4 posts tagged “catamaran”
Ziszor
Portable Paper Shredder
Link: Ziszor
A Wireless Toaster
Karen Toast Conger, of ToastFloats, used to work for WatchGuard, a network security devices company. As a parting gift, she was given a very special toaster. Her colleagues bought her a Cuisinart toaster, took it apart, and put a WatchGuard Firebox X Edge wireless router into it. A wireless router, security device, and a toaster.
Listen to Episode 557
Go to TWiT
The Giz Wiz Home Page
Tom Bihn's Western Flyer
Travel Bag For Laptop
Link: Tom Bihn
Leo has the Western Flyer, but recommends the SuperEgo for Dick, who can take an Ego Strip with it. The SuperEgo can carry Dick's laptop with room to double up as an overnight bag. For the ultimate briefcase, try the Empire Builder.
Extras include the Horizontal Brain Cell (an insert for storing your laptop), the Absolute Shoulder Strap (which tucks away neatly inside the bag but turns your bag into a messenger-style bag), and the Freudian Slip (a briefcase organiser).
Dick has been using a Targus bag for his laptop (probably the Targus Flare Backpack in Episode 394), but is now sorely tempted to get a Tom Bihn bag.
Toasting Don Quixote
Karen Toast Conger, who lives aboard a catamaran and travels around the world with her family (Episode 512), has taken up Leo's invitation and sent him a photo of her boat, the Don Quixote. It's a Lagoon 380 catamaran. You can see Toast's boat on her website, and on Flickr too. She and her two young girls sing along to the Letters Jingle.
Listen to Episode 522
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Read Dick's Write-Up
Photo Studio In A Box
Mini Photo Studio/Photography
Link: American Recorder Technologies
New Look for Dick's Website
As reported in Episode 500's blog entry, Dick's website has a new look, and Dick has just noticed that he's put at the top of the home page: "This website no longer contains trans-fats." But Dick thinks that the letter read out yesterday (from Bill Mulligan) came before the new website came up. Indeed, Dick and Leo talked about DGW being free of trans-fat, cholesterol and starch in Episode 498.
Gadgets, Science and Technology
Karen Toast Conger (from Toast Floats and Toast Floats Blog) and her family are full-time live-aboard cruisers on their catamaran in the Pacific Northwest. She regularly download TWiT podcasts to learn about all the things she can't afford any more, but DGW does offer news of affordable boat-worthy gadgets, such as the Liquid Image Underwater Camera Mask (Episode 484) and the WaterBob (Episode 319), which Karen calls the Bathtub Water Bladder. She recommends the link on Dick's website to PowerBoat Magazine for boat gadgets.
Karen also says that the gadgets we love are a by-product of science and technology, and believes that we must get to know about the science policy and plans of the next American president. There is a proposed presidential debate devoted to science and technology - Science Debate 2008.
Jerkstopper Unplugged
Leo also refers to a letter sent to him by Bob Harris, who was prompted by the Jerkstopper (Episode 507) to write about a piece of free software for Mac which alerts you when the power cord for your MacBook becomes unplugged, called Unplugged, from Brik Software.
Listen to Episode 512
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Read Dick's Write-Up
Sanyo SPT-1500 Sportable
Portable Cassette Player with Pedometer
From 1994, the Sanyo SPT-1500 Sportable was a portable and "sportable" Walkman-style cassette tape player, with alarm clock, AM/FM radio, a pedometer and even a metronome that you could jog to.
King Of Comedy
Leo is reading the book "King Of Comedy" about Jerry Lewis and highly recommends it. Leo would like to have an unauthorised biography of himself which will have nothing about Leo in the book and will be called "I Never Met The Man".
New York Times Review
The New York Times review of Dick's book Good Days and Mad had some wonderful things to say about it, except that the reviewer thought that Dick talked an awful lot about himself. Of course no one should do that in an autobiography.
A Catamaran for Leo
Steve Castelli from Buffalo, New York suggests a sail boat for Leo, a catamaran with a solar motor. Unfortunately Leo has gone off the idea of yachting, until he gets the Totino account. For the time being, he'll get a dinghy which he will sail on the local tidal slew, or a kayak for Jennifer.
From the Bahamas to Canada
Dick has sailed all the way the Bahamas to Canada, done the St Lawrence Seaway, and loves the canal system in upstate New York.