Too many hobbies, not enough focus
i Retro Handhelds Series This is a continuation of my Retro Handhelds series. Read Part IV here. After all that collecting and configuring, it was time to play some games. Tetris The first game I went back to was one that I enjoyed the most on my original Game Boy: Tetris. Since that time I’ve …
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i Retro Handhelds Series This is a continuation of my Retro Handhelds series. Read Part III here. By the end of 2025 I had finished exploring sub-$100 handhelds and it was time to turn to the higher end. My 2022 Retroid Pocket 3+ was my most capable handheld, and it was fine, but I didn’t …
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i Retro Handhelds Series This is a continuation of my Retro Handhelds series. Read Part II here. Out of the Hobby Most of 2023 was quiet save for an impulse purchase of yet another Analogue Pocket, this time in transparent green. I could not resist even though I wasn’t using any of my handhelds regularly at that …
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i Retro Handhelds Series This is a continuation of my Retro Handhelds series. Read Part I here. It’s 2020, I’m a PC gamer, and had long since discarded every console except my Wii and PS3. The Wii is plugged into our TV “just in case” but we never play it and the PS3 is up …
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Most of us who grew up in the nineties remember the pop-culture products of the era: the Super Soakers, the Nerf guns, the Micro Machines, and the video game devices: the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Game Gear, Game Boy, PlayStation, etc. These products are part of our childhoods, part of our identities, and they …
I've covered a lot of larger topics from the podcasts, but there are a bunch of little things as well. Let's close out with my thoughts on some of the smaller items. Odds & Ends Myst (Episode 16 - June 2015) The hosts mentioned that Hulu had the rights to make a Myst miniseries. This …
In the last installment we reminisced on the Intel era and the one time Steve Jobs was publicly yelled at by developers. In this edition, we're looking at some photo books focused on Apple design and setting the record straight on the iPhone. Designed By Apple in California Simple Beep hosted two shows about Apple …
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In the last installment we reviewed the Butterfly Keyboard and iTunes 13 vaporware. In this edition we'll look at Intel Macs, angry engineers, and AI. Intel Macs Apple completed the transition to Intel in 2006 and Simple Beep celebrated in its January 2016 episode with a look back at the transition. They made some interesting comments and …
Simple Beep is a podcast focused on the history of Apple and the Mac community. It’s hosted by childhood friends Brian Sutorius and Ed Cormady, who discuss topics from Apple’s history and their experience with them. The podcast started in 2014 and released 90 episodes by its end in 2021. I’ve listened to nearly every episode, …
Back in the nineties, before USB was the common way to connect everything from keyboards to RAIDs to junk from Temu, SCSI was the king of fast storage connections. Macs had a form of SCSI since the 1986 Mac Plus and an entire ecosystem of hard drives, scanners, and removable storage drives were built around …
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