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All the GORUCK’s current MACV-1 stock is on sale right now from $99-119 a pair. These are the only boots I wear for rucking, or outdoors/hiking stuff. I love them, the Light Brown + Coyote colorway is fantastic. I tend to keep two pairs of these on hand. Go get a pair.
All the GORUCK’s current MACV-1 stock is on sale right now from $99-119 a pair. These are the only boots I wear for rucking, or outdoors/hiking stuff. I love them, the Light Brown + Coyote colorway is fantastic.
I tend to keep two pairs of these on hand. Go get a pair.
This is a really nice, and easy to own briefcase from Filson.
A while back, Filson launched the Dryden line of bags. These bags are primarily nylon, with touches of leather, brass, and other ‘standard’ Filson materials. They are less expensive then their twill and tin cloth counterparts, but still far from being inexpensive themselves. I’ve taken a look at the Dryden Backpack already, today I take a look at the much more compelling, Dryden Briefcase.
A very good travel planning app for individuals, and groups of people.
It’s getting to that time of year where people are going places, and if airline ticket prices are any indicator — many of you are traveling. Wanderlog came into my life this year, and I’ve found it to be a pretty great tool for travel — perhaps the only travel type app that has ever proven useful for me.
You should download and install it, but for those of you who want more convincing and less trust, I’ll expand on why…
I convinced myself I need another watch, but not to buy it. And I wonder what building security is going to think of my new office ‘bag’.
I thought this bag would be good, but I had no idea it would be this good.
Note: this item was provided free of charge for review.
Mystery Ranch’s Coulee lineup has always been one that I waffled on — the past version sizing was always a little larger than I wanted for a day hike at 25L being the smallest. For 2023, Mystery Ranch revamped the lineup and released the Coulee 20. A 20L variant with a robust (but removable) hip belt and everything you could want from a day hiking pack.
It’s a winner for me…
I know quite a few of you have been asking me about if this was coming, well here it is. I wasn’t a fan of the GR2 in X-Pac (or really X-Pac in general anymore), so this isn’t something I am looking to grab. But if my Discord is any indication, I might be in…
I know quite a few of you have been asking me about if this was coming, well here it is. I wasn’t a fan of the GR2 in X-Pac (or really X-Pac in general anymore), so this isn’t something I am looking to grab. But if my Discord is any indication, I might be in the minority of opinion about this setup.
But, wow, that price.
Filson is having a 30% off sale on select items. Three of my all time favorite bags are included: Journeyman, $276.50 24hr Briefcase, $276.50 48hr Duffle, $346.50 (review) Get it while you can.
Filson is having a 30% off sale on select items. Three of my all time favorite bags are included:
Get it while you can.
Upgrade your zippers.
One of the most common modifications I do to bags is messing with the zipper pulls. I don’t like metal zipper pulls with something attached to the very end of them, as they jingle when you move about and annoy the crap out of me. The fix for this is pretty easy, and can be non-destructive if you prefer, so I thought I would share some different options I use/have used over the years.
Especially, since I’ve been seeing some brands start to sell zipper pull kits, for stupid prices. Most of this stuff can be done very low-budget.
Did you know that there’s a cooler I am lusting over, and also I tested a bunch of LED light bulbs for us.
Allow me to explain why these two watches brands are moving the needle in impressive ways, without boring you with talk about movements and such.
As I watched all the reactions from the 2023 Watches and Wonders trade show, I started thinking about what all these luxury watch brands represent. Why do I gravitate towards some, and not others — the big questions in life.
And what I realized is that Tudor and Grand Seiko are at the top of their game, and the others just don’t get it.
My thoughts on the GR lineup of bags, and the 210D downsides.
GORUCK bags have gone through a lot of changes over the years. There’s an entire community of people who hold the information that I am not sure GORUCK holds about when changes were made, and what they were. There’s an equal amount of people who hold different beliefs as to when the perfect GORUCK bag combination was met and shipped.
