I own the Yeti AND the Yeti Pro. Yes both microphones. Why? They serve different purposes. If you want to read the Yeti review, you can find it here: http://techiefather.com/reviews/yeti-blue-mic-review Yeti Pro – How it differs How does the Yeti Pro differ from the Yeti? The main difference is the interfaces that the Pro has. The… Continue Reading
I was in the market for a new laptop to replace my aging 3.5 year old machine. This “old” machine, a Dell Latitude E6510, was no slouch. It had a Quad Core processor (core i7-720qm), along with a 500GB SSD hard drive, and a 500GB Hybrid hard drive, 16GB RAM, separate video graphics processor (nvidia… Continue Reading
Over the past week, the Orsa Youth Choir from Sweden was here in town. I spent a bit of time with them over the course of a few days, and one night they sang this lovely song. I posted it on Youtube and wanted to find the history behind the song. I asked one of the… Continue Reading
I was at the Big Blue And Yellow store recently, Ikea. I stumbled upon an interesting idea, Elderflower syrup. Actually they have 4 syrups: Blueberry, Elderflower, Lingonberry, and Rhubarb syrups. They look interesting especially since we make our own carbonated fizzy drinks. We could easily add one of these syrups to our carbonated water to make… Continue Reading
Since we’ve gone gluten free in our family, breakfast is turning out to be hard. I decided to try to adapt my grand-mother-in-law’s banana bread recipe to make a gluten-free banana muffin recipe. We’ve made this recipe numerous times now and they taste great. One can’t tell that they are gluten free. For the ingredients,… Continue Reading
Seltzer Water, Fizzy Water, Soda Water, Carbonated Water, whatever you want to call it, it’s easy and cheap to make at home. There are many people that have outlined how they make it at home, and I’m here to add my 2 cents, which is coincidentally about how much it costs to make per 2… Continue Reading
Wow! Burger King with a Veggie Burger? Well, I was curious if this burger patty was any good for your health. Luckily BK has their menu info online. The first ingredient list is for the patty, straight off their website: Vegetables (Mushrooms, Water Chestnuts, Onions, Carrots, Green Bell Peppers, Red Bell Peppers, Black Olives) Textured… Continue Reading
Since we don’t eat much processed foods, I’ve cut out about 90% of any regular grocery store. Plus I prefer to buy organic when I can. But it gets expensive. So I’ve got it down so that i get the best “bang for the buck” by shopping at 3 of my favorite stores. Costco, Trader… Continue Reading
Here are the links to the 2008 article and the 2010 article that I wrote earlier about saving water. We are still using less water than the typical american family and want to keep it that way. Continue Reading
I decided to go through the cabinets in our house and get rid of things that contain toxins. You would be surprised at what is toxic in your cabinets. First up is Food Coloring, more specifically, unnatural food coloring. All of them. This includes things like FD&C Red #40, or FD&C Blue #2 and the like. These… Continue Reading