Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Power Tools for Home Use

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Once you become a home owner, you end up with lots of little jobs that you have to work on that are too small to call a handyman for, and to...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Review: Able Brewing Disk for Aeropress

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Steve Grimm raved about the Able Brewing Disk for Aeropress , and I liked the idea of  not using disposable paper filters for each cup of ...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Video Games

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After playing through a series of video games, I'm realizing a few things about video games if you're a time-pressed adult. The firs...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Review: Killzone 3

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Since I was so surprisingly engrossed in Killzone Mercenary , I decided to pick up the Killzone Trilogy . If this was a novel series, you...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Review: True Romance

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Somehow, I missed True Romance when it first came out in the theaters, and when I saw that Amazon was having a sale on a Quentin Tarantino ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Review: Indie Game The Movie

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I will admit that I know Jon Blow, one of the 3 game developers featured on Indie Game , and that was one of the draws of the movie to me. T...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Vanguard's Unique Corporate Structure

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One thing I've come to realize over and over again, is that very few people understand what makes Vanguard such a unique company. Some ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Review: Windows 8.1 Pro

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A couple of years ago, I upgraded my desktop top Windows 8 Pro . Just a few months later, the machine corrupted its own hard drive, but I wa...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Review: Gobble Dinner Service

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In the past, there's  been plenty of food startups, from kitchit to gastronauts . None of them have addressed what I consider the best ...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Review: Locked In

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Locked In is John Scalzi's latest novel. It's a quick fun read, and not very deep, but a good example of how a good science fiction...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Siren Song of Real Estate

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I'm constantly astounded by how frequently people tout real estate as a great investment. Take a look at this example from Quora, for i...
Friday, September 19, 2014

School vaccination rates

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When I was touring pre-schools, I was concerned about the levels of immunization in California. Every time I asked a school principal about ...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Exploitation

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Google, Intel and Apple are appealing Lucy Koh's rejection of their settlement about the anti-poaching case. It's very hard to get ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Review: Airscape Coffee container

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I'm too lazy to grind coffee, so tend to buy Costco's Peet's pre-ground coffee at 36 ounces for $13. But I don't drink more...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Health Scare

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In late May, on my regular physical, my doctor looked at my family history and decided to do an a1c check.   To my dismay, it came in at 6.1...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Review: Tunnel Vision

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Tunnel Vision is Aric Davis' follow up to his novel, Nickel Plated . The character of Nickel was so compelling that when I saw it on th...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Review: Logitech M570 Trackball

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After my Google ergonomic review, I switched to the Logitech Trackman wired trackball for my mousing needs. I switched to it everywhere. Al...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Review: Aeropress

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I've been making coffee by using a #4 cone filter inside a stainless steel funnel. But everyone kept talking about how much better coffe...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Review: Magnector X vs E-Prance

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The Xperia phones look nice and work as well as I expected, but nightly charging required that you pry off the micro-USB flap and then snap...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Review: Geigerrig 1210 Hyrdration Pack

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I actually prefer water bottles to hydration packs most of the time. In particular, when cycling, carrying anything on your back is just ask...