Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Review: Internet and Fax 56K USB Modem (Sewell)

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I know: you're thinking that Piaw has finally taken this "retro-grouch" thing too far. Sure, my phone's from 2015, and my ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Review: Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine

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I picked up Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine thinking that it'll be a boring litany of cases of what you need to go to t...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Review: Moonwalking with Einstein

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Moonwalking with Einstein is Joshua Foer's memoir of his experience going from a journalist covering the world memory championships to ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Review: Nutrition Made Clear

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You probably already know everything that's in the course, Nutrition Made Clear . For instance, In Defense of Food , summarized everythi...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Review: Madame Xanadu Vol 1 - Disenchanted

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I saw Madame Xanadu: Disenchanted at the used book stack for $2 at the library, and when I saw the Matt Wagner by-line, I immediately picke...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Video Games of the Year 2016

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I didn't get around to too many video game s this year, but by far the best was The Witcher 3 . Lovingly produced, tons of content, and ...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Books of the Year 2016

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This year I read a total of 59 books, with audio books helping out in a big way, getting me more material to read while my hands can do some...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Review: Eccentric Orbits

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I picked up Eccentric Orbits after learning that there was a book about the Iridium satellite system. I'd always thought that the syste...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

First Impressions: Woom 3

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It was inevitable: Bowen outgrew his Woom 2 , and we had to buy him a bigger bicycle. The Woom 3 was the natural choice: I briefly did some ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Review: Hard Choices (Audio Book)

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Hard Choices is Hilary Clinton's memoir of her time as the Secretary of State for the USA. It's a long book --- I started listening...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Review: The Stinky and Dirty Show

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I don't usually review TV shows, but The Stinky and Dirty Show has captured Bowen, and I'm not horribly unhappy about that, so I fi...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Review: Brasscraft BC260

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One penalty of living in an old house like mine is that the kitchen sink clogs up about twice a year. I got fed up of paying the plumber to ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Review: JavaScript: The Good Parts

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While building my Shared Checklist application, I learned JavaScript mostly by reading examples on the web as well as a library copy of Jav...
Wednesday, November 09, 2016

Building Shared Checklist (Part 2): The Web Application

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After the Android App was done, I turned my attention to building a web application. There were several motivations for this: first, I do en...
Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Building Shared Checklists (Part 1): The Android App

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After determining that there's no app that did what I wanted, I decided to create Shared Checklists , which was an Android app that does...
Monday, November 07, 2016

Texting and Parenting

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I've discovered that I'm getting less and less enamored of texting as a communications medium whenever I have to spend time with my ...
Friday, November 04, 2016

Review: BLU R1 HD 16GB Prime Exclusive Smartphone

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I had an App project that required 2 phones to test, and I was looking to buy the cheapest Android phone for testing. Amazon offered the BL...
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Review: PRO BIKE TOOL Mini Bike Pump

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For my mountain bike, I decided that the Topeak Morph pump was too big, and I wanted something smaller. Since mountain bikes don't go to...
Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Review: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Great Courses)

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The subtitle to the Great Courses's video series for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is "Techniques for Retraining Your Brain." ...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Return to the Santa Cruz Factory Demo

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It's been a year since my last Santa Cruz Factory Demo, and I've had enough riding under my belt on my mountain bike that it was w...