The bouncey zone

[...] ;t perfect on every subject, but I think they do a wonderful job with their coverage of the Grocery Shrink Ray – a catchy name for hidden grocery price increases. I caught this example of the [...]

[...] My first iPhone project was approved for the iTunes App Store! It does one thing: Given a price in dollars in one year, it says how many dollars would be [...]

[...] Mach 3 cartridges too. By the way, a hot shower also improves Mach 3 performance. The most important lessons so far: First, take your time, don’t get in a hurry, and don’t press too hard. [...]

[...] repairs. Not an experience I want to repeat very often, but we’ve learned a lot. (Most important lessons for home owners: If any repairs or upgrades need to be done, get started now! Don’t [...]

[...] and the next were taken with my new iPhone 4.) Why? I’ve been thinking that a simple disposable razor would be a nice in an emergency evacuation kit. (If you don’t have one, you should. [...]

[...] the shower several times (spraying with alcohol afterward) before it got too rough. My shaving technique has definitely improved over the past year. One time I tried it a different way: [...]

[...] yearly average. This helps if one of the prices is from a high-inflation year. Most other inflation calculators don’t do this. I don’t expect people to pay a buck up front. It’s free [...]

[...] would be needed to buy the same thing in a different year. Yes indeed, it’s an inflation calculator. I know there are others in the App Store, but mine has a few advantages: It uses actual [...]

[...] many years ago. When the author points out that an item costs so-much, you can run my Price Inflation app and find out whether that’s supposed to be outrageous or a bargain. It’s also [...]

[...] It’s been a year or so since I posted any news about my shaving experiments. I haven’t given up on it, and I haven’t settled into a final long-term pattern [...]