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Don’t bother with the big hotel chains. They’re nice, but they don’t offer much in the way of character, personalization, or memories. A boutique hotel offers all three. They’re usually owned by a more local organization, put a ton of effort into capturing the atmosphere of wherever they’re located, and…
The Man Booker Prize was established in 1969 and, for nearly fifty years, has honored the best of the best English language novels. Being the readers we are, we try to keep up with the winners, since the prize is basically a guarantee that you’re going to be getting a…
Every fall, video game releases ramp up. It’s when blockbusters come out, indies sneak into the lineup, and generally when gamers run out of money. This year, the gaming mainstays aren’t as exciting to us. Battlefield V hasn’t shown us much to get excited about and we haven’t paid attention…
Video games have come a long way since quarter-operated arcade cabinets. We’re not disparaging arcade cabinets. The opposite. We love them and we have been known to patronize the occasional arcade bar. We’re just making the observation that there’s a lot more potential for storytelling on the modern PC or…
Hard drive storage capacities have exploded and per-gigabyte prices have dropped, which means you can get yourself a huge external hard drive for a price that would make your head swim a few short years ago. Today, external hard drives are a full terabyte on the low end of the…
Alcoholic punch has suffered a bit of a dip in popularity, and by bit of a dip we mean its popularity almost completely evaporated since its peak in the 17th and 18th centuries. The invention of the cocktail eclipsed the punchbowl, although invention is a generous word, since cocktails are…
We don’t always want to go fast, we don’t always want to shoot lots of zombies, and we certainly don’t always want to find ourselves stranded in space. Sometimes all we want is a video game that’ll help us chill out after a long day. A game that doesn’t play…
Obviously there are movies you like you’d watch a million times. Those aren’t what we’re talking about here. What we’re talking about are those movies that can’t be fully appreciated in a single sitting. You might love them right away, but it could take you another handful of viewings before…
Reddit has a lot of opinions. Some of them you don’t need to listen to. Other ones, like when they put together lists of great mobile games, are worth clicking through. If you do, you’ll probably find yourself a few new distractions. And really, some of the suggestions are so…
If we’re being perfectly honest, there’s still a lot we don’t understand about the modern Stock Market. We get the basic idea behind it. You buy stock in a company, then that stock increases or decreases in value depending on the performance of the company along with other factors. But…
At this point in our lives, super expensive cars are a form of vicarious living for us, not a realistic purchase. So let’s live vicariously a little more. The 1966 Ferrari Dino Berlinetta GT is expected to sell for somewhere between two and three million dollars, which seems low as…
If someone could please tell us why certain beers taste so much better while we’re camping, we’d be very grateful. Our main guess has to do with being outside hiking or fishing or swimming all day, then coming back to the campsite to relax outside, then eventually heading to bed,…
We might be in the killer heat of summer, but we can hope there’s a cooler fall around the corner. Then we’ll get back to camping weather, along with a ton of other great outdoor activities that won’t drench you in sweat. For when we do, you’ll need containers to…
Bikes are enjoying more popularity in the US than they have in awhile. The 1990s and early 2000s saw a significant rise in commuting cyclists and while that growth has plateaued these past few years, there is still general growth predicted for the future. Bike shares are getting more and…
Aside from staunch traditionalists and divers, we can’t think of anyone who really uses their watch as a tool anymore. As much as we like them, most of us consider them accessories. We use them, definitely, but they’re not indispensable the way they used to be. For example, before the…
