Thursday, March 30, 2017

Review: Playstation 4 Platinum Wireless Headset

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I have a 5.1 surround system attached to the Playstation 4 , but sometimes, it's just not practical to use it. When Amazon had a lightni...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Review: Babylon's Ashes

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Babylon's Ashes is the 6th "Expanse" novel. The previous novel, Nemesis Games , ended in a bad place, with the plot hanging i...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Review: Now - The Physics of Time

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I'd previously audited Mysteries of Modern Physics - Time and found it interesting. Then I watched Arrival and it sparked a discussion...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Review: Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases

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I really enjoyed all the " Medical School for Everyone " series from the Great Courses, so I was happy to add Grand Rounds Cases ...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Review: Hanes Men's Ultimate X-Temp Lightweight Performance Boxer Brief

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For the longest time, my go-to brand for travel underwear was Ex-Officio . The fabric is very breathable, dries quickly, and lightweight. Yo...
Friday, March 10, 2017

You know you're a nerd parent when....

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All the other kids start counting from one, and your kid's counting from zero, because that's how programming languages usually st...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

Review: Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality

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I enjoyed the previous Great Courses work by Robert Sapolsky that I audited, so I picked up Biology and Human Behavior . I feel like the su...
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...