Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Review: Pororo Edison Training Chopsticks

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It's difficult to train your kid to use silverware in a Chinese household. This isn't because Chinese babies somehow have a harder t...
Monday, September 01, 2014

Reflections on Cycling Skills

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My book, Independent Cycle Touring spends a significant portion on cycling skills. When people think of cycling, they mostly consider it a ...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Review: DuraAce 7700 Freehub

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I recently toured the alps with my DuraAce 7700 freehub. It finished the tour as quiet as it started, but it was an unusually dry tour, wit...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Review: The Wolf Among Us, Episodes 3-5

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The Wolf Among Us is Telltale Game's point-and-click puzzle adventure set in the world of Fables.  I previously reviewed the first two ...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Review: Anker X201 Replacement Battery

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Ever since I got Xiaoqin her Surface Pro , she's relinquished my (by now ancient) X201 back to me. Laptop batteries usually get killed ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century is Thomas Piketty's magnum opus about the future of capitalism and the implications thereof. It is ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Review: Anker 40W 5-Port Desktop USB charger

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We have 3 tablets, 2 phones, 2 kindles, an external battery pack, a camera and several more electronic items in the house, all chargeable vi...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Review: NewTrent 90C

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On the tour of the alps this year, I had 4 devices that regularly needed charging via USB: the Garmin Edge 800 , the Nokia 521 , the Sony R...

Review: i-Bert Safe-T Seat

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It's almost getting to the point where Bowen has to go to pre-school, which is about 4 miles away. I'd been riding him around locall...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Review: T-mobile postpaid international roaming plan

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As previously mentioned, the plan this year was to use my Nokia 521 phone in Europe in conjunction with the T-mobile post-paid all you can ...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Ultra Long Term Review: Garmin Edge 800

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It is the nature of electronics that they tend to be short-lived. Most people don't hang on to their phones more than 2 years, and in so...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Convergence

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Microsoft's Surface Pro is a bet that convergence will lead to a device that blends a laptop and a tablet. I'm both a fan of the Su...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Tour Review: Michelin Pro Race 3 Tire

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I brought the Michelin Pro Race 3 tire on tour with misgivings. The last few times I'd brought 25mm tires on tour, they'd resulted ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Long Term Review: Garmin GSC10

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I bought the Garmin GSC 10 several years ago in the hopes that it would improve accuracy of tracking for the Garmin GPS. On this year's...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Epilogue and Conclusion: Tour of the Alps 2014

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It was a chore getting the bike box and my suit case back to David's apartment, so I was glad that Arturo came along to help. Packing th...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

July 20th: Reuti to Zurich

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From Tour of the Alps 2014 We woke up to cloudy skies to the East and sunshine to the West, so it was a good thing that we were going...
Monday, August 18, 2014

July 19th: Hotel Posthaus Urigen to Reuti

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From Tour of the Alps 2014 Our bottle of hydration drink was down to so little that everything fit into a spare ziplock bag, so I dis...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

July 18th: Bludenz to Hotel Posthaus, Urigen

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Early this morning, I gave Arturo a choice: we could take the train to Sargans, and do the Wallensee ride to Linthal and then Klausen pass...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

July 17th: Ramosch to Bludenz

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We got on the road early in the morning in the shade, and while it was a little cool, I soon took off my jacket despite being in the shade...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Review: Super-Powereds: Year 2

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After I got home, I checked out Super-Powereds: Year 2 from the Kindle lending library, since I enjoyed Year 1 . Like its predecessor, Ye...