September 2008
3 posts
Timbuk2 2Way
The modern man’s pockets are more crowded that an Apple product launch. The Timbuk2 2Way is a great way to free up some real estate in your bulging pant sacks. It attaches via a Velcro band to the strap of your shoulder bag or backpack and can hold most modern smartphones close enough to your chest that you can still feel it vibrate when you have a call. It even has an extra pocket...
Esquire Magazine
We’ve recently reintroduced Esquire Magazine to a couple of friends who were all pleasantly surprised. Far from being the bourgeois periodical devoted to sartorial elitism, Esquire is now better described as Maxim for adults. The writing is excellent and the content is informative. The What I’ve Learned column has some great tidbits of wisdom from people with lives far more...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
OK, I know what you’re thinking. “Hemingway? That’s a boring oldie-tyme book! Why would I want to read that?” Well I’ll tell you. For Whom the Bell Tolls an kick ass story about an American man on a mission to blow up a bridge during the Spanish Civil War. It is written in Hemingway’s unflinchingly sparse prose and bounds along at an incredible...