Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2025

Review: Empire of Pain

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 Empire of Pain is the history of the Sackler family. This is the family responsible for the opioid epidemic in the USA, killing lots of Am...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Review: Shokz Openswim Pro

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 I started doing more swimming again, and once again, swimming isn't like cycling. The scenery doesn't change (and in America, the s...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Review: Arrowsmith

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 After admiring Carlos Pacheco's work on Superman, I decided to look for more of his work, and came across Arrowsmith, which comes in tw...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Review: TheMagic5 Swimming Googles

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 I've been using Cressi tempered glass swimming goggles for years. They work, even though they're heavy, but they do leak on initia...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Review: AstroCity Metro Book Vol 6

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 I never got around to buying/reading the last few AstroCity collections, and it turned out that they're now all available on Hoopa as ...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Review: Superman - Camelot Falls

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 While browsing Hoopla I saw that Busiek wrote another Superman story called Camelot Falls , so I checked it out as well. The thesis behind ...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

Reiew: The Molecule of More

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 The Molecule of More is a book length exposition of Dopamine. There's plenty of exposition about Dopamine's role in well known hum...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Review: Batman - Creature of the Night

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 After reading Superman - Secret Identity, I discovered that Kurt Busiek wrote the Batman equivalent called Creature of the Night which sho...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Review: Superman - Secret Identity

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 Somehow I'd missed that Kurt Busiek wrote a Superman story called Secret identity . Well, of course I had to go and check it out from H...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Review: Good Omens Graphic Novel

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 I will confess that I've always bounced off Terry Prachett's work. Disc World, you name it, I can't read more than a few pages ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Review: Hileen replacement nosepads for Oakley cycling glasses

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 One of the most annoying things about cycling with glasses is when they keep sliding down your nose. I've tried stuff like nerdwax whi...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Review: Wolftooth Encase Hex Wrench Kit

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 If you have a minimalist toolbag on your bike, you probably at some point run out of space. One alternative is to stow your tools into your...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Review: Beguilement

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 Amazon showed me that Beguilement was for sale for $2. The library didn't have it in electronic format and I found myself thinking: ...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Long term review: Waxing Chains

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 I've been waxing chains on my family's fleet of bicycles for about 18 months. When I first started doing this, I considered it a ha...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Review: Gabaruk 11-50 11s cassette

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Gabaruk's 11-50 11s cassette can be gotten for $211. For a weight savings of approximately 300g, it handily beats the $1/gram of weight...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Review: Play Nice

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 Play Nice is Jason Schreier's corporate history of Blizzard Entertainment. Written in a breathless manner that befits its subject, the...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Review: Flow Control Filter for Aeropress

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 The aeropress is still my favorite coffee maker. Rather than use the "inverted" method, I always use the filter upright, but imme...
Monday, September 08, 2025

Review: 1Q84

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 I previously bounced off 1Q84 , but after reading about Harukami talking about it about his first attempt at a really long novel (over 1000...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Review: Ortlieb Saddlebag 4 liter

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 I'd been using the old style Ortlieb mini handlebar bag. While it's satisfactory for most of my purposes, it had several drawbacks,...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Review: Novelist as a Vocation

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 I enjoyed Norwegian Wood enough to check out what Haruki Murakami thought about his career as a novelist. Novelist as a Vocation is an ori...