New logo, less Simon-like, but still no product! By Jeffrey the Barak. We all still wait, or maybe we don’t. I titled this article Waiting for Google Chrome, part 20, but I’m not really waiting so intently as I was in the first 19 parts. ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak Words cannot adequately describe Arne Jacobsen’s iconic mid-century designs, but it’s always nice to view a few of them in one place. So this is not an article, it’s just a vision massage. Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak Following a recent failed revamp of the original infamous fattening American Food Pyramid, the USDA has introduced The Food Plate. It really is quite simple, and easy to see that half of our food should be fruits and vegetables. It should ... Read More
By Nasir Hashir. I live in a small town in California. I was born here and my parents have been here since the 1960’s. Because my older brother was a hot rod enthusiast, my childhood sports heroes were low-budget independent drag racers, and not football, ... Read More
The November 2011 L.A. Auto Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, California USA. (click twice on any image to see it full size) Honda Civic Instrument Panel For years, the-vu has been lucky enough to have a couple of writers attend the LA Auto show on ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak A Rant about multiple LinkedIn profiles. I don’t use LinkedIn. (Linked In, linkedin.com). I really don’t need to because I’m not in the kind of business where I need to network with people and I don’t have a job working for ... Read More
A response to the Doking HD By Jeffrey the Barak The Doking HD is car made in Croatia. Most cars are of course not made in Croatia, but this is not the most unusual aspect of the Doking HD. It is an electric car, and ... Read More
Douglas Fairbanks as The Black Pirate (1926) By Jeffrey the Barak. Novels and movies have glamorized the image of the pirate. We can imagine ourselves dressed in puffy shirts, with swords at our side, swinging on ropes between various high points of ships rigging, sailing ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak I spend most of my waking hours in front of a 27″ iMac. Not that I’m complaining. When I’m not working, I play here too. But sometimes I have to actually leave my desk and be in other places, and then ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak How to make twenty-four dollars sound like ten. It seems like a bargain, only ten bucks, and then they’ll throw in a second one for free, “just pay separate shipping and handling”. But that’s the catch. Shipping and handling may be ... Read More
