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I comfortably stopped body shaving, thanks to hair oil.
/ June 17, 2019By Jeffrey the Barak. Last week I jumped into bed and put bloodstains on the clean white sheets. I had…
Stepping off the footboard
/ April 10, 2019By Jeffrey the Barak. Yesterday I sold my Kickbike CruiseMax. I got a good price for it, and today I…
Electric Scooters in 2019
/ April 1, 2019By Jeffrey the Barak It is 2019 and that means I have been writing articles about electric scooters in the-vu…
Different ways to clean Jalousie (louvered) windows.
/ January 29, 2019By Jeffrey the Barak. Louvered windows, or jalousies as they are called in Hawaii, are great for allowing the trade…
Taming the armpits of the world
/ January 26, 2019By Jeffrey the Barak. Body odor or odour, used to be omnipresent. There was no deodorant and insufficient bathing. A…
Have I already bought my last ever combustion engined car?
/ November 13, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. I have been writing about electric cars and electric scooters in the-vu for eighteen years. Most…
The Female artist who conquered the world
/ September 24, 2018By Judy Nelson. Have you ever thought about the fact that female artists almost never reach the level of fame…
A Passion for Time
/ July 4, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. Time is a cruel bedfellow. It never goes backwards and we can only lose it. As…
The Pali Notches formed naturally.
/ July 1, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. Look Ma’uka from Kailua and you will see upon the shoulder of Konahuinui, two very square…
Switching from mechanical analog, to quartz digital watches
/ June 23, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. I have been a quite an avid watch collector and flipper for some time, buying and…
2017 Honda CR-V, one year impressions
/ May 12, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. Usually when you read a car review it talks about specifications, quality, practicality and reliability. It…
Ten Album Covers
/ April 22, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. In recent weeks, people have been posting ten album cover images on their Facebook feeds,…
The Various Types Of Non-Believers
/ April 2, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. The Anti-Theist Anti-Theists don’t just look away from religion and beliefs, they stand up and speak…
Unimportant Subject Matter?
/ April 2, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. All writing is important, as are all subjects. One magazine or blog cannot solve the problems…
Stop Damping Your Drums
/ March 30, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. Damping, otherwise known as muting or muffling. When finally realizing that each part of the drum…
The great 2018 decluttering
/ February 19, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. Painful as it may be to take a writer’s hard work and unpublish it, after 18…
Ojo Commuter Scooter Review
/ January 30, 2018By Jeffrey the Barak. If Dr. Seuss were to illustrate a motor scooter, it might get skinnier and taller, and…
The Wheat-Free Vegan
/ July 19, 2017By Jeffrey the Barak. Where’s the steak? I am currently able to announce that I am a “wheat-free vegan”. Does…
Lorna Brown, Skate of the Art
/ December 10, 2016By Jeffrey the Barak. An artist is an artist, so it is not unusual to find someone who is known…
Falling out of love with electronic drums
/ August 19, 2016By Jeffrey the Barak. They were so good for while. What could be better? You make a tiny little sound…
Mad about M.A.D.
/ August 2, 2016By Jeffrey the Barak. M.A.D. mandible advancement device. I have to admit that I was, and possibly still am,…
The Nimble Urban Cargo Scooter
/ April 26, 2016By Jeffrey the Barak. I wrote briefly about the Nimble Cargo Scooter after trying one out at the Dwell on…
The Bialetti Moka Pot and Cafe Bustelo
/ March 4, 2016By Jeffrey the Barak. The Bialetti Moka Pot and Cafe Bustelo, an Italian and Cuban-American collaboration resulting in beautiful coffee. There…
Roland Octapad SPD-30 as a mini-kit. A real drummer’s review
/ February 5, 2016By Jeffrey the Barak. Wait a minute, it’s 2016. Why would someone write a review of an SPD-30 now, when…
NAMM 2016 – A quest for a compact multipad drum kit
/ January 25, 2016By Jeffrey the Barak. Having the opportunity this year to attend NAMM, that is the National Association of Music Merchants…
Sweetened Condensed Milk, Goodbye Old Friend
/ December 11, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. For the last thirty years or so, I have been slightly unwell. A constant pressure, bloating,…
Flykly Smart Ped Folding Kick-Assist Scooter
/ November 28, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. Scooters. I am obsessed with them. I have so far owned at least sixteen human-powered scooters…
The Four Acceptable Man Bags
/ October 27, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. In today’s world, men carry as much stuff around as women. This is primarily due to…
Kickbike Cruise Max 20 Reviewed. Comfy all-day cruiser.
/ October 4, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. The Kickbike Cruise Max 20 is a special Kickbike model designed for easy all day cruising…
Why does my Cappuccino keep changing?
/ September 30, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. The Cappuccino, the favorite morning pick me up for Italians that evolved into any any time…
America, it is time to get off your sore butt and ride a Kickbike
/ September 29, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. Some people love bicycles, but many cyclists have a love-hate relationship with them. The phrase Pain…
Personal Transportation Devices for the 21st Century
/ September 28, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. A personal transportation device can be anything that gets a person around town, without a car.…
The Four Pillars Method for Speaking More Clearly
/ August 24, 2015By Sigmund Shonholtz. FOUR PILLARS METHOD© OF ACCENT MANAGEMENT. Learning another language as an adult is not easy. One of…
The new all-terrain commuter scooter
/ August 6, 2015By Felix Dorling. “Scooters are for kids aren’t they?” I’ve received mixed responses since bringing my new scooter into the…
Skujou, Electric Scooter startup in Hamburg
/ August 1, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. Recently in the-vu we reviewed the Zumaround Zum electric scooter and consequently we recently received a…
Zumaround Zum Electric Scooter Review
/ April 13, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. Fifteen years ago in this same magazine, in July 2000 to be exact, I wrote an…
The Hardwood Flooring Fake Warranty
/ April 8, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. When you buy a hardwood flooring, or engineered hardwood flooring system for your home, the flooring…
Finding My Roots Through DNA
/ April 3, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. How my knowledge of my ancestry suddenly jumped from the 19th Century to tens of thousands…
Genes, Gender, Generation and Geography
/ January 14, 2015By Sigmund Shonholtz. GENES, GENDER, GENERATION, AND GEOGRAPHY… A coincidentalist’s perspective on Earthlinging. Every now and again, I have…
Freestyle Pro-Scooters without the tricks?
/ January 13, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. Just lately I have been finding that riding a scooter for a few miles is too…
Half a century of scooting
/ January 8, 2015By Jeffrey the Barak. I may have a few decades of life left, but with my 58th birthday coming this…
From a one foot hop to E-Bikes
/ December 20, 2014By Jeffrey the Barak. How much do we want to exercise, and how much help do we want from machines…
Irony is Destiny
/ December 12, 2014By Sigmund Shonholtz. or How to be a Self-Entertaining Entity, S.E.E. Be the cause in your coincidence. There are billions…
The Selfie, a decade before the Selfie
/ October 16, 2014By Jeffrey the Barak. The world is obsessed with “The Selfie”. So many people have smartphones, and a desire to…