Thursday, March 31, 2016

Review: Airborne Seeker Mountain Bike

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Now that I've ridden my Airborne Seeker enough to approach one maintenance cycle, I feel like I can write a review of the bike and do i...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Review: Producing Excellence

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If you're a parent in the middle class, you've probably read countless parenting books. Most of them are prescriptive, telling you w...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Borken Spoke

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After approximately 10 years and 30,000 miles, on a descent of Page Mill Road , I heard a "twang" sound and heard the sound of m...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Review: Thing Explainer

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After What if? , I had high hopes for Thing Explainer . This is a large format book, best read on paper: do not buy the Kindle edition, as i...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Review: The Half-Life of Facts

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I picked up The Half-Life of Facts hoping to get some insight. There's an old joke (repeated in this book) that the medical school exam...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Review: Mysteries of Modern Physics - Time

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I started auditing the Great Courses Physics series on Time by Sean Carroll on a whim. Carroll is a physics professor at Caltech, and a gr...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Review: Rise of the Tomb Raider (PC)

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2013's Tomb Raider Reboot was a great game, and while I was a little disappointed that the sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider wouldn'...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Review: The Intelligent Brain

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I'm of two minds about Great Courses' The Intelligent Brain .On the one hand, the first 10 lectures of this 18 part series is great,...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Review: Dark Intelligence

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Dark Intelligence is Neal Asher's new Polity novel, set after the Polity/Prador wars of the " Gridlinked " novels. True to fo...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Review: Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive

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Invariably, whenever I read or review a book on parenting, the comparison is to John Medina's Brain Rules for Baby , and the comparison ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Review: The Rosie Effect

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The Rosie Project was a delightful novel, so much so that I immediately placed a hold on the sequel, The Rosie Effect at the library. The ...
Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Review: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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One chapter in Peopleware that always resonates in my mind is the chapter on "Spanish Theory Management": Some years ago I was s...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

Review: Nalgene ATB Bottle

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The last couple of months of mountain biking has been great. I've gone from being terrified to being able to do 2-3 foot drops and jumps...
Wednesday, February 03, 2016

Review: The Time of Contempt

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As mentioned in yesterday's review of The Witcher 3 , the video game in this case is much better than the source material. I picked up T...
Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Review: Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PS4)

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In recent years, I'd pretty much given up on CRPGs as a genre. They pose multiple problems from my point of view: The typical CRPG ...
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...