Monday, November 30, 2015

First Impressions: Sensi UP500W WiFi Programmable Thermostat

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I had a Hunter 44860 Thermostat that had been going strong for ages. While my wife repeatedly complained about the programming UI, the chea...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Review: Little Big Planet 3 (PS 4)

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I rarely review video games that I don't finish, but I was so close to finishing the main story in Little Big Planet 3 that I'll ma...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Triplet Update

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It's been a while since our last Triplet updat e.  Since our late summer misunderstanding , Bowen and I have been riding to school nearl...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Review: Mind Dimensions Books 0, 1, 2

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I'm a sucker for deals, and when I saw Mind Dimensions 0, 1, 2  on sale for $0.99, I picked it up and gave it a shot. Indie books aren...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Santa Cruz Factory Demo

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It's been a while since I did any mountain biking, and while searching for a mountain bike rental place near Wilder Ranch in Santa Cruz,...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Review: Hi-Float Balloon Treatment

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When organizing a kid's birthday party, you pretty much need balloons. It costs about $24 to get a helium tank and a bunch of balloons....
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Review: Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game

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Bowen's finally getting around to doing addition in school. Geek that I am, I decided that the best way of reinforcing that is to get hi...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Games of the Year 2015

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2015 wasn't as good a year as 2014 for games. Part of that was because in 2014 I was catching up on years and years of backlog, which me...
Monday, November 16, 2015

First Impressions, Motorola Moto G (3rd Generation)

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Never plug your phone into an untested charger that's not made by the OEM. I learned the hard way when I plugged my phone into a newly b...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Books of the Year 2015

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I read 65 books this year, which surprised me because I didn't think I was reading that many. As usual, the non-fiction books leave a mu...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Review: Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in SIlicon Valley and Route 128

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Silicon Valley detractors are fond of saying that in this day of easy internet collaboration, video conferencing, and telepresence robots, S...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Review: Sigma Sport BC5.12 Bike Computer

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I decided that it would be fun to stick a bike computer on Bowen's bike . GPS units are now so cheap you can get the Pyle Bike Computer ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Review: The Second Ship

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The Second Ship is the first book in The Rho Agenda trilogy. Given that it's in the Prime Lending Library, it was no effort for me to c...
Monday, November 09, 2015

Misunderstandings

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A few funny misunderstandings between Bowen and I this summer. At the end of the summer holidays, I was worried that Bowen wouldn't w...
Friday, November 06, 2015

Review: Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

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After reading the magnificent A Spy Among Friends, I checked out Double Cross from the library, hoping for repeated success. I was disappoi...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

Review: Ex Machina

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I don't usually review movies on this blog, but I'll make an exception for Ex Machina , a delightful science fiction movie about AI ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Review: The Last Child in The Woods

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I really wanted to like The Last Child in The Woods . I grew up in Singapore, in a city where door-to-door inspections have eliminated the A...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

ANT+ vs BTLE

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I had no idea that ANT+ vs BTLE was politically charged until I continually ran across people online who were "anything but Garmin...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Review: Year's Best SF 10

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I checked out Year's Best SF 10 froom the library prior to a trip, but read it mostly because all the stories in it were new to me. The...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Review: Lightroom 6

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I actually upgraded to Lightroom 6 a while back, but waited until I did a couple of trips with large amounts of photography before writing ...