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The Grovemade Studio Pad is one beautiful desk pad, with more functionality than just about any other desk pad available. However, it hasn't been a slam dunk for me.Every desk accessory that comes out of Grovemade’s Portland design shop rockets to the top of my list. The Grovemade Desk, for instance, is the most tantalizing office product I can think of right now, as is Grovemade’s new rolling cart. But the product that started it all off was the Studio Pad. And being it’s the most affordable…

The M5 iPad Pro is such an awesome iPad, but it's the nano-texture display that puts it over the top.The M5 iPad Pro has reignited my love for the iPad. I have used iPads since the beginning of time, and no iPad has been more fun for longer than this 11-inch M5 iPad Pro. But, it's likely not due to the M5 chip. For me, it's a return to the 11-inch format, and the introduction of nano-texture to my iPad usage.I’ve owned too many iPads to count. Of all shapes and sizes, too. Each time I try a new…

An entire review dedicated to just a Watch band, you say? Where I could spend 1,500 words writing about the Apple Watch itself, why would I choose to spill about Apple’s own Titanium Milanese Watch band?Because it’s that good. TL;DR: The Titanium Milanese Loop is the only Apple Watch band you need. Titanium keeps it light, durable, and understated. The latching clasp is genuinely secure — no magnets to fail — and micro-adjusts to your wrist whether you're mid-workout or standing in the cold.…

The Crossway Heirloom Veritas was one of the most surprising Bibles I've ever reviewed. In the best way possible.It’s very nice when, occasionally, a product surprises you. If you’re an average consumer, usually that surprise goes only one way: negative. You purchase a product with high hopes, only for the product to let you down. But when you are lucky enough to receive a product to review, the opposite is true: you’ve seen a wide range of products in a particular category, so surprise tends…

Another Sunday is here! Welcome friends. We spent five days camping in a one-bar-of-LTE-but-still-won’t-work area last weekend, so this is the first installment of the Sunday Edition in a few weeks. The days off were a good recharge, but I also can’t say it was fully enjoyable. I’m not sure a person can go from a long period of heavy work to instant shut-off without a slower pullback of sorts. I think things were too abrupt for me, and it impacted our time away.This week marks the sixth and…

Happy Sunday, dear friends. We are nearly at the halfway mark of the 2026 year, marking what feels to me like the fastest pace ever. Where has the time gone? I am nearing the final days of a 13th completed tax season. I have close friends and colleagues entering their 60s, discussing retirement or selling major assets they worked a long time to build. My children are growing up, asking harder and harder questions, and discovering who they are along the way. It’s sensational — the Experience of…

Happy Father's Day! Father's Day is one of the best days of the year. I’m biased, for sure. We get gifts, we get to play golf, and we get to put our feet up. It’s wonderful being pampered. But obviously, it’s far more than the pampering that has me entering “Proud” and “Joyful” in my Bevel mood journal at the end of the day.Being a father is easily the most rewarding role in the world. Early on, it’s a grind — sleep, poop, eat, sleep, poop, eat… it gets to you (and is far harder on mothers, to…

Happy Sunday friends! We had an exceptionally short spring — temperatures went from 2 or 3 degrees to 30 degrees in about 24 hours, and this happened close to the end of May. The result: Perhaps on steroids, like any normal Manitoban summer, we have every activity under the sun packed into the next 3 months. I neglect to use the words “I’m busy”, but boy we are not wanting for additional activities.In a different life, I would have called myself a “product reviewer”. I never hit it like many…

Happy Sunday friends! I’m back! Who knows for how long, but I’m back. It’s been great to let go of The Sunday Edition for an extended period of time. Though I don’t connect much with others who blog, I imagine it’s common occasionally to hit a roadblock in your head. Burnout. Boredom. Take your pick. Like any fun hobby, a guy has to take a break from time to time.This extended “sabbatical” provided some time to ponder what The Sunday Edition has become and where I think it properly fits. Sunday…

The Google FitBit Air is the first Google product I’ve ever purchased. Above: The Google FitBit Air with Fog band.I have never pre-ordered a product as fast as I pre-ordered the

This is a terrible solution for running Windows software on your Mac through Parallels: Lowering the resolution of the virtual machine seems to speed up every element of the virtual machine itself, from opening files, to improving button and window layouts, to interaction as simple as pointing and clicking the mouse. Even Coherence Mode works better with a scaled resolution. Every single interaction with my Parallels virtual machine has improved since I decreased the VM’s resolution.Changing…

I came across this excellent quote around the midway point of tax season. It so perfectly encapsulated the challenges I felt I was facing at the time. In my experience, those who are armchair quarterbacks/coaches/accountants become obsessed with what the rules say rather than attempting to understand what the rules mean to say and why the rules exist. There is a fundamental difference here, and the onus is on us to better understand rather than complain about the person who wrote the rule.The…

You’ve likely seen Bauhaus Clock for Mac at some point in the last few years, be it through a blog, YouTube video, or a set of screenshots somewhere. Good news this week — that same stunning design is now available for iPhone and iPad. And honestly, it may be even nicer than the Mac version.Bauhaus Clock for iPhone and iPad is a design-first, utility-second sort of app. It’s simple, doing nothing more than tell the time in one or two locations. But how it tells the time — with its gasp-worthy…

Good Sunday afternoon, my friends. The weather is shaping up to make one of the longest winters I can ever remember here in Southern Manitoba. We’ve had, bar none, the coldest April of the last 10 years, and by the time all is said and done, I’d like to see where this ranks among the all-time most frigid Aprils on record. On the flip side, it’s nice to have poor weather outside when you’re glued to your desk for 14 hours each day.On replacing our now-dead first-generation HomePodDespite the…

It’s Masters Sunday! And also Sid-vs.-Ovi-For-the-100th-Time Sunday. And also Baseball-Sunday (that’s every Sunday, but I won’t lie, I’m here for it every week). Overall, it’s just a great Sunday on the sports calendar.It also happened to be a

I’ve been allergic to low-profile keyboards in the past, for whatever reason. There aren’t as many of them on the market, and they all seem to have a compromise I’m not willing to deal with. The Nuphy Node 100, for the most part, is

He is risen! Happy Easter Sunday, friends. This is the best day on the calendar, bar none.Diving into the resurrection story yields some stunning wisdom, and it’s the story that gives something new each year. Our pastor spoke at length today about “tetelestai”, the Greek

Happy Sunday, my friends. This one is coming to you a little late, but perhaps I can squeeze it in before the clock strikes 12.I’ve learned a few things while being transparent about The Sunday Edition over the last few weeks:This little “newsletter” or

Happy Sunday, dear friends. Southern Manitoba received a string of beautifully sunny March days this week and half the snow piles have vanished. It’s so easy to forget how many that sun feels on your face after a six-month hiatus. Spring and summer are around the corner and