Thursday, September 27, 2012

Review: Sony Ericsson MW600 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

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My beloved Samsung SBH 500 Bluetooh Headphones died a year or so ago, and it's been a chore finding a suitable replacement. In the inte...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

First Impressions: Google/Asus Nexus 7

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I'm writing this review late, since there are plenty of Nexus 7 reviews out there. However, I did get the Nexus 7 as a birthday presen...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Trip Report: Downieville

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This year I resurrected one of my ancient traditions: the birthday trip! In recent years, that practice fell into disuse because when you w...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Wealthfront's Startup Equity Calculator

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Wealthfront has a great startup equity calculator post on their blog that's worth reading for every engineer who intends to work at a ...

First Impressions: Resmed S9 Autoset with iH5 Humidifier

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I've been a CPAP patient for years. For many years, my CPAP machines have been made by Respironics because that was what the doctor or...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Review: A Distant Soil, Books 1-4

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I first reviewed A Distant Soil in 2005 here on this blog. I recently noticed that the library had books 1-4, and hoping that the story ha...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Now Available on Amazon: Independent Cycle Touring

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That was the shortest "out of print" period in history. Thanks to the magic of automation, Amazon now has copies of Independent C...

Now that's customer service! (AirBnB)

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Yesterday, I wrote about my less than satisfactory experience with AirBnB . Today, AirBnB's customer service rep contacted me and said t...
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Independent Cycle Touring now sold out!

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Independent Cycle Touring just sold out of its first printing. To date, this has been the book that's taken the longest to sell out, wh...

Market Efficiency

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Most companies understand not to cheap out on machines for engineers. The cost of a top end development machine is about $5,000, and when yo...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Review: AirBnB

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We used AirBnB twice this time on our recent trip in Europe . The first stay was a 4 day stay at the beginning of our visit to France, and ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Trip Report: Portland

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Portland 2012 My brothers and I decided to take our parents to Portland for my mom's 70th birthday. This was the first family trip f...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Review: Whiteout Volume 2 (Melt)

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Whiteout: Melt returns to the world introduced in Whiteout . Carrie Stenko, the protagonist in the first book, returns, this time to invest...
Sunday, September 09, 2012

Review: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

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Where Good Ideas Come From is a book about the history of innovation. As a book, however, it's not terribly innovative, with only one o...

The Bible Repairman and Other Stories

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When I heard from Larry that Tim Powers had a new short story collection out ( The Bible Repairman and Other Stories ), I picked it up on t...
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Saturday, September 08, 2012

Review: Premium Rush

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We needed an excuse to visit the Living Room Theater in Portland, and Premium Rush was available at a reasonable time, so we paid a visit....
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Review: Whiteout Volume 1

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Whiteout: Volume 1 is a mystery story about a serial killer in Antarctica. I wish I could say that it worked for me, but I think this is on...
Friday, September 07, 2012

Review: Cinderella from Fabletown with Love

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Cinderella was one of the first spinoffs from Fables . It's a spy/thriller-type romp about Fabletown's own superspy, who comes comp...
Thursday, September 06, 2012

Review: Chinglish

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Top level summary: Go see it now. You only have until October 21st! Chinglish is David Henry Hwang's play about misunderstandings due...

KidCo Peapod - product review and meta-review [guest post]

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The Review When Hannah was little, we spent a little time searching around for some kind of apparatus for her to sleep in while traveling...