Tag: Galaxy S25

Photo by Joe WilcoxDec 11, 20259:30 pm

Something Sweet Before the Sour Comes

Two weeks to Christmas, time comes to start spreading holiday cheer—decorations, too—and pledge to keep the spirit alive all through the upcoming year. My wife and I dispatched holiday cards today, for the first time in a couple of ages (yeah, too long a time). A final batch goes in the mail tomorrow—followed by, during the coming days, distribution to local friends and neighbors.

The candy canes come courtesy of San Diego Zoo, where we saw them on Nov. 10, 2025. Yeah, Christmas starts early there but means less this year because of the big bah, humbug coming on January 5. Parking will no longer be free for everyone at the zoo, nor in adjoining Balboa Park.

Photo by Joe WilcoxAug 21, 20254:24 pm

What’s He Looking At?

The third Weekend of any (normal) month is the book sale room at the San Diego Public Library in University Heights—9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Prices are generous: Books and DVDs are generally a buck. Paperbacks are twenty-five cents each or five for a dollar. What’s not to like about that? Greedy shoppers!

Recurrent pattern: The earliest people in the doors grab, grab, grab. Someone might ransack sci-fi paperbacks, for example, piling them in a box and setting it aside with sign Taken for later sorting. They then move onto the shelves searching for more treasures.

Photo by Joe WilcoxJan 30, 20258:17 pm

Samsung Galaxy S25 and S25 Ultra Arrive Way Early

The new Samsung smartphones ship, officially, on Feb. 7, 2025, so I was quite surprised to receive email that ours would arrive today. They did—the S25 for my wife and the Ultra for me.

The company makes yearly upgrades too easy, with launch trade-in and other offers. My S25 Ultra is the 1TB model, for which Samsung shaved $1,140 off the price, bringing the total to less than what I paid for the same capacity S24 a year ago. The same goes for the S25: Less than the S24, with $550 discounted. Annie has the model with 256GB storage, which is the maximum available.