Monday, December 31, 2012

Review: Ted the Movie

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Two guys are lifelong friends and roommates, but then one of them gets a girlfriend and the other is forced to move out. This sounds like a ...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

First Impressons: Scion xB

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My wife's BMW was starting to need costly repairs (and it certainly wasn't cheap to begin with). The choices were to keep it and ke...
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First Impressions: Republic Wireless Defy XT (Dual Band)

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My 2 year old Nexus One had started getting a flakey power button, so I was going to have to buy a new phone. While I was very happy at my ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Rest in Peace Frank Spychalski

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My last photo with Frank in it, taken in July 2011 (Left to right: Phil Sung, Alan Wissenberg, Dan Vogelheim, Frank Spychalski, Me) ...
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Long Term Review: Continental Gatorskin Tires

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For the longest time, I ran only Avocet Fasgrip tires. They're grippy, and they were cheap, especially after a dealer online blew them ...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Frank Spychalski MIA in New Zealand

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Current Googler Frank Spychalski left for New Zealand in November and was supposed to show up at a friend's place in the last 2 weeks. ...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Head to Head: Sonicare versus Oral-B electric toothbrushes

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I've been a Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush user for years. While I've been largely satisfied with the brushes, they had sever...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Bloomreach Talk

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I was invited by Bloomreach to give a variation of my talk on Startup Engineering Management . The talk was held in confidence, but afte...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Review: The Hydrogen Sonata

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Any Iain Banks book automatically gets put on hold at the library. Triply so when it's a Culture novel. The Hydrogen Sonata is the lat...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Review: Ergo Depot Adjustable Height Standing Desk

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Earlier this year, I read an article about how sitting is bad for your health , especially women's health. I told my wife about this and...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

Long Term Review: Schlage Keypad Locks

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It's been 3 years and a little bit since I installed the Schlage Keypad Locks in the house, and sure enough, the battery on the front d...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

2013 Book Reviews

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Books of the year have been selected ! Non-Fiction No Easy Day The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2012 How Children Succee...

Review: No Easy Day

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No Easy Day is Mark Owen's account of the mission that killed Osama bin ladin, and an autobiographical account of how he came to be ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

My Favorite 8 Trips

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I've traveled enough to have opinions on what trips are great. My criteria for the following list is simply this: Am I willing to repeat...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Product Review: Garmin GLO bluetooth GPS unit [guest post]

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For 2 years or so, I’ve been using a track-recording app on my Android phone to plot my courses on cycling and running excursions. I’m a cyc...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

9 Dives that I recommend

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My recent trip reminded me that I should list the best dives I've done. I'm not an avid diver, but I've been blessed with having...

Hawaii Big Island

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Hawaii Big Island XiaoQin, her parents, Bowen and I went to Hawaii from Halloween to Thanksgiving day this year. We'd arranged this thr...

Long Term Review: Keen Newport Sandals

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After the Great Sandal Hunt of 2012 , I did something very brave. I took my Keen Newport H2 to a 3 week trip in Hawaii as my only pair of ...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Nexus 7 App Recommendations

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Now that I've had the Nexus 7 for a while, I can provide some recommendations for applications that are suitable for daily use on the ta...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Books of the Year 2012

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This year, I read 66 books , on average more than a book a week, including several graphic novels, including 25 novels most of which were ac...