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I'm a husband, father, author, cyclist, sailor, travel addict, and Silicon Valley software engineer. I've written 4 books and actively review books on this blog. Comments on this blog are aggressively moderated against link-spam and rude or meaningless comments.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Garmisch Partenkirchen to Bad Tolz

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Garmisch to Bad Tolz GPS Log here. This morning, I got up extra early and headed out to the train station. Hoping to catch the 8:34 train, I...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Review: Altered Carbon

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One of the unforeseen consequences of having a Kindle as my reading instrument is that I end up finding new authors that I some how missed ...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

More YouTube Loving

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Found some more old songs courtesy of Youtube. First up is Subaru...its a song that actually sounds a lot older than it is. Its really only...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Council Wars

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So along with the Kindle comes the ability to read all the ebooks at the Bean Free Library (linked in the title). Just simply download the ...
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Amazon Kindle back in stock

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I guess Amazon's fixed their production problems, because they've taken care of a whole month worth of backlog, and now can ship new...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Review: The Salmon of Doubt

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Somehow, I missed The Salmon of Doubt ( Kindle Edtion ) when it first came out a few years after Douglas Adam's death, but while browsin...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Day riding in the Bavarian Foothills

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Holzkirche n - Wolfrathau sen Loop The weather forecast was for beautiful, 60 degree weather today, so I went into the office yesterday and...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Review: Crystal Rain

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There was a time known as The Golden Age of Science Fiction , when men were real men, women were real women, and furry creatures from Alpha ...

Review: Bringing Down The House

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Bringing Down The House ( Kindle Edition ) is the story of 6 MIT students (or in some cases, MIT drop-outs) who used their knowledge of stat...

Munich

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I landed in Munich in the middle of a lightning storm, 2 hours late due to Lufthansa having mechanicals earlier in the day. Fortunately, all...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Review: Spin Control

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The nice thing about discovering Chris Moriarty so late was that I got to read Spin Control ( Kindle edition ) immediately after Spin Stat...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

First Ride in Munich

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Munich For a change, Lufthansa did not damage or lose my bike (given that it was a direct flight, losing the bike would have taken some effo...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Review: Spin State

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As a rule, hard science fiction novels have extremely poor character development and uninteresting characters with lots of exposition, whil...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

Sydney Pictures and Honking Cool Lizard!

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First, Sydney Pictures Horned Lizard
Saturday, April 05, 2008

Berkeley Hills Ride

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  Today was a beautiful day for a reprise of the Berkeley Hills ride. Kekoa, Roberto, and Ryan PC Gibson joined me at the starting point whe...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Australia - Part 10 - Diving the GBR

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I woke up at 5:30am, took a quick shower, packed my stuff, and then set off to wait outside my hostel's front door. Already there were ...

Lea is Famous!

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My friend Lea Kissner got interviewed for a Women in Engineering event. Like many of my other friends, she's a very direct person, and I...
Thursday, April 03, 2008

The Most Expensive GPS Mount...

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Lately, Pardo and I have been making jokes that we've been running the most expensive bike shop in the world out of his garage. Obvious...
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Kata Tjuta Pictures

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Eventually I will split out the pictures for all of the walks, but for now this will have to do. These are pictures for the Kata Tjuta walk...

Australia - Part 9 - Kayaking, Daintrees, and a Nice Dinner.

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Today was an early get-up at 7am. My Kayak trip was booked at 7:40am. I cleared out the bedsheets, packed my stuff, and went and stood to ...
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