How To – Joe's Bucket List

‘Nixoid Next’ Nixie Tube Watch User Guide

Joe — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:06:23 +0000

There’s something super cool about wearing a Nixoid watch—the glowing nixie tubes feel like a portal to the past, strapped to your wrist. But if you’ve ever tried to set one, you might feel like you’ve been handed a relic with instructions written in hieroglyphics. Simply put: their manual could use a little bit of work. After spending an embarrassing amount of time tinkering, experimenting…

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How to Replace a Longines VHP Battery

Joe — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:32:45 +0000

I’ve written before about how the Longines VHP is one of my go-to travel gear items. Why do I love my Longines VHP (VHP = Very High Precision) watches when I travel? They are super nice but not too flashy, they are fancy without being too fancy and making you a target of a pickpocket, they are super easy to change time zones on (without having to hack the watch!), and they boast of the the…

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Joe’s Hotkey Manifesto

Joe — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000

Taking a break from this blog’s regularly scheduled programming: let’s talk about productivity. If you’re like me–and I’ll bet many of you are–using a computer is an essential part of your everyday life. Therefore, how productive you are largely depends on how well you can use a computer. There’s one extremely important productivity tool that’s probably rather close to you right now.

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Sharing & Organizing Photos

Joe — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:19:51 +0000

As you may be able to tell from this blog, I take a lot of photos. After all, travel and photography are two of my favorite things! Traveling & taking pictures is an easy thing to do. But–how do you do it well? When you get home, then what? How the heck do you find anything? How do you organize and share all of those great shots? Before even leaving the house, know what you want to do…

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