Author Archives: Chuck La Tournous

Sneak Peak of my ‘The Geek Outdoors’ session at Macworld

It’s a rare opportunity when my love of technology and my love of the great outdoors align, so I was thrilled when I was asked to deliver a seminar on “High Tech Camping” at next week’s Macworld | iWorld event in San Francisco. If you’re coming to the event, I certainly hope you’ll consider attending [...]

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The most patriotic thing you can do

From a post by Mark Cuban: I agree with everything in this post. What’s interesting is how both the right and left are taking it as a referendum on their point of view. In fact, it’s neither. It does not say that if you get rich, you have an obligation to pay more than your [...]

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Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Viva Elvis’ is a hunka hunka burnin’ fun

The biggest problem with doing a show based on Elvis Presley’s life is that he became larger than life (no, that’s not a “Fat Elvis” joke); a legend that nothing could ever live up to, then sadly — a parody, a stereotype. How, then, to get around that problem to produce something that is not [...]

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AT&T’s new data plan on The Mac Jury

I’m on the panel of the latest MacJury podcast, where we discussed AT&T’s new cellular data plans, which effectively end “unlimited” data and introduce tethering for iPhones. I was surprised by just how much there was to say about what on face value seemed a pretty simple story. The conversation was helped by having an [...]

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