The Good News About Chromebooks: Part Five

If you’re convinced that your next computer is going to be a Chromebook, then good for you! You have seen the light and accepted the good news about Chromebooks; but which one should you buy? In this, the final installment of my “Good News About Chromebooks” series, I will try to help you shop. The …

The Good News About Chromebooks: Part Four

The Minivan of Computers Before we get started here, as a reminder, I'm migrating over to Substack. After this series, I don't plan on doing WordPress content, for the time being. Substack seems like a better platform for what I'm trying to do here, so please subscribe and feel free to share: https://georgeg.substack.com/?r=pdyid&utm_campaign=pub&utm_medium=web For most …

The Good News About Chromebooks: Part Three

Chromebooks Are the Best - but why, exactly? In my previous installment, I covered what a Chromebook is. Now I’d like to go over some points about why you should buy one. Simply put, you should buy a Chromebook because Chromebooks are the best. Let me state the ways in which they are the best. …

The Good News About Chromebooks: Part Two

What is a Chromebook? (Or what is a computer, for that matter) What is a Chromebook? I’ll give a few different answers: A) My short answer: It’s the best computer for you. That’s really all you need to know. Need a computer? Get one that’s called a Chromebook. B) Google’s answer. It says a lot …

The Good News About Chromebooks

I have good news! The good news about Chromebooks. Consider me John the Baptist, a voice crying out in the Best Buy. Dramatic? Maybe, but there are parallels. The world wasn’t ready for the message of John the Baptist, (it made him end up as the origin of the phrase, “head on a platter” as …

Finding My Niche

Confession: I'm a little taken aback by how weird my latest post was - the one with the unboxing video. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I feel the need to defend it (yes, defend it to myself). Against the advice of most self-help books, let us indulge my self-critical …

Opinion: Family-Style Dining is Terrible

“Family-style” ordering for a group at a nice restaurant is pretentious, dumb, a bad idea, and simply the worst. It is a frustrating, unsatisfying, logistical dumpster fire of an experience, and it is always wrong, no matter what any of you say.  There are three big drivers for the crime against humanity which is “family-style” …

Well… Bye

The last time I published a blog post was June of 2020, when I was wrestling with whether to leave social media (and I was also learning about the behavior of ostriches). I have since come to a resolution. Drum roll and trumpet fanfare please: I have deactivated Twitter and Facebook, and thrown away the …

Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I've been thinking about ostriches today. I feel like leaving social media. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are often described as "toxic" and I certainly am becoming easily discouraged, cynical, and irritable. Perhaps I would be happier without social media. The trouble with leaving the social media world is that there's …

For Lent, I’m Using an iPhone

Photo by Arun Thomas on Pexels.com Want to hear perhaps the weakest, most 1st-Worldest Lenten resolution ever? I'm using an iPhone as a Lenten penance. It's a petty insult to Apple users, so it's actually an actively uncharitable practice. Furthermore, I'm announcing this penance, and that’s exactly what Jesus (the inventor of Lent) says not …