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WE ARE…SO BORED!

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Currently stuck in a hotel in Marshall, TX.  There is nothing, and I mean nothing, to do in Marshall, TX.  And I don’t want to drive back to Longview.  On the plus side, my room is quite nice.

My Road Trip with Dash (continued)

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After acquiring my Dash Express GPS (read about it here), my first real test with it was my road trip to Houston. You know, for business (not “business”). It’s my first and only GPS system, so I unfortunately don’t have a TomTom or a Garmin to compare it with, but my understanding is that they all have their own little quirks. Dash got me to the Houston area just fine, although it did have a strange habit of recalculating the route every 80 miles or so, as though I’d exited the highway, even when I hadn’t.

When I arrived in the greater-Houston area around rush hour, the best feature of the More >

My Road Trip with Dash

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I’ve had my Dash Express GPS for a few weeks now, but I haven’t had the chance to really put it through its paces until last week, went I went down to Houston on business (not “business”). The Dash is unique in that it’s a GPS device with a built in GPRS internet connection that’s always on. This makes the Dash unique in four ways:

  1. Live traffic: This is the primary reason I chose the Dash over other GPS systems. The Dash displays traffic for all roads (not just highways) from a third-party traffic provider, historical data, and – this is the cool part – other Dash users. See, the Dash More >
 

Tekken 6 HD Arcade Machine spotted in Houston

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3 years ago
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While I was down in Houston this week on business (yes, actual business, not “business”), I ducked into the Tilt arcade in the Houston Galleria for a quick couple of games on my way out of town.  I was pleasantly surprised to find a handful of clean, well-maintained, fun games.  I was even more surprised to stumble upon a very new looking Tekken 6 machine.

Honestly, I’ve never really been into Tekken — I’m more of a Soul Calibur and Street Fighter guy.  But the Internet tells me it’s running on an arcade board based on the PS3, and it’s not ever going to be More >

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