Saturday, December 06, 2014

2015 Video Game Reviews

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This is the index for video game played and reviewed in 2015. I picked Games of the Year for 2015 in November. Injustice: Gods Among Us...

Review: Injustice: Gods Among Us

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I picked up Injustice: Gods Among Us for the Vita during a Sony sale for $4.20. As luck would have it, in January, that's going to be ...
Friday, December 05, 2014

Review: Hide Me Among The Graves

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Hide Me Among The Graves is Tim Powers' sequel to the superb The Stress of Her Regard . While the latter featured Byron, Keats, and She...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Re-read: The Stress of Her Regard

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I've long considered The Stress of Her Regard to be Tim Powers' best novel. However, I read it about 20 years ago, and for the lon...
Friday, November 14, 2014

2015 Book Reviews

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Note: Books of the Year for 2015 have been selected. Fiction On Stranger Tides The Stress of Her Regard Hide Me Among The Graves The...

Review: On Stranger Tides

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On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers' pirate novel. While it was optioned as a novel for Disney's Pirates of the Carribean movie with t...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Video Games of the Year

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For those who are unfamiliar with this blog, I have an annual tradition of picking out the best books I've read over the previous year....
Monday, November 10, 2014

Books of the Year 2014

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I read 31 books this year (not counting comic books, magazines, etc), which was unusually low. Part of this was that a portion of my time w...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

Review: Life with a fire-breathing girlfriend

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Sometimes, I buy a book after reading just one review and a sample because the premise had so much promise. I almost always regret this, but...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Review: The Magician's Land

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The Magician's Land is Lev Grossman's third novel in the series starring Quentin Coldwater, a wizard who went to school in the magi...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

First Impressions: Sony Playstation 4

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My brothers got me a PS4 for my birthday, so here are my first impressions. The first thing I did after unboxing the unit was to install an...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Review: Resogun

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My brothers gave me a PS4 on my birthday, so the first thing I did was to download and fire up Resogun . I wasn't able to get into Hous...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Review: Binary Domain

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I started playing Binary Domain by accident. I was playing Killzone 2 and getting frustrated at one stage. That's the fault of the fir...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Review: The Flash Boys

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Books about Wall Street have a way of being incredibly depressing. For instance, Elizabeth Warren's story about fighting Wall Street ha...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Review: The Inquisitor's Apprentice

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I loved Chris Moriarty's Spin State , Spin Control , and Ghost Spin , so when I saw that she'd written a series of young adult books...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Review: Powerstation PSX-3 Jumpstarter/Air Compressor

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My old cheapo tire inflator bit the dust, and I wanted a better unit. I figured that I might as well get one that could jump start a car as ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Review: Hario Mini Mill

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Lots of people raved to me about the benefits of grinding your own coffee from coffee beans rather than buying pre-ground coffee. It sounded...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Review: The Dark Defiles

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The Dark Defiles is the final book of Richard Morgan's fantasy trilogy that started with The Steel Remains and The Cold Commands . I...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Review: Africa

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It is no secret that if you want to use your HDTV to the max, you attach a blu-ray player to it and then play one of BBC's nature docu...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Trains for Toddlers

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Bowen is a train fanatic. He says so himself, and I'm not sure I can disagree. The big problem with train sets is that there's an an...