The Mee-Plus Mini As A Wallet

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If you’re the kind of lunatic who carries a notebook everywhere scrawling to-do lists, half-formed revelations, bar napkin poetry, conspiracy diagrams, etc… The Mee-Plus SlimPad Mini might just be your Holy Grail. This isn’t some limp, mass-market card sleeve for accountants and conference attendees. It’s a hybrid beast that is part wallet, part binder and engineered with just enough beautiful madness to actually make sense.

The layout? Brilliantly deranged. Crack open those Krause rings and you’re in control of your own modular universe. Need to carry a fat stack of plastic? Load it up with as many card holders as you need. Folded bills, receipts from questionable truck stops, weird sketches you swear were important at the time? No problem. Want fewer cards and more room for ink-fueled rambling? Stuff it full of pages until it bulges. And yeah—Mee-Plus makes pen holders too, so you’re never caught without your weapon of choice.

As a travel wallet, this thing is damn near perfect. Passport fits (with a little noble overhang), boarding passes tuck in clean once folded, and every chaotic scrap of your globe-trotting paper trail has a place. It’s like carrying a well-organized explosion of your personality.

Materials? Top shelf. The leather is rich, thick, and smells like it belongs in the glovebox of an old Jaguar. The Krause rings – industrial-grade German engineering – click open with a kind of confidence that says, “We’ve survived worse.”

The downside? Weight. If you’re an ultra-slim wallet purist, you’ll notice it. Not in size—this thing’s shockingly compact—but in density. It’s there. You feel it. Like a flask, or a loaded snub-nose. But if you’re already the kind of person who carries a notebook on the daily, this isn’t a con, it’s a calling. You are the target. This was made for you.

Bottom line: The Mee-Plus SlimPad Mini isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for thinkers, travelers, sketchers, and the quietly obsessive. Built for the long haul. Priced for the unapologetic. And just eccentric enough to be exactly right.

I’ve carried mine for a month now. Haven’t used the notepad section all that much (I’ve got other Mee-Plus binders for that), but I’m blown away by how damn functional and adaptable this little bastard is.

Highly recommended.

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Air Pods Pro 2 – CHEAP!

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AirPods Pro 3 are looming on the horizon—sure, they’ll probably come loaded with new tricks and marginally better sound. Great. Wonderful. But let’s be honest for a second: do you really care?

Especially when you can snag the V2 for $150 and call it a day? That’s exactly what I did. Pulled the trigger on the V2 and never looked back. Sometimes the smart move isn’t the newest option—it’s the one that doesn’t mug your wallet while still getting the job done like a champ.

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Gerber Armbar Trade

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The problem with most multi-tools is simple: they get greedy. Too many damn tools crammed into one awkward chunk of steel, half of which you’ll never use—just dead weight rattling in your pocket while the few essentials get buried in the mess.

But the Gerber Armbar? This thing’s on the right track. Just the basics: blade, saw, driver, opener, and pry bar. No fluff. No gimmicks. Just the core tools you actually need to survive the daily grind without feeling like you’re carrying a cinder block in your jeans.

Exchange the blade for a box cutter and I’d carry it…

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Rimowa

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Rimowa—the high priest of absurdly expensive luggage—is branching out. No longer content with rolling aluminum status symbols through airports, they’re now dabbling in new territory.

First up: a stool that echoes their iconic suitcase design, and a handful of sleek tool trays that look like they were pulled from a Bond villain’s garage. I have no idea who the hell they’re targeting with this stuff (sure as hell not me), but the design? It’s absolutely stunning. Cold, clean, industrial decadence.

Details here.

Schreiberling

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I love Wes Anderson. I love Montblanc. So this collaboration? A match made in obsessive, pastel-colored heaven. The product? Impeccable. The packaging? Pure art direction porn. Every detail dialed to eleven.

And of course, all this manic perfection will come at a price so astronomically irrational it borders on satire. But damn if it isn’t beautiful.

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Ricoh GR IV

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Finally. Ricoh has unleashed the GR IV—a long-awaited evolution in a bloodline of pocket cameras that’s been killing it since the goddamn film days.

If you’ve never tangled with the GR series, know this: it’s the street shooter’s secret weapon. Compact, fast, and absurdly sharp. Now, with the IV, things get even meaner—onboard memory, snappier autofocus, improved Wi-Fi, and a brand-new lens to tie it all together.

This isn’t just an update—it’s a refined instrument of photographic mayhem.

Details here.

Air75 V3

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NuPhy makes keyboards… and they are probably most known for their compact iPad solutions. Today, they announced the Air75 – another iPad centric 75% keyboard that a lot of people are apparently really excited about.

Details here.

Fast Economic Storage

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My photo archive has ballooned into something obscene—thousands of shots, terabytes of chaos—so I had to expand the digital warehouse. And because I edit directly off these drives in Lightroom, they can’t be lazy. I need speed. Responsiveness. No stuttering, no spinning beach balls of death.

Thunderbolt 5 just landed, but my Mac doesn’t give a damn—and neither does my wallet. So Thunderbolt 4 it is. For the enclosure, I went with the OWC Express 1M2. Fanless, whisper-quiet, and blessedly cool. I suspect the chunkier form factor and all those heat-dissipating fins are doing God’s work. $90 well spent.

As for the drive, sure, everyone drools over the Samsung 990 Pro—but I’m not made of gold and bourbon. I pocketed the extra $50 and grabbed the 990 Evo Plus instead. 4TB for $250.

The result? I’m clocking over 3000MB/s for under $400. That’s a hell of a deal, boys. Run it till it melts.