Monday, January 25, 2016

Review: Blood of Elves

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Blood of Elves is the third book in the witcher series, but the first novel. The previous 2 books were essentially series of short stories....
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Review: Sword of Destiny

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I was playing The Witcher 3 on the PS4 , It's an exceedingly good RPG (and I'd actually avoided RPGs in recent years as they tend t...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Review: Wormhole

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Wormhole is the last book of the Rho Agenda trilogy. Like the Saturday morning cartoons it's modeled after, it's a novel with 3 teen...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Review: Focus - The Hidden Driver of Excellence

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Focus is, ironically enough, a singularly unfocused book. I checked it out of the library because I thought it would cover the mechanical a...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

New thoughts on gearing

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For years, I resisted switching from 8-speeds to 9-speeds. I wasn't willing to upgrade until 9-speeds had become reliable (early 9-speed...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Review: Pirate Hunters

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I picked up Pirate Hunters as an audio book because it was listed as one of the "best of the year" on Audible. I wish I'd rea...
Friday, January 08, 2016

Review: My Beloved World

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My Beloved World is Sonia Sotomayor's memoir. Sotomayor was the first Hispanic (and 3rd woman) ever to be appointed to the Supreme Cour...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

Review: Soldner-X 2: Final Prototype (PS Vita)

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I doubt if my son will ever look fondly back at the side-scrolling shooter as a genre. I didn't think I looked back at that genre fondly...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Little Boys Are So Sensitive

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In most human cultures, the males of the species are supposed to be tough. But of course, little kids, including boys, just aren't that ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Review: Until Dawn (PS4)

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Until Dawn is that rarest of games: under-hyped, under-promised, and over-delivered. Here are the following checkmarks against it: It be...
Monday, January 04, 2016

Review: Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science

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Being Human is quite unlike any audio course/audio book I've heard. Rather than a deep dive into a scientific topic, it's a mish-ma...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

A Return to Mountain Biking

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I gave up mountain biking for several years. Part of it was my move to Munich  (and subsequent move back) drove me to simplify the bike load...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

6 Months Report: Learning the Flute

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I had a couple of goals when learning to play the flute . The first was to see how hard it really was to learn an instrument. The convention...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Review: T-mobile Cell Spot

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I've discovered that my favorite way of making and receiving phone calls is with the SBH-52 . This lets me be completely hands-free, ena...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Review: The One That Got Away

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The One That Got Away is a novel along the lines of The Silence of The Lambs . The story revolves around Zoe, who'd escaped from a seri...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

2016 Video Game Reviews

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This is my collection of video game reviews for 2016 Her Story (PC) Little Big Planet 3 (PS4) Until Dawn (PS4) Soldner-X (PS Vita) T...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Review: Her Story (PC)

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I try not to play games on the PC: it's difficult to play because I get distracted by e-mail and other work. The high resolution and clo...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Review:Terms of Use

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Terms of Use is a thriller about social networks. It's written by a Silicon Valley journalist, which means that it makes use of several...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Review: Sandman Overture

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Sandman Overture is the prequel to Sandman, and takes place just before Preludes & Nocturnes . The story involves a potentially univers...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Review: The Addictive Brain

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The Addictive Brain is an audio course about how addiction works, how it affects the brain chemistry (and why addiction occurs) and (to a l...