Monday, February 27, 2012

Review: The City & The City

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Unlike the other two China Mieville novels reviewed here, Perdido Street Station and The Scar , The City and The City is not set in the wo...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Review: Liars and Outliers

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My opinions about security are well known. Yet once in a while someone will point me to something by Bruce Schneier and I will read it an...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Review: Reamde

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Reamde is the first Neal Stephenson book I've read since Cryptonomicon . A lot of this is because he seems to have forsworn all use of ...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Review: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K320

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My 6 year old Kinesis keyboard started getting flakey: whenever I first started up my machine, it wouldn't be recognized 50% of the tim...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Review: Grand Pursuit - The Story of Economic Genius

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I'll admit it. I'm an economics junkie, and enjoy even reading books like Minsky's Stabilizing an Unstable Economy . So I was ex...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Ethical Investing

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When you talk about ethical investing, people naturally conflate it with socially responsible investing . The thing is, nowadays, the fina...
Monday, February 06, 2012

A post-IPO sale simulator

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A few years ago, I wrote a long blog entry on how to appropriately diversify away from company stock . While the article addressed an employ...
Friday, February 03, 2012

A Surprising Change in Google+ Engagement

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In December, I wrote a piece about how Google+ engagement was surprisingly low , considering how many people followed me on Google+ versus F...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Review: Buzz, The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine

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The two most common drugs in use in the world are alcohol and caffeine. Buzz is a book that tries to explain how both substances work, how ...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Trip Report: Hawaii

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I just got back from a family trip to Hawaii (see photos ). I've always thought of Hawaii as the kind of place to visit after I'm ...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Review: Lady Lady I Did It

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Lady Lady I Did It is one of Ed McBain's (Evan Hunter) 87th Precinct novels. I remember them fondly from my youth, so when Amazon recen...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Review: The Price of Civilization

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I will admit that I approached The Price of Civilization with a lot of skepticism. As an economist, Sachs was famous for being extremely op...

Review: Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

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It didn't take very long to realize Boomerang is a reprint of various Michael Lewis articles for Vanity Fair . This in itself is not un...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Review: The Kingdom of Gods

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Last year, I reviewed The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and praised it as some of the most innovative fiction written. Then I reviewed the sequ...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Review: Knocking on Heaven's Door

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I didn't read the reviews of the book carefully before checking it out of the library, so I had my expectations completely mismanaged wh...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Chariot CTS Cougar Followup: Palanquin Mode

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I mentioned in my earlier review of the Chariot Cougar that it had 5 modes: stroller, bike trailer, jogger, skier, and hiking mode. Well, t...
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Sunday, January 08, 2012

Ride your road bike on unpaved roads

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One of the sections in Independent Cycle Touring covers riding on unpaved surfaces with a road bike. Why would you do this when you can jus...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

Review: Children of the Sky

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Children of the Sky is the direct sequel to Vernor Vinge's Hugo Award winning A Fire Upon The Deep , which was easily the best novel th...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Review: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment

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I love books that apply science to daily affairs, and Attached promised to take scientific research and apply it to romantic relationships....
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Review: Chariot Cougar 1 Stroller/Bike Trailer/Jogger

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My brothers insisted on buying a bike trailer for Bowen . When I responded that they should get me the Chariot Cougar , one of them wrote in...
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