), I purchased a Roku stick and remote kit ($40) and signed up for a month of YouTube TV for $50. The Roku was easy to set up – I just plugged it into a vacant HDMI port on the back […]