Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Review: Lucifer Book 3

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Lucifer Book 3 resolves the story of what happened in hell after Lucifer abandoned it. We get a glimpse of hell, as well as Lucifer's pl...
Monday, February 27, 2017

In Memoriam: Sweesam Na 1942-2017

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My father was born in Gerisek, Malaysia, a kampong (village). He was in a family of 7, and his own father died while he was very young. Stor...

Review: Nemesis Games

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Nemesis Games is the 5th book in the Expanse series. It's the first novel in the series that doesn't standalone. You could presumab...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Review: Pediatrics Grand Rounds (Medical School for Everyone Series)

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Parenting books are mostly extremely badly written. But Dr. Roy Benaroch is a real doctor (a practicing pediatrician) and I enjoyed the Emer...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Review: Your Best Brain - The Science of Brain Development

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I'm a sucker for anything by John Medina, so when I saw that he actually had a Great Courses program called Your Best Brain , I picked i...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Review: Lucifer Book 2

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In the previous book, Lucifer managed to create an entire new multi-verse out of the current Cosmos. In Lucifer Book 2 , the repercussions o...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Review: Cibola Burn

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Cibola Burn is the 4th Expanse novel. In the third novel, James Holden manages to open up the star gate through which other systems can be ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Review: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition

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How to Listen to and Understand Great Music is misnamed. It really should be labeled: The structure and form of Western Music. I don't ...
Monday, February 06, 2017

Review: Lucifer Book 1

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Lucifer is a spin-off off of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. In that book, Lucifer gives up his reign in hell and decides to retire to Earth to ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Review: The Undoing Project

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The Undoing Project is a biography of the relationship between Dan Kahneman and Amos Tversky,  Kahneman, of course, was the Nobel Prize win...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Review: Abaddon's Gate

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I think I've figured out how to read The Expanse series of novels, of which Abaddon's Gate is the third novel. It is also clearly a...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Video Game Reviews

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Gears of War 4 (PC) Enemy Unknown Plus (PS Vita) Tearaway Unfolded (PS4) Skyforce Anniversary  (PS4, PS3, PS Vita) Uncharted: The Lost...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Review: Seveneves

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Seveneves is Neal Stephenson's book about planetary disaster. The premise behind the book is that an unknown agent bursts the moon into...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Review: Packable Handy Hiking Backpack

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When I travel, I frequently have to tote along my CPAP machine in a shoulder bag. On top of that, sometimes I have to tote along a child in...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Review: Batman - Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

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For whatever reason, I missed Neil Gaiman's What Happened to the Caped Crusader when it first came out. Turns out I didn't miss muc...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Review: The Gene - An Intimate History

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Every so often you'll read something about how genome sequencing has gotten cheaper, or how genetic engineering has led to a breakthroug...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Review: Gears of War 4 (PC)

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Over the last few years, Microsoft's been increasingly making rational business decisions. One of the less seemingly rational ones, howe...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Review: Laser Maze Jr Logic Game

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Laser Maze Jr is a puzzle game (like Rush Hour) that features a laser built into the board, 3 obstacles, 2 rocket ship targets, 5 satellite...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Review: Batman and Psychology - A Dark and Stormy Knight

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There was an audible 2-for-1 promotion that included Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight .If anyone's going to have psycholo...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Review: Rush Hour Jr

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I saw a copy of Rush Hour Jr for sale during the holidays and grabbed it, having had fun memories of the original, adult version. The game ...