Are there really people who think walking next to roads with noise cancelling headphones on is a safe and smart thing to do? Is that my old man showing?
The bare minimum amount of bags you need to own is three, here’s the best three for three different budgets.
This is the second part of my ‘Three XYZ Collection: Budget to Luxury’ series of posts (read part one, here). The idea is simple: building a three items collection in a given category which should cover almost anyone, and doing it in three price brackets.
Let’s get started with bags.
Some of the things I learned the hard-long-slow-stupid way and boots.
Oh, this is quite good, but I am not sure if it is a tote or something else.
I don’t particularly like tote bags, I view them as a necessary evil I need to deal with from time to time. Whether that is for hauling groceries, or towels to a pool party, or as defacto organizers for oddly shaped items in the back of my car on road trips — I deal with totes, I don’t embrace them. That makes me something of an anomaly amongst my group of bag toting nerds — but it is what it is.
And then I received a Mystery Ranch Bindle 20 in trade, and this is a tote I can get behind.
Y’all are missing out if you are not taking full advantage of your membership, and other things.
A gem to use, with a wicked steel, and a poor deployment setup.
For all the knives I have tested, and all the Spydercos I have owned over the years — I’ve never owned the Dragonfly 2. It’s a hugely popular model, but one I had oddly never owned. When my Discord let me know about a sprint run using Super Blue steel, I figured why not. After all, I’ve disliked every Spyderco I’ve bought over the last two years, so what’s one more?
This I have nothing to hide mindset is cute, but is creating real problems for real people.
The Business Insider (gross) headline: ‘Police are prosecuting abortion seekers using their digital data — and Facebook and Google help them do it’.
If you are shocked by this, then you’ve not been paying attention. Facebook and Google basically have to hand this data over, so I wouldn’t call it “helping”, so much as “complying”. Still, it’s clear this data does help these inhumane laws be enforced.
The best way around it for companies: don’t keep the fucking data. You cannot be compelled to supply data which does not exist (so far).
The real outrage here, for me, is not that these companies are handing over the data — again they have to — but rather that people using anything made by these companies are essentially now agreeing: being served better ads, is worth the tradeoff of women and, well honestly anyone not white and male, paying the price with their liberties and freedoms. That might sound a bit hyperbolic, but I am not sure that it is anymore:
However, as in the case of Burgess and her daughter, law enforcement requests may not be specifically looking for abortion-related data in their investigations, but may prosecute abortion-related crimes based on what they find.
Have hunch, get data, sort through it to find something they did wrong.
An investigation by ProPublica found online pharmacies that sell abortion medication such as mifepristone and misoprostol are sharing sensitive data, including users’ web addresses, relative location, and search data, with Google and other third-party sites — which allows the data to be recoverable through law-enforcement requests.
When the Snowden stuff came out — what seems like a life time ago — the common refrain was “so what, I have nothing to hide”. To anyone who could extrapolate the potential pitfalls of these systems, that was an obviously stupid statement. And it’s happening again, with people believing that they can trust these systems — but you cannot. You cannot trust these companies with your data, with your location, with your private conversations. They’ve shown no ability to actually protect and secure your data. They’ve shown very little care with it as well.
When Snowden released his information Roe v. Wade protected a woman’s right to healthcare. The tools were weaponized *against* ‘bad guys’. Today there’s no such healthcare protections for a wide swath of people in this country, but there’s active malice in enforcing draconian laws, and there’s knowledge by those seeking to punish/enforce of where the evidence lives and how to get it. It’s never been more dangerous for anyone who is not white and male to use Meta/Google and other services. And its never been more obvious that this is no longer a philosophical debate about whether this will be used against people for harm or not.
Stay private. Ditch that shit.
Or, I guess, agree that “it’s really easy to stay up to date with XYZ” is worth the attack on non-Christian-white-men-rights. It’s not like Google/Meta need to shut down, they simply need to change their ways to protect people.
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