Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Japan 2016 Index

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For this year's Spring Break, we opted to visit Japan. Since we had to orient around Bowen's school schedule, we weren't able ...
Monday, May 02, 2016

Review: Hitman GO (Android)

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I don't usually play Android games, but Hitman GO was an exception and well worth it. I never played any of the Hitman series, but that...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

Review: WingZ

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I was a big fan of WingZ for a couple of rides. The service lets you book a trip to the airport, minus the hassle of ride shares like Super ...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Review: Matterhorn

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My standard for Vietnam War books is The Things They Carried , by Tim O'Brien. But Matterhorn might very well replace that. Matterhorn ...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Review: Beyond the Tiger Mom

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Most parenting books are a joke, especially ones like Beyond the Tiger Mom . They ignore statistics, don't examine best practices from r...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Review: The Grace of Kings

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I'm a huge fan of Ken Liu's short stories. The guy's pretty much managed to win an award with every story he published, and dese...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Review: Sapiens - A Brief History

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Knowing that I was heading off for Japan, I picked up a couple of books during an Amazon digital sale. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Review: Amplitude (PS4)

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I backed Amplitude (PS4) as a kickstarter project despite having no prior experience with the PS2 game. I guess the Harmonix name on the st...
Friday, April 08, 2016

Review: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

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There's something extraordinary about the British Empire. If you look at a world map, and visit England, you can't help but wonder h...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Review: The Sculptor

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The Sculptor is Scott McCloud's graphic novel about art, young love, and a deal with death. The protagonist is David Smith, who has a m...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Review: Call of Juarez Gunslinger (PC)

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The best thing about the PC platform is that games are cheap. I picked up Call of Juarez Gunslinger as part of an Origin sale. I'd pick...
Monday, April 04, 2016

Review: The Hunt for Vulcan

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The Hunt for Vulcan is a short book about the supplantation of Newtonian Mechanics by the general theory of relativity. Unlike books that a...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Review: The Idea Factory

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The Idea Factory is Jon Gertner's abbreviated history of Bell Labs. I use the term abbreviated, because Bell Labs was so huge that ther...
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'...